BIOLASE Waterlase Dental Laser Featured On
MSNBC, New York and Los Angeles TV Newscasts and On The Cover of Dentistry
Today
BIOLASE Technology, announced that its Millennium Hydrokinetic®
dental laser was featured on a television news magazine story on Pain-Free
Dentistry on MSNBC's "Weekend Magazine with Stone Phillips" on April 1-2,
2000. The segment on Pain-Free Dentistry was reported by Dr. Bob Arnot and
was aired numerous times during the weekend of April 1-2. Dr. Arnot is NBC's
chief medical correspondent and Stone Phillips is a principal anchor of Dateline
NBC and the anchor for Weekend Magazine on MSNBC.
The segment focused on the fears that many people have about visiting the
dentist. It began with the comment, "It's right up there at the top of the of things
most of us hate -- going to the dentist. If it's not the sound of the drill that gives
you the chills, maybe it's the needle. With an estimated 100 million cavities
getting drilled, and filled, every year, you'd think dentists would come up with a
better -- less painful -- way. Well, maybe someone has."
Dr. Arnot and his camera crew visited a dental office offering pain-free
procedures to film lasers removing decay without any anesthesia. He
interviewed Dr. Ed Romano, his 9 year old patient and the patient's mother. Dr.
Arnot explained that "Everyone knows the grinding sound of the dental drill.
Metal, moving at a speed of 250,000 RPMs cuts into the tooth and decay.
Because of the power and vibration, it can cause discomfort, especially if it hits
a nerve. Novocain is highly recommended."
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Dr. Arnot asked Dr. Romano, "So is it really, zap you're in, and zap you're out --
no swelling, no numbness, no pain?" Dr. Romano responded, "In 98 percent of
the cases, yes." Following his treatment of the 9 year old female patient, Dr. Romano commented, "I think she did great. I think if I did the same thing with the drill, she wouldn't be smiling right now." |
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During the segment, Dr. Arnot noted that "Clinical studies reviewed by the FDA
show these lasers to be safe and as effective as the drill." He also added that
during the procedures at Dr. Romano's office "There were no needles, only
goggles." BIOLASE obtained its first clearance for hard tissue procedures (cutting
enamel, dentin and caries) for the Millennium Hydrokinetic® Hard and Soft
Tissue laser in October of 1998. Subsequent clearances were obtained in 1999
allowing BIOLASE to market the Millennium® for use with children and all
classes (I-V) of cavity preparations.
More TV News
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- BIOLASE Technology, Inc.
(Nasdaq: BLTI - news), a medical and dental technology company, saw its
revolutionary Waterlase dental laser featured on New York's Fox News
Channel 5 on February 5, 2001. The Waterlase will also be featured on Los
Angeles' CBS Channel 2 later in February during sweeps weekend and on the
morning show of the Los Angeles Fox affiliate, also in February. The New York
Fox News program, "No Drill Dentistry," focused on using the Waterlase hard-
and soft-tissue laser for dental procedures without having to use the drill,
needles or anesthesia.
"We are thrilled that such prominent media in major markets continue to feature
our breakthrough Waterlase technology for no-pain dental procedures. While
acceptance of Waterlase in the dental community continues to rapidly increase,
programs such as these on Fox and CBS are a powerful form of free advertising
to spread the news about this incredible technology to the general public,"
noted Jeffrey W. Jones, BIOLASE president and CEO.
Waterlase laser for painless dentistry were featured on the cover of the
January Dentistry Today 2001 Annual Equipment Buyers Guide.
Publication of the magazine's cover story coincided with a BIOLASE
conference in Dana Point, California, for an international group of approximately
100 people who heard reports on a variety of clinical applications of the
Waterlase.
The Waterlase hard-and soft-tissue dental laser is a revolutionary technology
that painlessly cuts hard tissue, such as teeth, and removes cavities and soft
tissue with little or no pain in most cases. Waterlase combines laser energy
with water, turning a water stream into energized water droplets that cut
precisely without overheating, thus eliminating potential for heat-related tissue
damage.
Dentistry Today recognized the importance of this new technology, which is
gaining adherents around the country and around the world, several of whom
attended the BIOLASE conference from January 19-20. Dentistry Today is
received monthly by more than 140,000 dentists in the U.S. and another 10,000
overseas.
Federico Pignatelli, chairman of BIOLASE, said, "We were delighted by
Dentistry Today's report and extremely gratified by its recognition of our unique
and successful Waterlase technology. To have it on the cover of this important
dental publication at the same time as our First Annual Waterlase User's
Conference was a remarkable coincidence and, I'm sure, was also exciting for
the large number of dentists who went to considerable expense and time to
travel from around the world to participate. The high quality of the presentations
and clinical results that Waterlase users are experiencing with this technology
created a most successful event."
In another
news story, Gerhard Will, DDS, published and renowned worldwide and Chief Editor of the Laser Journal - Germany, commented on the impact of the
Waterlase, "For ten years of watching lasers in dentistry, we have waited for an effective hard and soft tissue laser. The wait is over, the Waterlase is an important milestone for dentistry. Congratulations to
BIOLASE!"
Laser use in endodontics (root canals).