**Author details**

Dragana Gabrić1\*, Anja Baraba2 , Goran Batinjan1 , Marko Blašković<sup>1</sup> , Vanja Vučićević Boras<sup>3</sup> , Irina Filipović Zore<sup>1</sup> , Ivana Miletić<sup>2</sup> and Elizabeta Gjorgievska4

\*Address all correspondence to: dgabric@sfzg.hr

1 Department of Oral Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb; University Dental Clinic, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

2 Department of Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb; University Dental Clinic, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

3 Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb; University

Dental Clinic, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

4 Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Skopje, Macedonia

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Laser technology has made rapid progress over the past decades, and lasers have found a niche in many surgical specialties. Because of their many advantages, lasers have become indispen‐ sable in OMS as a additional modality for soft and hard tissue surgery. There are many uses for lasers in OMS, and the advent of new wavelengths will undoubtedly lead to new proce‐ dures that can be performed with laser technology. Practitioners should seek novel clinical approaches with a sound scientific basis. Despite the enthusiastic acceptance of this technology by professionals and the public, further research, including controlled clinical studies, to

investigate the higher efficacy, as well as side effects of laser therapy, are still needed.

*"The medical application of the laser is fascinating for two reasons. It is an optimistic mission, on the one hand, while on the other it counteracts the original impression of the*

The authors are grateful to Fotona D.D. for technical support. We would like to thank our clinical photographers Mirjana Krajačić and Darije Petolas, and especially all employees of the Department of Oral Surgery and Department of Oral Medicine, School of Dental Medicine,

and Elizabeta Gjorgievska4

1 Department of Oral Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb; University

2 Department of Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb; University Dental Clinic, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb,

, Marko Blašković<sup>1</sup>

, Vanja Vučićević Boras<sup>3</sup>

,

, Goran Batinjan1

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**Author details**

Irina Filipović Zore<sup>1</sup>

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\*Address all correspondence to: dgabric@sfzg.hr

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