著者

大城 貴史 大城 俊夫 佐々木 克己

出版者

日本レーザー歯学会

雑誌

日本レーザー歯学会誌 (ISSN:09177450)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.1, pp.27-31, 2016-04-01 (Released:2016-06-04)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

2 2

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Photoactivation, also known as photobiomodulation, is recognized as one effect of laser/tissue interactions. This phenomenon, which is induced by low-level laser irradiation, was reported by Mester in the late 1960s. The therapeutic method with photoactivation was defined as low-reactive level laser therapy (LLLT) by Ohshiro in 1988. Today, various clinical applications using LLLT have been reported in the field of wound healing, pain attenuation, musculoskeletal injuries and so on.This introductory review covers the fundamentals of laser/tissue interactions and the basic mechanism of photoactivation to provide a better understanding of LLLT for wound healing.