The Ezlase laser was created by BIOLASE with one objective in mind: to make soft tissue procedures easier for dentists and more comfortable for patients.

Ezlase is fundamentally transforming the way patients experience their dental visits.

• Laser soft tissue curettage
• Laser removal of diseased, infected, inflamed and necrosed soft tissue within the periodontal pocket
• Sulcular debridement (removal of diseased, infected, inflamed and necrosed soft tissue in the periodontal pocket to improve clinical indices including gingival index, gingival bleeding index, probe depth, attachment loss and tooth mobility.)

In addition to improved quality of treatment for various procedures, the biggest benefit noted by Clear Creek Dental Clinic patients in the past has been its use to treat cold sores. When used on a cold sore within the first 1-3 days (the sooner the better), the discomfort and healing time is greatly reduced. Some of my patients have even noticed a decrease in the recurrence rate of the sores.
The Ezlase does this by heating the skin in the area of the developing sore. This dries out the skin as well as killing off some of the virus and infected skin cells. The result is skipping past the itchy blistering stage of the sore to the scabbing healing stage of the sore. By reducing the time of the blistering stage, this helps to decrease the potential spread of the virus causing the sore, to surrounding areas.
Additionally, with using the laser to remove various lumps, or reshape gum tissue around erupting wisdom teeth, etc. patients have noticed decreased discomfort compared to more traditional techniques. This is primarily due to the ability of the laser to help a "scab" form on the surface where more traditional techniques would be leaving raw skin exposed, or would have required stitches.