Using Er:YAG laser to remove lithium disilicate crowns from zirconia implant abutments: An in vitro study

• Janina Golob Deeb ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janina Golob Deeb, Kinga Grzech-Leśniak

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Periodontics, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3189-0136

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• Sompop Bencharit ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sbencharit@vcu.edu

  Affiliations Department of General Practice, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1209-9362

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• Nishchal Dalal,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Aous Abdulmajeed,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Practice, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Kinga Grzech-Leśniak

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janina Golob Deeb, Kinga Grzech-Leśniak

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

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