Exploring the use of pulsed erbium lasers to retrieve a zirconia crown from a zirconia implant abutment

• Ahmed Elkharashi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Kinga Grzech-Leśniak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Janina Golob Deeb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Aous A. 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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• Sompop Bencharit

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, 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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