photobiomodulation in oral medicine

Biophotonics which talks about interaction between electromagnetic radiation and biological ‎materials has various areas of application including medicine. diagnosis and therapy of ‎different diseases are among its new applications. oral diseases are common both ‎individually and as a part of various systemic disease and syndromes. the lack of effective ‎therapies for the treatment of various types of oral diseases or the presence of invasive ‎therapeutic methods along with the use of a wide range of medications has had a significant ‎impact on the quality of life of these patients.‎photobiomodulation therapy (pbmt) as a non-invasive and non-drug method can play ‎an influential role in the treatment of oral diseases due to its anti-inflammatory, metabolic, ‎immunologic and analgesic effects. it can be considered as a kind of interaction between ‎light with low energy density and tissue cells without thermal effects due to photon beam ‎exposure.‎in recent years, photobiomodulation therapy (pbmt) has played a more significant ‎role in in-vitro and in vivo studies related to oral medicine. oral lichen planus, recurrent ‎aphthous stomatitis, hyposalivation, pemphigus vulgaris, bullous pemphigoid, recurrent ‎herpes simplex, burning mouth syndrome, medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaws, ‎trigeminal neuralgia, facial nerve paralysis, geographic tongue and chronic sinusitis are ‎some of the oral diseases in which laser therapy has been studied as a therapeutic method. ‎however, since well-designed studies with sufficient case numbers are not still enough to ‎reach precise management protocols, and the heterogenicity of their results, we need more ‎clinical trials to be done.‎