Soft tissue incision with 940 nm Gallium Aluminum Arsenide diode laser, at implant recovery settings (2.5 W output power, average power: 1.25 W, pulse length : 1.00 ms, pulse interval: 1.00 ms) in second-stage implant surgery.

Soft tissue incision with 2780 nm Er,Cr:YSGG laser, at implant recovery settings (2.00 W power, 100 Hz, H mode, 10% water and 10% air) in second-stage implant surgery.

Exposure of the cover screw of osseointegrated dental implants embedded under oral mucosa by performing the soft tissue incision with diode laser for placing the healing abutment.

Patients score pain intensity with numeric scale ranging between 0(no pain) to 10(most severe pain) on the postoperative 1st day. Pain scores on the postoperative 1st day in each group are compared.

Patients score pain intensity with numeric scale ranging between 0(no pain) to 10(most severe pain) on the postoperative 2nd day. Pain scores on the postoperative 2nd day in each group are compared.

Patients score pain intensity with numeric scale ranging between 0(no pain) to 10(most severe pain) on the postoperative 3rd day. Pain scores on the postoperative 3rd day in each group are compared.

Analgesic consumption per day on postoperative 1st, 2nd and 3rd days.

Bleeding during surgical procedure was scored by the physician as 1=minimal, 2=normal and 3=excessive bleeding