0973-7510 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2581-690X DR. M.N. Khan 10.22207/JPAM.13.1.71 Clinical Assessment of Anti-inflammatory Activity of 940 Nanometer Low Level laser Therapy on Carrageenan Induced Arthritis in Temporomandibular Joint in Wistar Albino Rats Al-Khassaki Ali Imad Noori Ahmed Jamal Department of oral diagnosis, College of Dentistry, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq. 11 02 2019 13 1 619 628 Copyright © 2019 The Author(s) 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible anti-inflammatory effect of 940nm diode laser in treating carrageenan induced arthritis in temporomandibular joint in Wistar albino rats, using different energy density of LLLT, by clinical assessment of the inflammation. it was concluded that 74J/cm2 LLLT had very efficient in edema reduction and restore function with good anti-inflammatory effect, on the other hand 171J/cm2 had appear to be in or near the borderline between non-thermal and thermal lasers eradiation in considering to Westar rat skin.

Keywords Anti-inflammatory activity Temporomandibular joint Wistar albino