A delayed healing as compared to that in the conventional scalpel techniques, a reduced surgical precision which results in an inadvertent laser-induced thermal necrosis and/or a photo acoustic injury, are some of the complications which are associated with lasers. The application of diode and Er:YAG lasers [6] in labial frenectomies in infants and Er,Cr:YSGG lasers [7] in labial frenectomies in the adolescent and the pre-pubescent populations have also been reported