Diode lasers are portable, accessible, efficient and reliable surgical units for performing surgeries and soft tissue biopsies of the oral cavity. The newer units are equipped with micro and super pulsed technologies and systems that allow the selection of different usage parameters in terms of emission mode, duty cycle, power and pulse duration. It is, however, not known which parameters or types of diode lasers produce the most intact tissue samples in the best possible surgical time. The main objective of this ex vivo study was to compare the thermal damage and the excision time of different parameters of the micro pulsed diode laser and the super pulsed diode laser. The secondary objectives were: 1) to provide practical recommendations ...