After 34 years in practice, Dr. Marano opens with a simple challenge: whatever you think your practice is capable of, think bigger. His talk makes the case that the 9.3-micron CO₂ laser isn't an incremental upgrade, it's a different category of tool, one that cuts hard and soft tissue with almost no bleeding and, in most cases, no anesthesia at all. He walks through the science briefly (why this wavelength cuts cleaner and faster than anything else on the market), then spends