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Progress in dentistry
07-09-2009
Technical progress in the field of dentistry rapidly developed in recent years. He gave us such innovations that have facilitated many of us have a hard way to the dentist's chair.
Drilling unit of the latest design
Many patients do not feel excitement at the thought of being subjected to surgery with a drill, the worst that can be removed with dental caries, with her head fills the noise. For them there is some good news: a new device under the symbol abbreviation DAC (Kinetic - Cavity - Preparation), ablating areas of carious teeth with a sort of sanding machine. If the patient does not hear any unpleasant sounds, and which occur with this pain reaction is much less intense than in the processing of regular drill.
Cosmetic Dentistry
More recently dentist saw his task is to only treat diseases of the teeth. If a person with very healthy teeth have an imperfect bite, for example, with large gaps between the teeth, with a dark natural color of teeth or with cleaved edges of the teeth, he was forced to resign ourselves to this, because the beauty of the teeth was outside the objectives of dentistry.
Today things are different. Although not all dentists have mastered the art of aesthetic correction of the teeth.
Computerized correction of the bite and the associated appearance
Aesthetic correction of malocclusion is not only costly, but long enough that in the ground and keeps the majority of patients from this operation.
In addition, not all people can imagine how they will look after this correction. This can help the so-called "Machine image.
Your face takes camcorder: while you have to smile so we could see your teeth. Based on this picture plug the computer calculates that it is necessary to correct your bite to make it look perfect. The result of this treatment very soon appear on the screen: Naturally, you can get a copy of your processed image. The image will be shown how best to Round the corners of the teeth, to close the gap between the teeth and what color your teeth are most suitable. Being able to get acquainted with their appearance, you have to buy after the correction, you will surely decide to carry out correction of malocclusion.
Low-level radiation: a new X-ray machines
In order to not harm the health, the level of X-ray irradiation in the manufacture of X-ray images should be in any case, as low as possible. Thus, the use of X-ray should be done only in justified cases.
A pregnant woman should not be subjected to X-ray examination because of danger of damage to the fetus.
Because some surveys or medical procedures can not be conducted without the use of X-rays, it is continuously improved in the direction of reducing to acceptable levels of radiation dose in the surveys.
In general, the dose when removing snapshot occlusion is significantly lower than that which occurs, for example, when removing the image of other parts of the body: when removing the tooth image, the dose is 210 milliroentgen, and when removing the image the breast (mammography) dose is 4000 LL.
Likewise, when removing the overview image of both jaws, carried out with Orthopantomogram (OPG), this dose lies within the 210 MR. Such images are needed especially in cases where vast areas to be treated and the patient experiences severe pain an unclear nature.
However, OPG does not give a sufficiently clear picture and therefore not suitable for diagnosis of diseases associated with the roots of teeth or dental caries. In these cases, the doctor makes a simple X-ray.
But in this area appeared technical innovation: a digital X-ray, which costs considerably more low-radiation according to the manufacturer's things needed dose of radiation is only 10% of the existing. The digital X-ray apparatus X-ray is replaced by a microchip. X-ray picture of the investigated area is considered on a computer screen, with it easily provides the image sharpness and the study of its individual parts in a larger view.
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