Caries treatment without drilling teeth in children and adults

Modern dentistry, like other medicine, is advancing faster and faster.In most cases, visiting the dental office nowadays does without pain and significant complications.

Moreover, there are a number of methods of caries treatment that do not even require the involvement of frightening many drill.

Laser treatment

The first of such methods can be called the use of a medical laser for the treatment of dental caries.

The laser is already actively used to diagnose a number of diseases and in a variety of dental procedures, so what is its advantage of before drilling?

The following can be classified as such:

1. Painless procedure .With the right approach, the use of the laser does not require any anesthesia, and all manipulations are carried out completely painlessly.
2. No Vibration and Noise .Using a drill is less pleasant and comfortable for the patient due to its side effects.The laser lacks such shortcomings.

However, there are a number of disadvantages of in applying this method.Separately, they are not so significant, but together they can greatly reduce the level of dental treatment.These drawbacks include:

1. Limited functionality .Completely to pass to laser therapy, having forgotten about use of a drill, for today it is technically impossible.The laser is suitable only for the removal of enamel, which is affected by caries, and in the case of its deeper stage, in which, for example, dentin is affected, it is necessary to apply the dentin in the old manner.
2. Expensive .The laser unit is a novelty in the dental market and is not so common, which makes it quite expensive.Training dentists for new technology is also worth the money.All this later affects the cost of treatment.
3. Bad fastening of seals .The laser has a rather high power, as a result of which the tooth tissue heats up and changes its volume, and there is no filling material.This breaks the contact between them, and increases the risk of a seal from the tooth.
4. Lack of skills.As already mentioned, the laser is a novelty in dentistry and not all doctors are able to immediately use this novelty effectively, without making any mistakes in the treatment process.
5. Weak review of .Laser therapy makes it necessary for the doctor to use special darkened glasses, which worsens the review and can lead to errors.

The application of the laser in the process of tooth treatment without drilling reviews is very different, from positive to negative.Decide whether to start laser therapy yourself, after consulting with your doctor.

Ozone treatment

Another method of caries treatment without a drill is that the tooth-damaged tooth is not cleaned from the carious cavity, or it is cleaned to the minimum.

Together this is the effect of ozone, which is able to destroy almost all pathogenic bacteria , thereby stopping their multiplication and further growth of the carious cavity.

This happens approximately like this: first, a kind of hermetically sealed silicone thimble is applied to the place of damage, then air is pumped out, and ozone is fed into its place, killing for half a minute all harmful microorganisms.

The advantage of this method is, perhaps, only one - the possibility to do without drilling .

Use ozone makes sense if there is a desire to perform dental treatment without drilling to children who are afraid or do not tolerate the use of the drill badly.

This method also has some drawbacks to .

First, use of ozone treatment is possible only for very small carious lesions , otherwise the drill can not be avoided.

Secondly, the use of ozone is able to make tooth enamel and dentine softer than , which negatively affects the fixation of the seal, which is always firm, and increases the risk of its loss.

Method of infiltration and air-abrasive treatment

Another possible method of treating caries without drilling can be considered infiltration method .It consists in applying chemical-mechanical treatment of the affected area by applying a special gel that cleaves tooth enamel onto it.

After that the focus of infection is dried with concentrated ethyl alcohol and impregnated with polymer resin.

The advantages of this method are its painlessness and the need to remove only the tooth decay affected by caries, without affecting the healthy.

However, for infiltration to work effectively, should only be used on a smooth tooth surface or in a well with even edges and spacious access inside the .

As for air-abrasive treatment , the essence of the method is to use a powerful air flow with admixture of hard abrasive materials such as quartz sand or aluminum oxide.

Being directed to the carious cavity, the air and sand flow is cleaned from the tooth softer due to caries damage, without affecting healthy dental tissue.

The following factors can be attributed to the advantages of this method:

• application of abrasive materials practically completely excludes caries recurrence in the cured tooth;
• in the treatment of tooth enamel procedure is completely painless and not requires the use of anesthesia ;
• absence of drilling allows to significantly reduce the likelihood of microcracks , which can later have a destructive effect on the tooth.

But, if necessary, to treat deeper caries , this method does not fit .In addition, the apparatus used in such treatment requires access to a carious cavity of a certain width, otherwise the tip to start the jet can not be directed to the desired place.

Another deficiency of may be an increase in the sensitivity of the tooth to irritants after treatment with an air-abrasive jet.

Treatment with Icon

A German company launched a drug called Icon .According to the description, this means essentially reverses the process of carious destruction in the opposite direction, making the softened areas of the dental tissue more firm and dense.

In addition, the new dental tissue acquires resistance to the influence of an aggressive chemical environment, and the tooth enamel becomes lighter and becomes more transparent.

Apply Icon in the treatment of tooth decay without drilling teeth in children will be the most optimal option.However, helps it only in the first stage of caries , which is characterized by a white spot on the enamel, without the formation of carious cavities.

In addition, it does not restore the former fluorine and calcium content in the dental tissue, and replaces the lost substances with the polymer material .

Nevertheless, the use of Icon is painless, helps to stop the development of the disease at an early stage, restore the whiteness of the enamel, is effective at the first application and fixes a positive result for a long time.