Acid Syringe To Replace Dentist's Drill?
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Feb 8 2010, 3:02 PM
The dreaded drill could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new technique in which teeth are treated with acid gel squirted from a syringe.
First, a rubber 'collar' is placed around the target tooth to protect its neighbours. The four-inch syringe then applies a spot of the gel to the discoloured and decaying part.
Within a couple of minutes the acid etches through the enamel into the cavity below, which is then cleaned then dried using ethanol. FInally, the dentist injects a quick-drying resin into the hole which hardens quickly under a high-energy blue light.
The finished filling looks like normal tooth enamel and the whole process takes just 15 minutes.
I don't have any official sort of marketing background but I would suggest that in order to make this process sound more appealing to consumers it might be wise to change the name of the device to something slightly less horrifying than "acid syringe."
The dreaded drill could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new technique in which teeth are treated with acid gel squirted from a syringe.
First, a rubber 'collar' is placed around the target tooth to protect its neighbours. The four-inch syringe then applies a spot of the gel to the discoloured and decaying part.
Within a couple of minutes the acid etches through the enamel into the cavity below, which is then cleaned then dried using ethanol. FInally, the dentist injects a quick-drying resin into the hole which hardens quickly under a high-energy blue light.
The finished filling looks like normal tooth enamel and the whole process takes just 15 minutes.
I don't have any official sort of marketing background but I would suggest that in order to make this process sound more appealing to consumers it might be wise to change the name of the device to something slightly less horrifying than "acid syringe."
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