We all are afraid of pain, and many dental care specialists agree that severe dental pain and our dental phobias are the leading factors that make us delay our visiting dental clinics and skip even our regular dental check ups. Despite the fact that there are very effective pain management technologies used in all modern dental care clinics to reduce and totally eliminate pain during dental procedures, our fear of dental pain still makes us stay away from dental specialists for as much as we can. We are rather ready to drink a handful of painkillers every day and stand on chronic dental pain than visit a dentist and remove the aching tooth. According to the most recent estimations, about 25 per cent of adult people in today’s United Kingdom admit that their anxiety and great fear of severe dental pain during the procedures are the main factor making them delay their dental clinic visits.

That is why national dental care specialists initiated a massive campaign to raise public awareness of the fact that there are very effective technologies for dental pain relief, as well as promoting a new revolutionary technology named Vibraject. This new approach has been launched in over 100 dental clinics throughout the country, and it offers totally pain-free dental procedures. Vibraject, which is actually a small electronic device to be attached to dental equipment, works for removing dental pain linked to dental injection, thus making dental procedures pain free and assisting patients sitting in dental chairs feeling comfortable and fear-free. This device is an excellent solution for those with severe needle phobia, as well as for those patients who suffer from the above mentioned dental drilling phobias and other dental pain phobias. By using Vibraject, dental specialists can make injections so effectively and so successfully that most of the patients do not even notice that the painkiller has already been injected, thus feel  no pain and negative emotions.

The device itself is something like a very small barrel attached to a regular syringe. Its main function is making the needle vibrate very fast, making a special sensation which can reach the brain first and effectively cover the feeling of having a needle in the gum and feeling the related pain. Practicing dental care specialists who have already tried this amazing innovation are very happy with the effects and say that this technology works perfectly great, especially for young children who are usually scared of both dental pain and dental injection related pain. Small patients are extremely happy and named this amazing dental pain relief technology ‘The Buzzy Thing’. Dental care professionals are convinced that this invention can contribute greatly in developing a new feeling and a new understanding of dental procedures forming in new generation, as pain-free procedures. It is reported that Vibraject guarantees a great emotional relief and stress-free dental procedure even to those people who are extremely pain sensitive and suffer from severe needle phobia.

Every one who wants to test the benefits of the dental pain relief can visit a dental clinic included to the campaign promoters list. In order to proclaim and inform the patients that they are participating in the campaign, the dental cabinets and clinics were given special stickers with a sign “Vibraject here”. There are plenty of positive reviews and comments from the clients at the website of the campaign as well. Many experts also express their positive opinions after using the dental pain relief technology. ‘After I had used Vibraject, the patient asked me: ‘When do you give me the injection?’ I have used it on virtually every single patient since then. I think it’s fantastic,’ said Dr. Stevenson, a specialists at Maryport Dental Care Centre. Hopefully, this amazing tool will shortly be available throughout the world and help millions of dental patients to go through their procedures without any pain, any fear and any stress. Go to here to learn more about the issue.

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Posted: February 15th, 2013 under Innovations In Dentistry.
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A truly amazing and very interesting solution for those patients who are very much scared of the sound of dental drill is offered in one of Indonesian dental clinics. The patients of Dr Dhanni Gustiana, a dentist in one of the clinics in Purworejo, Java, Indonesia, have a lucky chance not to listen to terrifying sounds of dental drill. Instead, they can hear special musical sounds which assist greatly in decreasing their negative emotions, lowering their nervousness and anxiety before the procedure, as well as substantially decrease their fear of visiting dental clinics. A unique device known as musical dental drill was created by Dr. Gustiana himself, with the objective to reduce the loudness of high-pitch sounds and help patients to relax during the procedure. It is reported that this amazing device is extremely popular, especially among the younger patients and very little kids who very often visit Dr. Gustiana’s office without any fears and worries.

The specialist had to work with kids for some long time before he came up with this amazing idea. ‘The children are not afraid of doctor, many of them are afraid of drill. I modified this by putting a toy on the head of the drill and tell them that the toy will clean their teeth,’ he said. After spending more that a year researching and analyzing numerous ideas, he came up with the final project and made his special tool, a unique musical dental drill. His approach was modifying a usual dental drill commonly used in all dental clinics all over the world, inserted a sort of mp3 played to the device, collected a variety of popular cheerful songs and made sure that the sound of the music can go higher than that familiar buzzing sound of the dental drill. In addition to that, Dr. Gustiana provided the innovative device with colorful shining lights which attract attention and help patients not to get focused on their fears or their negative emotions.

It is interesting that the doctor can adjust the loudness and the type of music according to what is going on and what phase of the procedure is occurring. ‘The patient will hear the music louder when they open their mouths compared to when they close their mouths,’ the specialist says. According to the expert, the device is not expensive at all, and he spent about six million rupiah (£372) for creating the pilot item of this exclusive dental drill. Moreover, he says that further ideas that he is considering now is providing his tool with small figures of animals or fairy tale characters made from silicon to be placed to the tool to attract the attention of young patients and reduce their fear. However, as the Indonesian dental specialist says that the innovative dental drill has extreme demand both among kids and adult patients, and most of the latter enjoy magic effects of the dental tool not less than little kids.

In addition, there are plenty of positive responses from the patients who come every day to the dental clinic and enjoy the benefits of miraculous dental drill.  ’Very interesting, the children listening to the music and they forget about the drill in their mouth. This is a good idea to overcome fear of dental drill,’ a mother of one kid wrote to the guest book. Also, a great deal of positive feedback comes from those patients who are not aware about magic dental drill, so the magic effects come as a surprise for them. Dr. Gustiana has over 6 years of experience of successful use of his amazing dental drill, and he is willing to introduce it to the world which is going to happen at the International Dental Congress in Greece in March. He hopes that many dental specialists and their patients around the world can also benefit from this amazing innovation.

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Posted: January 31st, 2013 under Innovations In Dentistry.
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We all know very well about the benefits of visiting our dental care specialist once every 6 months. These regular check ups are an essential element of a proper dental care program and can help prevent serious dental problems, starting from tooth decay and ending up with gum disease. However, doing regular dental check ups with a professional dentist has plenty of other advantages. In particular, some serious diseases (especially infections and inflammations) can be diagnosed early by examining the tongue condition, and successfully treated after. Besides, according to the newest findings of British dental scientists, dental records like dental scans can be turned into a unique tool to prevent such common disease as osteoporosis. They can help identify osteoporosis risk and start treating this problem years before the disease starts progressing.

A group of scientists at Manchester University have presented their new developments and pioneering dental technology which received the name Osteodent. It can be used to analyze dental records of the patients and estimate their osteoporosis risk. It is reported that this health condition has been diagnosed in over three millions of British people, and it mainly affects women aged 50 and older. Osteoporosis is considered quite a serious health problem which is linked to a lack of calcium in bones and bone density reduction leading to bone-thinning and extremely high risks of bone fracture. At the same time, modern medicine still can not offer an effective way of diagnosing this health condition on its earliest stages, or even estimate osteoporosis risk in one or another person until an actual bone fracture takes place and the disease can be diagnosed based on this evidence.

British scientist studied bone deterioration which can be clearly seen in the jaw bone of dental patients. Such kind of dental records as x-ray usually performed before making a decision on one of another dental treatment, can help in detecting bone deterioration which is occurring in jaw and other bones of the body. Manchester University scientists came to these conclusions after analyzing 5,000 x-rays of people with dental problems, aged between 15 and 94. The scientists found out that by using this kind of dental records, it is possible to detect bone density changes. It has been very clearly seen especially in women: those aged below 42 did not demonstrate bone density changes, but those over 42 had clear signs of bone density loss linked to increased osteoporosis risk. Comparing x-rays of other bones helped to confirm that the changes similar to the ones in jaw bone took place in other body parts.

The scientists realize the importance of their findings and underline amazing opportunities modern dentists may have for estimating osteoporosis risk, early diagnosis and increasing the effectiveness of osteoporosis treatment. Hugh Devlin, one of the study leaders and professor of restorative dentistry at Manchester University said: ‘Dentists are uniquely positioned to provide such a service as they see patients regularly and routinely perform X-ray examinations.’ The findings helped Manchester University scientists develop a revolutionary technology, a new software to estimate an individual’s osteoporosis risk. It can give valuable information to dental care specialist taken from x-rays. Devlin is convinced that their technology can say a new word in osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment, and it can save hundreds or thousands of pounds used for osteoporosis treatment and preventive therapy techniques. More information about the study and the findings can be found in this article.

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Posted: September 28th, 2012 under Innovations In Dentistry.
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