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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There are plenty of risks linked to improper dental care and  poor oral hygiene which go far beyond just developing serious dental problems. Studies have shown that improper dental care can cause increased vulnerability to various infections, impaired function of cardiovascular system, increased risk of mental disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, and many other potentially very harmful health conditions. The researchers and scientific works aimed to study health risks related to poor oral hygiene and dental care are being carried out throughout the world. In the end of 2012, the findings of Turkish specialists from Inonu University in Istanbul were published in most of the online media resources. After carrying out a series of experiments and analysis, Turkish scientists came to a conclusion that those men who have bad breath, suffer from other dental problems caused by improper dental care are very likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction and have quite serious problems in bed.

Such dental problems like gum inflammation or gum disease can definitely play a role of a sign of sexual dysfunction in modern men, the Turkish scientists are convinced. For the study, Istanbul researchers invited 82 young men in good health (both dental and sexual), aged between 30 and 40, and 80 young men suffering from erectile dysfunction and other related health conditions. After analyzing tons of various information collected on the participant for the last ten years, including the information about their daily diet, bad habits, lifestyle, and, certainly, dental health, the scientists could see that 53 per cent of the participants who reported suffering from sexual disorders had clear signs of gum inflammation, and some of them had obvious signs of gum disease. Among those participants who had no erectile dysfunction and did not have other health problems, less than 20 per cent were found to demonstrate very early signs of gum inflammation, but nothing more than that.

After taking into account other important factors, including being overweight, education level, level of income, social status, and many more, it became apparent for the researchers that poor oral care can play one of the leading roles and be one of the main causes of problems in bed in modern men. Turkish specialists suggest that having sever periodontal disease and other related dental conditions is linked to a very serious increase to suffer from erectile dysfunction: up to 3.3 times higher risk. “Physical factors cause nearly two-thirds of cases, mainly because of problems with the blood vessels, with psychological issues like emotional stress and depression accounting for the remainder,” said Doctor Faith Oguz, one of the authors of the research and a leading specialist of Inonu University in Turkey. It is estimated that in the modern world, there are more than 150 million men suffering from erectile dysfunction making this health condition one of the leading public health problems of modern times.

Certainly, the discovered risks are not the only unwanted health condition caused by poor oral hygiene and serious dental problems. As it was reported before, those who suffer from gum disease have increased risk to develop vascular diseases including coronary heart disease. Periodontists or gum disease is a condition caused by a common bacteria in patients’ mouth. This bacteria causes gum inflammation and affects other body organ and systems. According to the study leader, other factors like smoking or having a systemic disease could also play a role in erectile dysfunction in men. ‘To our knowledge, erectile dysfunction and chronic periodontitis in humans are caused by similar risk factors, such as ageing, smoking, diabetes and coronary artery disease,” he said. Thus, chronic gum inflammation should be considered one of the leading causes of sexual dysfunction and problems in bed for today’s men, Dr. Oguz underlined. The findings of this interesting study were published in the end of the year 2012 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

 

 

 

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Posted: January 14th, 2013 under Dental Problems.
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