subject: How Technology Developments Affect Dentists [print this page] Dentists services and treatment have become much more extensive today. With the discovery of local dental and general dental anesthetics in the eighteen-hundreds all of a sudden there was much more that dentists could do for their dental patients in providing dental services.
For example, instead of extracting teeth with dental decay and dental pulp infection, dentists could now drill to remove the dental infection and dental decay and save the teeth. This brings us to another dental discovery that makes dentists services more helpful and effective and that is the invention of small dental drills and dental files and other such dental tools required to do the intricate and small work of dentists. With a small dental drill dentists can drill through the enamel of teeth and get to the pulp of the teeth where dental infection or dental abscesses form. With the local dental and general dental anesthetics dentists can ensure that the dental patient is comfortable and the dentists can work away at removing the dental decay and dental infection from inside the teeth. Normally, teeth would have to be extracted if a dental abscess was present, but the dental anesthesia and dental tools like the root canal procedure described above can now be performed to repair and save teeth.
Dentists also need dental metals and dental plastics and dental porcelain and other dental materials to replace teeth spaces that have been drilled out like the dental root canal example above. So that dental patients don't have a gaping hole in their teeth where dentists have removed dental decay or a dental abscess infection, and so that the dental patient doesn't have dental infection start-up again, dentists can now fill in cleaned out teeth decay with dental metals and rubbery type dental material that has been invented within the last one-hundred years of dental science.
Cosmetic dentists are now a prominent part of dentistry whereas cosmetic dentistry wasn't before. If you look at movie-stars from thirty or forty years ago and compare their smiles with the porcelain veneers smiles of today's movie-stars you'll notice a big difference that has come about because of the development of cosmetic dentists careers. Now, with new materials that are friendly to the human body and new tools and technology cosmetic dentists can custom make veneers to fit snugly around a dental patients teeth to create the perfect smile. Or cosmetic dentists could use all of those same tools and materials to replace missing teeth with dental implants or repair broken teeth. There is so much more that can be done by cosmetic dentists because of the technology developments within the last twenty years of dentistry science.
Dentists also have more understanding of the anatomy and how dental health affects overall health which has increased the necessity for specialized dentists such as periodontics dentists and endodontics dentists who study and repair the diseases and infections in and around the teeth, the dental problems that are caused by dental ligaments and dental tissue decay.
Also, orthodontist dentists can do more about straightening teeth with more dental gadgets and more convenient and comfortable dental repair and tools. You'll remember the dental head-gears that kids used to have to wear and the stigma that it caused. Now, with braces and dental bite correctors those head-gear days are gone and dentists are visited more because they can do more for the dental patients.
