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Laser
Early Cavity Diagnosis . . .
More and more patients place value on healthy and attractive teeth. In order to maintain them, the earliest possible care is essential. DIAGNOdent helps you with early detection. Even very small lesions are detected at the earliest stage, enabling you to protect and preserve the tooth substance. The Kavo DiagnoDent is a laser device which enables us to detect the presence of dental decay in its earliest stage. We used to detect cavities with a sharp explorer-probe.
The cavity had to be larger than the size of the tip of the explorer before
we could detect it. This was okay because we used to prepare cavities
with a drill. The cavity had to be bigger than the size of the head of
the drill bit. Now, with the newer laser technology and air abrasion technology,
we can prepare a very small filling for a very small tooth decay. We need
a better and more sensitive device to detect tooth decay. The DiagnoDent
emits a laser beam to the tooth. If there is dental decay, the fluoresence
would be an altered wavelength, with in turn would be sensed and interpreted
by the DiagnoDent to give out a numerical reading. With the DiagnoDent,
we can now detect cavities smaller than the tip of a dental explorer.
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