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How often we forget we live in a Magical Sci-Fi world of lasers in my mouth

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IronWing

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So I went to the dentist yesterday. I'll admit it has been a while since my last visit. Some of the new stuff is just AMAZING!

They shot lasers into my gums! Let me repeat: they shot lasers into my gums! Then they used the fancy digital x-ray machines and the digital camera-ring light USB thingy the size of the toothbrush:

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I want one!

They used the sonic pick (yes, they've done that before but it is still really futuristic).

Then came the CAD/CAM. I had an old amalgam filling that had started to erode. So they drilled that out and replaced it with a ceramic inlay. They made the inlay by sticking a 3D imager in my mouth and building a CAD model of the hole and the opposite tooth.

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Then the CAD program and dentist designer the inlay to fit the hole and match the opposite tooth.

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Then click the button and off to the milling machine. Eight minutes, 40 seconds later a perfect ceramic inlay was finished.

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Video of mill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1nGcXx5lFs

From start to finish, the process of drilling, imaging, designing, milling, and installing the inlay took less than a half hour.

No pics of the hygienists.
 
My dentist has been using this for about two years now. Of course since I cant' afford to go to the dentist I have to rely on what the rest of my family says. Apparently it's leagues above the old pick that they hygienist uses to torture your gums till they bleed.
 
I think I'm going to have to switch dentists. Mine doesn't use anything close to this type of technology. Hell, he doesn't even have a computer in his office. All the record keeping is done by book like it's 1970.
 
crownjules said:
I think I'm going to have to switch dentists. Mine doesn't use anything close to this type of technology. Hell, he doesn't even have a computer in his office. All the record keeping is done by book like it's 1970.
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Same here, I just get the old poke and prod treatment to determine anything. I have a gap in my teeth that I think is being caused by early stage periodontal disease, and my dentist said it's normal and there isn't much that can be done. He won't even bother giving me an unscheduled xray. Instead I just keep pulling food out of the gap after each meal so it doesn't get infected.
 
Sluggo said:
Curious, what did you end up paying for the filling with all the tech?
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Drilling the old filling and making/applying the new filling was $380. It would have been about $525 without the discount negotiated by the insurance company. It wasn't covered by insurance but the insurance company still negotiated the rate.

Everything else came to about $125 with insurance picking up about $100 of it.
 
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