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Orthodontics of the future

Category: Dental
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I am not dentist. But I want to share this idea. It´s at least different.

I wish in the future the dental treatments for placing teeth will be faster and easier (as far as the technology is available).

There will be a process that will melt the base of the teeth (some source of heat) after this happens the teeth should be placed in the desired position. Then to strengthen them it would be applied a very cold stream. It would be, of course, painless, fast and may be with a lower cost than present treatments.

May be this is absurd but I wanted to start my contributions with this idea.

fersalom, Jun 11 2005

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New technology, in terms of dentistry, at the moment includes the possibility of growing teeth using the patients cells. In theory, this would sidestep the need for fillings, crowns, et al. Still just a theory, though.

I give your idea a '0'.

Rednecked_Crake, Jun 15 2005

All contributions to this site should be welcome but they usually turn out better if the contributor looks around at current methods t see what's current in the field. There are several methods for replacing teeth but they can be painful and expensive.

sand, Sep 21 2006

Pain is just a function of our nervous system. So nitrous or other anesthetics will overcome anything painful. But your idea is difficult because we have an abundance of nerve fibers that run adjacent to the roots of our teeth. One of the common complications of having a wisdom tooth extracted is that part of the face goes permanently numb. They of course don't tell you that in advance. So any method that would disturb these nerve fibers is probably not going to be feasible.

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