Comments on: Getting Rid of the Dental Drill

By: Dean Esmay

Dean Esmay — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:18:02 +0000

I’m not talking about fillings, I’m talking about something they could paint onto your teeth to restore/replace the enamel, which slowly dissolves away over your lifetime even if you brush and floss religiously. Especially if you drink coffee. A filling has them cutting away a large portion of the tooth just to plug it with something that will crack or fall out itself eventually.Â If they could paint something on the tooth that looks completely natural and only has to be reapplied every few years, it might help dentists concern themselves with other things than drilling. ;-)

By: John_B

John_B — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:55:04 +0000

Or gold, silver, steel, or porcelain?

But yes, a one-in-a-lifetime application of some diamond-like coating, applied to the surfaces of all adult teeth, would be quite nice.

Dentists wouldn’t care for it much, I suspect, unless they could charge a lifetime’s dental care for the application.

But then, they could simply be replaced by technicians, couldn’t they…

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By: jaymaster

jaymaster — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:29:07 +0000

“”I keep wondering when theyâ€™ll come up with something they can paint on to simply replace tooth enamel with something better.”

Yeah. Like fudge!”"

Or mercury amalgam….

By: Ron Coleman

Ron Coleman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:22:22 +0000

I keep wondering when theyâ€™ll come up with something they can paint on to simply replace tooth enamel with something better.

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By: zach

zach — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:22:07 +0000

Cool to see Raman spectroscopy in the news for once! i’m not familiar with the exact research done in this article, but in my opinion it will be at least 10+ years before something like this ever makes it to market. Raman systems are getting cheaper all the time, but currently they are a $30k+ endeavor, and require very sophisticated data processing algorithms that can get tripped up on person-to-person variability in spectra.