New cavity treatment offers no drilling, no filling

A new clinical trial at the UAB School of Dentistry offers patients a no drill, no fill cavity treatment.

[lazarusblackwell]

ALL DENTISTS NEED THIS AND ALL PATIENTS TOO

STOP DESTROYING TEETH WITH YOUR DRILLS AND USE TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS

[jamiesmith]

I love this video because there's no long intro. He jumps right into the content. A video's title IS the intro. I typically start a video by hitting "L", which is the keyboard shortcut to advance 10 seconds. I usually have to do it a 2nd time too.

[generalsodapop]

The fact this tech existed for at least 6 years and my dentist hasnt recommended it to me is very frustrating.

[TRADERSFRIEND]

Wow, this is truly revolutionary!!!! Many of the challenges we have with our teeth have come from going to the dentist

[jakedo]

Resin infiltration (what being shown in the video) only works with white-spot lesions, meaning areas that, if left alone, may progress into cavities. This will not work for all caries. Your dentist cannot magically melt away your tooth decay just by applying a special solution on it without any drilling. Otherwise; this would have been a breakthrough a long time ago.

[mtlvmpr]

EDIT. This is called Resin Infiltration. Weird that it isn't mentioned anywhere.

I just got this treatment for 2 of my teeth. I'm from Finland and it was used by 2 students I've been a test subject for. Can't really say how well it worked but I guess time will tell. Still needed a lot of drilling for my other teeth but this was a decent surprise.

[entvisual]

*Lord thank you* so much for this technology so much pain with drilling! I will never forget 😢😢

[MrAGNTJ]

holy shit this would have been gold for me 20 years ago

[lilylee]

Once I went to a dentist to clean teeth because one of my teeth swollen. She said she had to cut the gum to help cleaning. The next day I lost the tooth.
I told her and she said she would give me a discount to make a false tooth. I refused. Now there is a space with my smile.

I think a responsible government should take good care of people's health including dental health.

[mothiurNCL]

The question is which medical company will allow this to go ahead nationwide or globally?
If it does how many patients will need to be skim priced i.e. Ripped off before it's available to the general public?

[adairlosenem]

The foundry dental center in Bessemer and Easley (outside Birmingham) use this technique.

[thatthieff]

...so.. how are you killing the infection before adding the resin?

[grimsobad]

I live in the other side of the world, really hope we get this.

[Patriotx-gxce]

Out teeth can heal cavity under certain conditions.
Takes year or so off strict rules and most people don't have time for that.
So this is amazing.
Again my dentist never ever mentioned this.
They all have yearly conferences wonder what they do there if not sharing knowledge?)

[DigitalAndInnovation]

I am going to need to do some research now! I am curious how this deals with the caries if you are not drilling.

[maximus]

I haven't had really any fillings, its been a long time. Im terrified and this new technology makes it a lot better, im a hypochondriac and am still scared that I will need a tooth pulled one day, and a new one replaced. That gives me anxiety like ive never felt

[gareginasatryan]

How do u clean the cavity without drilling?

[mothiurNCL]

7 years later still not available worldwide nor UK-wide. Dentists keep on drilling.

[Floodland-bnol]

This seems amazing but do you get rid of the inefected rot without drilling or scraping? Thank-you

[corniss]

So why are dentists still drilling our teeth