Many modern technologies are coming out nowadays. One of this is Microscope Enhanced Dentistry which they use an articulating type of microscope. Although it is not yet available all over the world but soon I know it will spread in different dental clinic across the globe. Generally teeth are small structure like any other parts of our body like eyes, ears and nose. Medical and dental surgeons have a hard time to manipulate or work on that certain area because of small structures that comprises it. Nowadays surgeons usually use an articulating microscope during their operating procedure to have a clear vision and accuracy at their work.
Watching a teeth as big as a fist or bigger than that is very amazing. The structure that you can’t see by your naked eye is possible to view by the use of an articulating microscope. By this latest microscope the patients get to see the condition of his teeth and explain to him clearly why this happened. They can also see the result of treatment because this articulating microscope is attached to a television which both patient and surgeon can view.
A better quality of fillings, root canal therapy, implants, alveolectomy, and other complicated procedures which can be done by an articulating microscope gives the patient a confident to smile even more. You will observe that the patient will be more aware of his dental health and they cooperate during treatment because they have an assurance that a better and good out come will be done for them.
The use of this operating microscope is in the field of dentistry starts to available in India but just recently it also started in Western Europe and some parts of America. It is required by The American Dental Association to operate microscope for post-graduate training in root canal treatment and now almost endodontist in the USA have their personal microscope or use a microscope to their work. Not only endodontist is obliged to use an articulating microscope. Some field of dentistry is starting to use it, like orthodontists and prosthodontists are beginning to start using a microscope.
It is a very big improvement in the field of dentistry by using a microscope. From the time a microscope was use in dentistry especially in endodontic, the additional canal found in the root of a tooth was called MB2’s and other microscopic structures of canals that was found with the use of a microscope is not impossible to treat well. The chances of failure in root canal therapy are much smaller compare than before.
Some dentist use microscope even in cleaning and scaling of the teeth because there are some areas that are hard to reach by our naked eye and the dentist just assume that it is already clean and later on the patient will just found out that one of his teeth is was already decay due to accumulation of plaque and will wonder how come this happened he always had his cleaning to his dentist regularly.
It is better to have a modern technology to be use in the field of dentistry or in all medical fields. A big chance of having a successful operation and treatment can give to the patient. The patient’s confidence and trust to his dentist is increased to see the improvement and changes to his smile. More on this topic