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BeautY in detaiL / teeth

Look, how far we’ve made it! an infected tooth from italy
partially cleaned with flint tools dates back some 14,000 years
and represents the oldest known dentistry procedure. the
earliest dental filling, made of beeswax, was discovered in
slovenia and is 6,500 years old. as the years went by, beeswax
was replaced by gold, then amalgam and now we have the
composite dental fillings. Prosthetic teeth are no longer made
of wood but of high-quality ceramics, and a visit at the dentist
doesn’t include the excruciating pain from pulling your teeth out
with blacksmith pliers anymore. actually, it’s completely painless
nowadays, thanks to the 1 – 3phased anaesthesia. that’s how far
we’ve gotten
modern dentistry is on the verge of
total computerization as we speak. a
contemporary dentist would not be
able to do much without high quality
technological equipment. or, phrased
more precisely – they wouldn’t be
able to perform as well. the insights
that the panoramic or intraoral x-ray
and the dental operating microscope
provide for them simply cannot be
matched by a dentist’s naked eye, no
matter how experienced they are or
how well it they can see. some problems are just too tiny to be noticed,
but they can still cause significant inconvenience.
Just imagine a tool broken inside
your dental root channel. it’s so tiny
that barely any dentist can see it without the microscope. But you suffer
great pain from the ignition that develops in your teeth because of it. “With
the introduction of operating microscope the success rate of endodontic
treatments – and not just them by far

– has increased up to 97 %,” states dr.
Jan chvojka, the periodontal specialist
of mediestetik clinic. Very similar statistics speak for the relation between
the digital occlusal diagnostic system
t-scan© and the prolonged lifespan of
dental prosthetics.
no more errors
the machines do not only help the
dentists with teeth inspection and
monitoring, but also with their repair.
apart from the operating microscope, there is also cerec®, the robotic
system of 3d modelling. it scans the
patient’s oral cavity down to the tiniest
details and then designs the optimal
shape of the dental filling or crown for
such case. afterwards, it also manufactures the recommended prosthesis in high-quality ceramics in a span
of tens of minutes, which means that
the patient only visits the dentist once
and they leave with a fully functional
prosthesis right away, no stress, no

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waiting. the work that has been done
by a laboratory technician until now;
is currently performed by a machine
with the highest precision possible.
and the advantages of technology
in contemporary dentistry don’t end
there. Just take the ultrasound scalpel,
for example, used mostly during implantations. it makes life much easier
for both the dentist and the patient.
the dentist can see what they’re doing much better and the patient experiences far less stress than during the
treatment with classical manual tools.
and that is what the dental technology is really about – to enable
the dentist to provide as high-quality work as possible, and at the same
time to decrease and diminish all the
possible discomfort the patient may
have during treatment. we’ve really
made a long and wonderful journey
from those first beeswax f