Microscope-Assisted Dental Treatment

We live in an era where developing technologies are included in every aspect of our lives and change our habits. These developments are accelerating day by day and transformations are happening more frequently. In such a period, those who can benefit from the opportunities provided by technology are tasting the future and living one step ahead.

As in every field, the field of health is also developing very rapidly. Accordingly, these developments have made it possible to treat previously fatal or incurable diseases and have affected the increase in human life. Since new products in all sectors have prices that are much higher than the market when they first come out, their use lasts for years. However, when it comes to health, people even go to other parts of the world to access new generation treatments.

Dentistry is also in a digital transformation today with the integration of new devices into clinics every passing day. Instead of taking old-fashioned dough-like measurements, 3D models are produced with intraoral cameras, and we can obtain the work done by dental technicians without touching the devices. In addition to these, one of the most effective devices today is the operating microscope. Microscopes entered the health sector with the realization that increasing the detail in vision allows much more successful work to be done. Devices that doctors started using in surgeries with much more minimal surgeries with a larger and more detailed view in the field of medicine years ago have now become one of the new trends in dentistry, working in the dark area of ​​the mouth and on tiny teeth.

Microscopes take doctors beyond human limits and enable details that are impossible to see with the naked eye to be seen under x10, x16 and even x40 magnification. Thus, details that are normally not noticeable and cannot be intervened in become visible, allowing doctors to perform procedures in more detail in light of all this new information, while protecting the health of the patients to the maximum extent. Since all operations performed with a microscope are completed with minimal damage, they increase patient comfort after the operation.

The dominant view in dentistry for many years has been “Extension For Prevention”. In other words, it has been suggested to remove healthy tooth tissue for reasons such as expanding to protect, providing a better field of vision, allowing old filling materials to adhere to the tooth, etc. While today’s developments in fillings and other materials tell us “You no longer need to remove extra healthy tissue to be able to adhere to the tooth!”, there was another obstacle to removing less tissue: We were still seeing the same thing. Later, new research and developments focused on this issue and gave us magnifying devices that we could use during the procedure. Dental Loupes, which are worn like glasses and provide detailed vision by magnifying the tooth by x2.5-x3.5 times, increased our control over the treatment, while performing procedures by magnifying the tooth up to x40 times with Dental Microscopes opened a brand new page in dentistry. The slogan was changed to “Prevention Of Extension” with dental microscopes. With this approach, we started to protect the teeth from expanding, that is, from removing extra healthy tissue. We called this new style Minimally Invasive Dentistry.

So what are the benefits of making such delicate and small touches to the teeth during the procedure?

The answer to this question is explained very well by the words of David Clark, founder of the Academy of Microscope-Assisted Dentistry (AMED): “The greatest indicator of the long-term retention of teeth in the mouth is the volume of healthy and natural tooth tissue remaining at the end of treatment.” In other words, the less tissue loss a treated tooth has, the longer it can stay in your mouth. In short, microscopes are devices that are now becoming widespread in dentistry. The reason for their use is that the treatment of small and delicate teeth must be carried out with high precision. Depending on the detailed field of vision and the skill of the physician, doctors can perform more delicate treatments and help your teeth stay in your mouth for a long time by removing the minimum amount of tooth tissue.

DT. İREM SENA DİVANLIOĞLU