Archive for the 'teeth' Tag
Watch Out Dentists: The Plasma Toothbrush is Coming
At the University of Missouri scientists are trying to do away with painful visits to the dentist. They’ve developed a plasma brush, that would allow dentists to do away with the drill and prepare cavity-damaged teeth for fillings. Instead of grinding away damaged parts of the teeth, the plasma brush modifies the tooth surface to [...]
WSJ: Dingy teeth were once relatively common. But after a 1989 scientific article touted the use of low levels of hydrogen peroxide, pressed against teeth, to improve smiles, companies began producing whitening products and dentists began hawking them. Entrepreneurs jumped in quickly. The Food and Drug Administration classifies teeth-whitening products as cosmetics, and drugstores were [...]
Inventor Spot: The latest cosmetic dentistry trend out of Japan is “Yaeba”: Vampire Teeth. Dental Salon Plaisir, located in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district, specializes in this cosmetic procedure that lengthens, sharpens and enhances one’s canines to fang-tastic proportions. Dr. Yoko Kashiyama and her staff offer Vampire Teeth as just one of their many diagnostic, hygienic [...]
No More Cavities: Regrowing Rotten Teeth
Times of India: The whine of the dentist’s drill may soon be silenced, as scientists claim to have found the secret of a “completely painless” filling by identifying a material that can repair decaying teeth within weeks. The “filling without drilling” method, devised by a team at Leeds University’s Dental Institute in the UK, involves [...]
