Technological innovations are coming dental clinics more often than before, and are always positive for the patient and for professionals. There are advances in all fields, but resonate those of restorative dentistry, which seeks to restore the functionality and aesthetics of a tooth if it has been lost.
The reasons why a person may need a dental implant, fillings, veneers, crowns, bridges, total or partial dentures differ, but the solution usually comes from one source: the technology used in each of the treatments.
For example, tooth decay is the cause of many problems in the teeth: if it advances a lot, you can even reach the loss of the tooth and you have to replace it. A filling is traditionally placed and followed up. But the technologies have gone further, betting on the most innovative techniques and technologies of the moment.
A team of researchers from the University of Washington managed to recreate the essence of amelogenin, a fundamental protein to form the hard crown enamel, and designed peptides derived from amelogenin that are biomineralized in a natural way becoming an active element that reconstructs the piece damaged
Although it looks like a science fiction thing, the peptides join the surface of the tooth and attract calcium and phosphate ions, rebuilding the enamel destroyed by caries again, without the need for a more complicated procedure. In each application, the amelogenin peptide will replenish 10 to 50 micrometers of new enamel in the teeth.
On the other hand, if we look at the dental implant treatments, the technology has not stopped moving forward. Protocols, technologies and equipment have been created to plan, create and install dental implants that were previously designed in a computer, giving a guarantee of success in the operation and faster relief to the patient.
And if materials are spoken, efforts appear to achieve increasingly biocompatible elements that allow rapid, safe and painless osseointegration. This is how zirconium is having an increasing presence in dental implant treatments.
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