A trip to the dentist isn’t something people usually look forward to. “Because of all the drilling and injections, it’s not fun,” acknowledged Suchitra Nelson, an associate dean and professor at the ...

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Lasers that can cut gum, tooth and bone are ending the despotic rule of the turbine dental drill. Allen Helfer is no sadist, but he does perform root canals on his dental patients without using ...

Peak Family Dental Care is taking some of the fear and pain out of going to the dentist. The facility recently purchased a new Solea laser drill from Convergent Dental that makes filling cavities and ...

A team of mechanical engineering students from Johns Hopkins University is working with a Florida dentist to develop a device that aims to make dental procedures less daunting for many patients. Check ...

Dental visits have never been something people look forward to. From the original barber-surgeons—handy for a shave, a haircut, and a tooth extraction—to the first foot-powered dental drill, which was ...

This is not a drill. Johns Hopkins University students and a dentist are developing an apparatus that dulls the unmistakable high-pitched, anxiety-inducing whir of a dental handpiece when its working ...

Five-year-old Ivanna Chavez has a cavity and she is terrified. The small bespectacled girl shrinks behind her mother as they walk into the El Rio Community Health Center exam room, where pediatric ...

Imaging assisted in the diagnosis and removal of a dental drill head from the airway of a 76-year-old patient who aspirated the object during a procedure, according to a case report recently published ...