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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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Probably every person has encountered the problem of dental disease. Toothache causes unbearable suffering, depriving the sufferer of sleep, appetite, mood and health. Dental treatment is recommended to be carried out immediately as soon as the first signs of tooth decay or slight painful sensations in the area of the tooth appear. Timely elimination of the cause of toothache in most cases allows you to cure and save the tooth.
Modern dental treatment includes a series of different methods, many of which are completely painless and effective. These include ultrasound dental treatment, laser and high-frequency diagnostic equipment, computer technology, orthopedic methods, and microscope dental treatment.
[ Ultrasound dental treatment
It is believed that ultrasound treatment of teeth consists only of cleaning the surface of the dental row from tartar and plaque. However, ultrasound is irreplaceable in surgical dentistry as a means effective in the treatment of "wise", dystopic and impacted dental structures. Ultrasound can also penetrate into such places in the oral cavity that are ineffective or physically impossible to reach with a dental drill. Ultrasonic treatment of teeth in dentistry is called piezosurgery.
Laser therapy
Laser dental treatment is the most common method of treatment in modern surgical dentistry. The use of laser therapy gives a lot of positive results, for example:
- the patient feels almost no pain during the procedure;
- the use of laser is a bloodless method of treatment;
- tissue restoration after treatment occurs very quickly, since they are almost not subject to destruction;
- Laser therapy is an excellent disinfectant method.
The laser is also indispensable in gum treatment, because it easily removes gum pockets, cleans the surface from tartar and plaque, and simultaneously with these procedures, disinfects damaged tissues. In addition, the laser has the ability to align the gum, making it denser.
Laser dental treatment is not practiced in every dental clinic, as this type of therapy requires special equipment and specialists with experience working with lasers. In this regard, this type of treatment is quite expensive.
High frequency diagnostic devices
Modern prestigious dental clinics begin dental treatment with diagnosing the disease using innovative computer technologies that do not involve X-rays, an intraoral camera and a visiograph. These diagnostic methods allow saving a significant amount of time for both the patient and the dentist, since the diagnostic results are displayed directly on the dentist's computer screen. In addition, diagnostics using this equipment helps to identify dental diseases at the earliest stages of their development, and also allows tracking the course and consequences of treatment of these diseases.
Dental treatment using a microscope
Treatment of teeth and dental canals inflamed due to periodontitis or pulpitis is carried out by modern medicine using a microscope. The microscope allows the dentist to visualize even the smallest cracks and canals, which are later subject to filling, due to which the risk of any complications is reduced to a minimum.
Dental treatment with a microscope is becoming increasingly popular today, as this method allows not only to provide high-quality filling of the patient’s smallest dental cracks, but also to diagnose the first signs of dental diseases, remove obsolete pins and post-and-cores, and re-treat a previously filled tooth.
Orthopedic dental treatment
Orthopedic dental treatment has also changed. Modern dentistry uses highly effective drugs such as polyurethane, zirconium dioxide, nylon, and soft acrylic plastics for treatment. Transformations have also occurred in such an area of dental treatment as prosthetics - now doctors can do without grinding down the dentition, and they also have the ability to attach removable dentures using ultra-fashionable methods.
Restorative dental treatment
More and more often, people who want to make their smile more beautiful and charming turn to dentists. For modern dentists, this task is quite feasible, because today they have the latest restorative materials and prostheses that can completely imitate real, healthy dental tissue.
Treatment of hypersensitive teeth is also not a problem today, as professional products allow eliminating this problem quickly and effectively. The "secret" of treatment is fluorides, due to which submicroscopic CaF2 crystals are formed in dentin tubules, pores of destroyed tooth enamel and dental cement.
Dental treatment, carried out in a timely and high-quality manner, makes it possible to preserve or completely cure teeth.