Modern Dental Technology - Dr. Les Latner

http://www.leslatnerdds.com One of the neat things about being a dentist is we really get to play with toys. These toys we call instruments, and they do help us provide good, efficient care to patients. We have many of those pieces of equipment, anywhere from several lasers that we have, one to diagnose dental caries, one that helps us in doing surgeries in the mouth. Another piece of hi-tech equipment is known as air abrasion. What air abrasion is, is a small little sand blaster that helps rid the tooth of small amounts of decay so that we don't have to get the dental drill out and take more of the tooth away than is necessary. We also have a number of pieces of equipment to help us with root canals, things that make a root canal not a Jay Leno joke, but something that a person can have performed on them with little or no discomfort, while they're here and getting the work done or post-operative. We're also blessed now to have digital x-rays. What digital x-rays do is help us see on this large screen the x-ray that formerly was very small. As you can tell, by being on the large screen, we can see so much more. And it's up to 97% less radiation than the traditional dental x-rays.