Modern dentistry, though already highly developed and multifunctional, continues making steps forward and widening the specter of its service, constantly improving its quality. The process of teeth treatment is becoming less and less painful, traumatic and the diagnostic of diseases is more exact on the earliest levels of its development. One of the most actual innovational today’s technologies is minimal invasive dentistry. What does it mean? Let us figure out.
The whole procedure is possible thanks to the early diagnostic technologies. The earlier caries will be discovered – the easier it will be defeated. Therefore, its main goals are preventive and treatment measures avoiding surgical intrusion except in case where the damage is too big and nothing else can save the situation. The sense of minimal invasive technologies is to save as much natural tissues of the tooth as possible because no materials can be compared to it according to the aesthetic or functional qualities. The nature itself took care about providing us with the proper materials so it’s important to help them be as functional as possible instead of replacing them with artificial stuff that requires much ruination of the tooth and the process is often traumatic and painful. Earlier, when medicine was less developed, there were many problems with such methods, as: low level of primary diagnostics that didn’t give possibility to determine the earliest stage of the caries; lack of technical possibilities to remove the necrotic tissues and to control their amount; lack of adhesion in materials used, so that they were able to hold in mouth only with the help of mechanic retention.
Modern level of diagnostic allows seeing even not only the beginning of caries development but determining predisposition to it and taking measures on this stage already. Minimal invasive techniques’ aims – to minimize the damage of natural tooth issues and to use adhesive materials to increase the retention without surgery and traumas.