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July 30, 2014

Diode Laser – From Gum Diseases to Laser Root Canal Treatment

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: , — Ralph C Dreher @ 2:37 AM

Laser dentistry is an advanced technology in the dentistry. This technology existed from gum diseases to the root canal treatments. Dentistry is the home for laser technologies. It is not scary as the people imagine. Dentists enjoy the thrive of new technology.

Diode laser
Diode laser is a technology through which the patients are operated very smoothly in the soft tissues of the teeth. This is a compact device that generates a beam of light, which is focused on the targeted tissue of the mouth. When the light beam projects on that area it cuts away the damaged part by vaporizing it keeping safe the surrounding area. This also sterilizes the area and coagulates the blood vessels so that bleeding and infection will be in reduced amount. With this diode laser the traditional methods of drilling can be avoided which causes pain. There are several types of laser dentistry that includes hard tissues and soft tissues. The diode laser is mainly used to cut the soft tissues in the mouth. This laser can solve many problems like:

  • The diode laser can cure gum diseases. It removes the tissues affected and reshapes the gum. This improves the oral hygiene.
  • It any cancer sore occurs the diode laser reduces the pain and also reduces to not happen in the future again.
  • With diode laser, the gum reshaping can be done through soft tissue crown lengthening. This gives healthier root structure and also provides stronger base for the teeth.
  • With the diode laser, tooth whitening can be done in one hour.
  • Diode laser produces the pressure and heat to remove the infections in the teeth root with no drilling and hand files.

This treatment can be done without anesthesia and during the treatment the patient must use glasses to protect the eyes from radiations.

Benefits of diode laser treatment

  • The treatment is done in very less time
  • No side effects
  • Healing time is very less
  • This procedure causes less pain and bleeding or stitches
  • No local anesthesia is need to operate with this diode laser

Drawbacks:

  • Only the trained and experts can do this kind of treatments.
  • No dental insurance plans
  • It is expensive compared to the conventional methods.

This technology existed from many years and with this the patients and dentists will have many benefits.

July 19, 2014

Impact of Medical Technology Advancement on Human Civilization

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Winson @ 7:16 AM

Medical technology involves the procedures, equipments and processes through which medical care is delivered to the patient. Medical technology is an advanced technology and has an impact on human civilization. Advances in the medical technology improves the treatment with decreasing the risk. The advancement in the medical technology reduces the errors and protects the patient’s life.

The advancement of medical technology includes, advanced techniques, advanced equipments and discovery of new medicines.

Advanced techniques: Technological advancement in medical care plays an important role to save patient’s life.

  • Sensor and wearable technology: Sensor and wearable devices are used to collect the patient data. These sensors are placed on the patients body. These sensors acts as an alarm which sends information to the health care provider. It sends information when a patient fall down from bed, it also gives information if any infection occurs at the site of surgery. This decreases the failure of surgeries and decreases the risk after treatment.
  • Telemedicine: Telemedicine uses telecommunication or IT to get medical health care even though we are far. Most of the rural areas do not get all the services provided in the metropolitan cities, telemedicine helps them in emergency cases. Patients in ICU containing telehealth services are recovered faster than patients in normal ICU.
  • Pharmacogenomics: It is the study of genetic variations in response to drugs. Tailoring treatment plans to individuals and anticipating the onset of certain diseases offers promising benefits for healthcare efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. Pharmacogenomics helps to reduce the excess healthcare spending due to adverse drug events, misdiagnoses and other unnecessary costs.

Medical equipments: Advancement of medical equipments like diagnosis and surgical equipments reduces the risks and treat the diseases without any risk or failure.

  • In older days, neonatal deaths were more due to lack of equipment to diagnose and treat diseases. Now a days advancement in the medical equipments increases the child birth rates. Medical equipments include special ventilators and artificial pulmonary surfactants to treat lungs and breathing problems in infants. These advanced equipments saves the infant’s life.
  • Another advanced technology in case of heart attacks. In olden days, most of the people die if heart attack occurs. Later, Lidocaine was used to treat arrhythmia condition of heart and later by pass surgery to treat heart attacks.
    Later angioplasty was used to treat revascularization along with stems to open the closed valves. Now a days, better diagnostic equipments have come that detects the abnormal heart beat and drug eluting stents.

By use of advanced equipments, patients life is improved without any risk and the mortality rate was decreased from the past decades.

Discovery of new medicines: Medicines also play an important role in the treatment of diseases. In olden days, there is no medicine for some diseases like cancer and HIV. Now a days new medicines are developed to treat in early stages and control or relieve from symptoms of disease in advanced stages.
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