Drilling is one of the biggest fears of any person. This causes the people to change or procrastinate their decision seeing a dentist. Well it is just a matter of years when new avenues will open and nobody will put off visiting their dentist.

The name of this new technology is Raman Spectroscopy. The basic purpose of this machine is to detect the process of tooth decay as early as possible, which can eliminate the process of both drilling and filling.

This technology identifies the changes in tooth by evenly scattering out the light, which allows the dentist to analyze the different parts of the tooth that are more likely to go through the decay.

This process is done by a very simple method, which involves placement of a fiber optic on the tooth and the rest just displays out on the machine that shows different areas of tooth that allows the dentist to determine the dental health.

This technology allows one to study the different chemical changes that go through the teeth, as well as to differentiate the healthy teeth from diseased ones on the basis of the different light patterns.

The dentists are suggesting that this is going to be a huge breakthrough in the world of dentistry. This technique is not only going to increase the number of show ups at the dentists but a lot of people would take greater interest in carding for their dental hygiene.

Holistic dentistry is a field of dentistry dealing with integrating the mind, body and spirit in to the field of dentistry. Conventional dentistry deals only with the teeth and how to treat existing diseases. But holistic or alternative dentistry has several principles like
• The physical and mental state is very important and it plays an important role in influencing dental health. The opposite is also true with dental ill health influencing the whole body in general.
• It supposes that dental disease can be a side effect of other bodily ailments.
• Diet is very important in influencing dental health.
• Nutritional curing as well as a good diet is integral to a complete healing approach to dentistry.
• Additional dietary help can be obtained by vitamins, minerals, herbs and food supplements.
There’s really no proof supporting holistic dentistry over conventional dentistry but anything which advocates maintaining overall good health can’t be completely bad, right? And quite a few views of holistic dentistry ridiculed by conventional medicine have now proved to be true. For example, The FDA has recently upheld a ruling that mercury can be responsible for whole lot of chronic health problems and has advised dentists to discontinue use of the material. Holistic London dentistry has been long advocating removal of old mercury fillings and replacing them with newer white colored fillings. Initially, this was ridiculed as an underhanded method of making money. But I guess they have been proved right!

Today dental problems are increasing rapidly and the debutant step is put forwards by the King’s College based in London to start up with Child Oral Health Improvement Programs. This initiative is also recognized to be the first step undertaken globally. It was in the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce Conference 22, the greatest public and dental health specialists planned to start with the exploration on the measure to eradicate dental problems in kids below 20 years of age.WHO is the one supporting the task force and is also raised by Professor Raman Bedi belonging to the King’s College London. The step put forward is to affect nine countries including Mexico, China, United States, India, and South Africa thus spreading across millions of children and their parents. Slowly, it is to reach out to thirty different countries thus eradicating oral problems entirely.

Professor Bedi talked about the tooth problems, its causes and consequences during the conference. He also pointed out the major cause to be the exposure towards fluorides and increased consumption of sugar. He also explained that each and every child in the world should be experiences good oral health. Professor noted that one of the common problems seen in children is the dental cavity and this is to be well approached on an international basis to decline the number and finally throwing it out of the society sooner.

The Director of WHO Global Oral Health Programme, Dr Poul Erik Peterson also pointed the importance of dental problems and the need to remove it completely from the society as a whole. He also conveyed that the major problem exists among the developing and developed countries and the issue is to be seriously met to have a wonderful tomorrow free of worries!

“People of London put up a brave smile even when terror struck. However, a worry found in many of them is to having to smile with one or more missing teeth. This needs correction,” remarks a renowned dentist in London.

So, which are the most commonly missing teeth or smaller in shape than usual? It is either the wisdom teeth or the lower second premolar. It can also be either missing or peg shaped upper lateral incisors too.

The February issue of American Journal Dental Association suggests that there is a correlation between hypodontia of the permanent teeth and malignancy of ovaries. Scientists at University of Lexington compared 50 women with ovarian cancer to 100 women without the disease. The data revealed that 20 out of 100 ovarian cancer patients suffered from hypodontia. In a healthy women case, it is only 3 out of 100 women who had the condition of hypodontia.

This study is especially helpful because ovarian cancer is difficult to be detected at early stages and hypodontia can be used as indicator or marker for identifying the risk of ovarian cancer. It is well known that when a malignancy is detected earlier, the treatment options are broad and one can get rid of it soon.

Having said so, the study results send warning bells to people not to neglect of dental problems even if they are minute and do not interfere with day-to-day living such as hypodontia. A regular visit to a dentist can make one aware of their dental health and it is essential.