New Dental Technology

Biomedical Engineers Improve Dental Imaging And Care is a Science Daily article about new dental care technology. Medical care has become very business-like in America. Medical advances frequently are tied to technological breakthroughs which in turn are manufactured by some very promising new companies as well as more established giants like General Electric.

A topic of the linked article is cone beam imaging technology which is a type of computerized tomography or CT for short. It enables dentists to take a series of two dimensional x-rays around a patient's jaw. Each degree around the jaw is occasion for a distinct x-ray yet amazingly a patient absorbs less radiation than accrues from conventional x-rays. Greater detail and accuracy are further advantages. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are credited with ushering in changes in dental treatment.

In addition to diagnostic advantages the construction of devices like bridges could be advanced by technology. The idea is to add strength to devices like dental crowns while decreasing the weight of the material used. Zirconium is such a substance and could be utilzed to advance dentistry.