No injections - No Drills - Fillings

Anyone who has had dental treatment in their past will certainly remember two things - the injection and the drill. Well things certainly are changing. A new type of dentistry being practiced by Gentle Dental Cambridge Ltd dentists requires no injections and no drill!!! 

Instead, the drill is replaced by a silent device which literally "blows" the cavity away via advanced particle beam technology known as air abrasion. Most patients report little if any sensitivity to the procedure. Another big advantage is that the patient no longer has a period of time during which he/she must wait for the numbness to wear off. 

Although air abrasion does not replace the drill in every instance, it is an ideal technology to repair teeth that have early or superficial cavities - a technique that is being called micro-dentistry. These small cavities are then filled with a tooth-coloured material called a composite resin, which results in a virtually invisible filling.

For the first time we can now treat our patients without anaesthetics and without the noise associated with the high-speed drill. Our patients are very enthusiastic about air abrasion - it is usually painless, and it often means less time under the bright light of the dentist's chair. It is absolutely fantastic for use on children or anyone who has anxiety about dental treatment.

Due to the ability to prepare teeth without a needle, drill, noise, or pain, micro-dentistry is changing the image of dentistry in patient's eyes forever.