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While we’ve been more than amicable with dentists in the past, even going so far as helping them deal with the guff of digging pencil shavings from between your teeth, we have a dirty little secret. Deep down inside, we despise dentists. We loathe them. And not because they’re not the sweetest, cuddliest living beings in the universe, because lord knows they are, but because of all of that damn drilling. But no more! If we have our way, drilling will be the thing of the past.
Icon, developed by dental-materials manufacturer DMG, does away with both the drill and the waiting time. A dentist simply slides a thin plastic applicator between the patient�s teeth and squirts the cavity with hydrochloric acid, which etches away the enamel to access the tooth�s deeper layers. Using a fresh applicator, he then injects a low-viscosity resin into the gaps in the tooth�s lattice and hardens the resin with a quick flash of high-energy blue light to fortify the tooth.
Hell, if it wasn’t for all of that drilling I might actually go to the dentist once in a while. DMG, you might just be my new hero.
