RESEARCH 20/01/2010 - Going to the dentist will soon be less painful. Prepares, in fact, to go into the attic to remove the dreaded drill cavities. Within three to five years latter you can treat 'only' with a jet of plasma, or with flashes of cold gas plasma, if sprayed in the cavity, the tooth to clean up all the bacteria and remove the infected tissue without damaging enamel.
To revolutionize the world of dentistry suggesting this technique is the team of Stefan Rupf Saarland University in Hamburg. According to their studies, within a few seconds the lightning plasma would be able to reduce by 10 000 times the concentration of bacteria in dental, without damaging the integrity of the tooth. It also confirms the Journal of Medical Microbiology in his articles.
The plasma gas is now in use to sterilize surgical instruments sensitive to heat, the temperature of the process, in fact, does not exceed 50 degrees. German researchers used a cold plasma and painless for their research and have already used on a dentin from extracted human teeth and 'carious' by two major bacterial decay, Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus casei. Experts have bombed the teeth in test tubes for 6, 12 or 18 seconds and found this to be adequate to remove the infected tissue. The longer the tooth is exposed to the plasma jet greater the density of bacteria removed. "Thanks to the low temperature can kill microbes while preserving the teeth," Rupf said in a statement published by Ansa. "Research in this field has already made enormous progress - Rupf concludes - and here in 3-5 years clinical treatment of caries with the plasma will be reality." No more nightmares to the dentist.