Dentistry has made quite a few leaps. When I was young fillings were metal. Now they are a putty that dries within seconds with uv light shine upon it.
Also, braces are practically invisable now and 3d printed
Some are. My kid just got some in a few months ago, look just like what I had in the 90s
I had a kid on my school bus ask me what color of braces she should get.
Orthopedic surgeon:
*repeatedly pulls string attempting to start up a chainsaw*
My kid’s orthopedist had a saw that was a pizza cutter sized cutting wheel, and it stopped when it touched your skin. He demonstrated on his own hand before he started removing cast.
it stopped when it touched skin, or it didn’t cut the skin?
the cast saws that I am familiar with have an oscillating motion that is small enough that skin just moves with the teeth instead of being cut by them. a saw that had sensors to know when it touched skin seems unlikely.
a saw that had sensors to know when it touched skin seems unlikely
I’ve never seen it in a healthcare setting, but that kind of safety mechanism is already a thing in larger saws - some pretty impressive demos on the web. Iirc it effectively destroys the machine if it goes off, but most of us would rather buy a new table saw than lose a few fingers. …and that was the tech years ago, may well have improved since I went down that rabbit hole.
Saw stop still owns the patent afaik and has even stopped other similar techs from taking hold because the patent is so stupid generic… Iirc Bosch is one such alt that got shit canned. Last I knew saw stop was pushing for legislation to require the tech… Because they own the market.
(I am years out of date on this and going on memory… Pretty sure the legislation died)
That sounds correct, I think he might have explained it that way but I was too cooked by watching him use a cast saw on his bare hand to retain.
This is why https://youtu.be/Bx1AiQdMQro
Science is crazy
Look up how hip replacements are done. They use a saw, drill and hammer. Like how they hammer in the metal into the femur. You hear the metal on metal sound. Ting ting ting ting. Literally a body repair shop.
Wait till you hear about orthopedic surgery
I hear there is that teeth re-growing biotech coming,
Been hearing that for decades now. I’ll believe it when I can access it.
i have dental connections. what i understand is there are two different things to watch. there’s a treatment that might be able to get your own body to grow another (final) set of teeth. theoretically humans can grow 3 sets, we stop at the second. that’s in the works, sounds pretty painful. the other treatment is something that can regrow dentin or enamel or i can’t remember it’s been a while, but the one they’d be excited about is enamel so it’s probably that? IIRC they both were coming out of South Korea, one in phase 1 trials and one still in animal trials.
this is me trying to remember off a conversation with my deceased dad’s friend a couple months ago, so take it with a heaping heap of heaps of salt. my memory ain’t all that great anymore.
We are getting there. There are human trials for a medicine that regrows teeth and another that restores teeth.
when we are able to regrow our own teeth, the dentists may become obsolete
That seems like the type of thing that would still need to be administered very carefully by an expert dentist. Look at the entire field of orthodontics or the product category of braces to see what happens when teeth grow in in the wrong number, position, or orientation. In theory, anyone can perform surgery on themselves with a scalpel they sterilize on their stove top. Very few attempt that for damn good reasons.
could be
Who do you think is going to apply the teeth regrow treatment?
dunno, you?
Never trust a medical profession that hasn’t changed their standard techniques since the Dark Ages. And it also explains why they didn’t join medical doctors in the AMA and created their own ADA with hookers, cocaine and blackjack.
The dentist I use now is also a maxillofacial surgeon.
She discovered that my previous dentist was completely ignoring issues that would have left me toothless, lose part of my jaw, and even kill me with meningitis.
And the guy had made a TAC that clearly showed it all. Dude was laser-focused on getting just implants and more implants to rack those bucks, let tooth repair be damned.
I was lucky that the infection was kept perfectly isolated for years in a granuloma, because my freakishly high pain threshold kept me from noticing it at all.
I’m not going to a ‘dentist’ who just studied ‘dentistry’ ever again.
Well the x-rays have gotten much better. Don’t really need the lead vest anymore.
This reminds me of a lyric by good old John Prine…“We are living in the future. I’ll tell you how I know. I read it in the paper, 15 years ago”.
Extra fast spinning high tech drills though iirc
so fast and powerful they’ll drill right through your tooth, your skull, and into your brain!
they have ultrasound chisels, yknow.
Orthopedics is literally just human carpentry
