Dr. Bobbitt's practice is committed to helping you maintain and improve your
oral health. To achieve this goal, the dental care that you and your family receive
in our office always includes proven, state of the art equipment. Among the newest
technologies is a small laser instrument called the DIAGNOdent, which scans your
teeth with harmless laser light searching for hidden decay. Locating hidden decay
before it destroys tooth structure from the inside out is a major goal for modern
dentistry
Our highly trained
dental auxiliaries take a pen-like probe and simply
glide it over your tooth surfaces checking for
digital readings of laser light reflection. This
technology is completely safe and pain free.
Decay (a cavity) can be extremely
difficult to detect using the conventional explorer
(the "pick") which has been used to detect
decay based on the hardness of the tooth surface.
This laser technology, DIAGNOdent, detects even
the smallest decay at its earliest stage enabling
Dr. Bobbitt to protect and preserve the majority
of healthy tooth structure.
KaVo estimates that the DIAGNOdent technology is
only used in about 14% of US dental offices today.
Studies show that dentists can find only 10% of
decay with a mirror and explorer and x-ray films
only show us 45% of the decay. With X-ray films,
the caries must be through the enamel and a millimeter
or two into the dentin before dentists see it on
a radiograph. What about the other 45%? Without
the DIAGNOdent to diagnose the other 45%, dentists,
by default, cannot find decay soon enough and this
allows caries (decay) to destroy a large amount
of healthy tooth structure before it is diagnosed.
This proven technology will allow us to diagnose
over 90% of pit and fissure decay before it has
destroyed a large amount of health tooth structure.
WATERLASE
MD
Dr. Bobbitt
has been trained in Laser Assisted Dentistry
at the World Clinical Laser Institute and has
been using this high level of soft and hard tissue
laser-assisted dentistry in his practice over
the past two years. HydroPhotonicsTM, a patented
combination of laser energy and water, allows
dentists trained in this technology to perform
a wide range of dental procedures on teeth, gums,
and bone more comfortably.
Backed by
more than 25 years of research, development,
and investigations by countless clinicians and
companies, laser dentistry is entering a new
era of legitimacy, fueled by the versatility
and broad utility of the YSGG laser. The elements
that compose the YSGG laser are a crystal medium
of Yttrium, scandium, gallium, and garnet doped
with erbium and chromium.
The Waterlase
MD laser was first cleared by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) in 1998 and has since received
over 60 additional clearances for a wide range
of procedures on teeth, gums and bone.
The Waterlase
MD Laser is an amazing transformation in dentistry
allowing dentists with training to perform a
wide range of clinical procedures with improved
patient outcomes, less trauma, reduced post-operative
complications and in many cases fewer shots and
less anesthesia. Since you may not need shots
or anesthesia, you may now be able to have dentistry
performed in several areas of your mouth, rather
than having you come back for multiple visits.
