Tag: DENTIST

For many people, the mere sound of a dentist's drill starting up is enough to make them sweat and panic. But researchers have created a new device that cancels out the drill's high-pitched whir while allowing patients to hear the dentist's voice. According to BBC News, the device, which was developed jointly at King's College London, Brunel University and London South Bank University, contains ...

Somewhere between our third and fifth root canal, we came to the conclusion that dentists are sick, twisted people. After all, anyone who truly wants to spend a career punishing people for enjoying candy has got to have some sort of serious God complex. Sure, pulling down a cool six figures for making small talk with drooling patients may "sweeten" the deal, but is it really worth living your life ...

Dental students need fear no longer torturing real patients. Robotics company tmsuk, in conjunction with several Japanese universities, has designed a robot for use in training those dentists-to-be, continuing a long-standing Japanese love affair with robotics. The robot, named "Hanako," is programmed to act and react like a real patient. She performs random actions such as sneezing and ...

No one likes going to the dentist, so imagine the discomfort of being a patient for a dentist-in-training. So, in order to avoid pain, damage, and deep dental trauma, BBC reports that a professor at the Nippon Dental University Hospital in Tokyo has developed an interesting solution. A sensor-laden, blinking and gurgling robot named Simroid acts as feedback, documenting and alerting the trainee ...

In what may be the single most frightening, and unintentionally awesome, gadget news to ever come across our desktops, the PediSedate is essentially a nitrous oxide-delivery device disguised as a video game. Designed to be used by pediatric dentists, the device essentially serves as a way to distract kids with Game Boy goodness while nitrous gas prepares them to be operated upon. Really, it's ...

We're not even going to pretend we fully grasp what's going on here, but the long and short of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences' latest findings are that cell phones can trigger the release of mercury from one's fillings. Yes, seriously. The study asserts that out of 14 test subjects with fillings, those who used mobile phones had a statistically significant increase of mercury from urine ...

The squeal and pain of the dentists' drill may soon be a thing of the past as oral caretakers look to the future... which, of course, means lasers. This is far from the first application of lasers in dental surgery, but until now they haven't been strong enough to penetrate teeth. Because the lasers don't require physical contact between the tooth and the tool, vibrations are greatly reduced, ...