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David L. Rodrick DDS
Micro-Dentistry

Many people fear dentistry until they experience the gentle process of air abrasion and micro - dentistry. This technique takes the emphasis off of pain and fear and transforms it to conservative, healthy and esthetic dental care.

Air Abrasion, Alternative to the Drill: The old method let decay get to a more advanced stage before it was detectable.

Often, fissures are narrower than the explorer tip, making traditional diagnosis difficult.

Old Method

With New Micro - Dentistry techniques: With new Micro - Dentistry techniques we can catch those cavities much sooner causing little or no discomfort to our patients. Here is how the new method works.

Finding and treating decay as soon as possible

Removing stain with a Micro Abrasion Unit
* A Micro Abrasive Unit sprays a gentle spray of fine powder and air, that removes only the tooth decay, leaving the solid tooth structure intact.

Decay evidenton X-ray

Removing stain and decay
Removing decay without anesthetic injections, sparing as much healthy tooth structure as possible.
Continue abrading until all the stain and decay is eliminated. Anesthesia is frequently unnecessary

Cavity preparation completed
Fill with an esthetically pleasing and long lasting white composite filling material.
Etch and place bonding agent. Place flowable composite material. Cure with laser light for 10 seconds

Finished restoration of tooth
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