 Hello everybody Andrea here with dental L. I have been in the dental profession for about 17 years now. I have my own mobile dental hygiene practice and I want to talk to you guys about how I fix cavities in children and adults too depending on the size of the cavity without using a high speed handpiece. When we take out the drill that means we're going to need a needle because we need to freeze the tooth the nerves so that way you're not sore. So nobody likes to go to the dentist when we take out the drill and fix cavities that's why people don't like to get cavities among other reasons but what if there was a way that we could tell you that we can fix your cavity without using a drill certain circumstances do apply and for children we can fix their cavity without them having to go through a half an hour dental procedure with the high speed handpiece needles kids are terrified there are ways to avoid that so let me explain that a little bit for you so just moving on to the next slide here so I'd like to show this to parents of my child patient so when I see a cavity in a two-year-old a four-year-old a five-year-old I'd like to let my parents know parents of my patients know that your child starts to get teeth at seven to nine months sometimes even earlier some kids are born with a tooth or teeth as soon as they get teeth they can get a cavity so imagine having your little 10 month old getting a cavity we can't fix that cavity using a high speed handpiece we can't fix it using a drill we can't give them a needle like that's just overkill right and your baby is not going to sit there to allow us to do that so then we have to put them to sleep all of that what if we could avoid all of that the times have changed things have changed so over to my next slide this is when for primary teeth when your child starts to get their primary teeth coming in they're going to lose their baby teeth but it might not be until they're six years old 10 years old 11 years old so let's just say your child has a cavity in their front tooth here at age three okay I show this chart to parents and I let them know they're not going to lose that tooth until age six so we can't just leave the cavity there it's going to get worse we do have to fix it but there's no point putting them through a dental appointment putting them to sleep using the high speed handpiece to basically cut into the tooth make another hole and fix the cavity using a filling your little three-year-old is not going to go through that so then you have to put them to sleep that's why there's such thing as children's dentistry they specifically put children to sleep to do whatever work they need to at such a young age or if your child's terrified they put children to sleep by what if I told you again there's a different way we can do it where your child doesn't have to be put to sleep they don't need a needle they don't have to be traumatized by the drill I'm going to explain that to you so there's something called silver dining fluoride which I'm actually going to show you guys in the next slide first there is a liquid we can literally apply to that cavity that kills the cavity it kills the bacteria causing the cavity so that cavity cannot get bigger that kills the cavity you don't need a filling on that tooth what the dentist does when they place a filling is they have to take out the cavity with the high speed handpiece that's why you need a needle because that would hurt to take out the cavity with the drill so you might be wondering well how do you take out the cavity then if you don't use a drill this liquid kills the cavity on site so it kills the bacteria causing that cavity so you don't have to take it out the liquid kills it does that make sense so moving on to the next slide quickly here again for you sorry the previous slide so let's say your child's cavity looks like this that is a cavity you can't just leave it alone it's going to get worse if it gets worse it causes pain so we always try to fix it as soon as possible that liquid we put the liquid on yes it looks black that is the catch with the liquid is it does turn the cavity black if we were to put the liquid on and there's no cavity it doesn't do anything so it doesn't turn the tooth black the tissues black none of that it just turns the cavity black so that doesn't look very nice does it but in that case what we can do is we can put a filling over top to cover up the black you don't need the high speed handpiece you don't need the needle and guess what it takes literally two seconds I do this multiple times a day on my child patients it's truly amazing and it's a fraction of the cost in my practice if I were to do a filling on a little child like this it might cost $60 it might cost $100 because it's on both teeth it's hard for me to say without seeing it in person when I apply the liquid it's a lot cheaper it does arrange in price depending on how many teeth kind of what I'm doing but it could be $10 or it could be $20 isn't that amazing a big difference right so would you rather pay $20 or pay $100 probably $20 would you rather put your child through a needle the traumatizing visit of having a a hand a high speed handpiece a drill cutting out a cavity or they have to be put to sleep which is very expensive would you or would you rather that so this liquid is truly amazing we literally put the liquid on it kills the cavity so a couple other things that I want to talk to you guys about I'm going to stop sharing my screen so you can see a full video here so a couple other things that I tell my parents of my trial patients is it does have to be reapplied so that liquid does kill that cavity kills the bacteria but it needs to be reapplied depending on the size of the cavity it could have to be reapplied again in two weeks but typically every three or six months again it depends on the size of the cavity depends on the age of the child depends on if they're cavity prone if they admit to me they're not going to brush twice a day I'm going to want to see them more often to apply that liquid so it doesn't get worse it's $10 to $20 each time but that's still cheaper than going to the dentist to get a filling cutting into the tooth with a high speed handpiece possibly putting them to sleep traumatizing visit you get the idea I've never had a parent say no that sounds horrible I would much rather put them to sleep for several thousand dollars have them get a full set of fillings it's an amazing service this works for children and adults but the catch is you guys if you have a big hole in that tooth where the cavity is close to the nerve the liquid's not going to work it's too far gone you have to go to the dentist for them to take out the cavity with the high speed handpiece possibly even a root canal a bigger filling to kind of hold it together it's hard it's hard to say the liquid will not work if you're in pain if the tooth is very sore already a very big cavity that could signal other problems that I would want them to go to the dentist anyway to get an x-ray and in the x-ray it might show that it's close to the nerve if the cavity is close to the nerve the liquid will not work you need to go to the dentist to get a proper filling does this make sense so I tell all my patients the more frequent when I see them more often is what I'm trying to say I can catch cavities before they get too big we can stop that cavity with the liquid they don't have to worry and then every time I see them for a cleaning I I I just simply reapply that liquid so the cavity doesn't get worse in some cases you you might have gone to the dentist before and they might say you oh you have a couple watch areas the cavity is really really small let's just watch it and see what happens when I see that I put that liquid on right away to kill the cavity so it doesn't have a chance to get worse because my fear is that patient is going to come back the cavity is going to get worse now it's causing them pain when I could have just put the liquid on in the first place it's not going to get worse but you do still have to brush well so this is an amazing thing for children and adults please let me know you guys if you have any questions I am so happy to help and I will talk to you guys very soon I will see you soon bye