 Hello everybody, Andrea Mayesty here with Dentalel. I posted something in my page actually the other day talking about how things are changing when it comes to dentists, dentistry as a whole, and specific too if you catch cavities early enough. So we're talking especially in children. You do not need the needle and you do not need the high-speed handpiece to drill out that cavity. So I'm just gonna pop up the article here and if you guys want to even look this up oh wait a minute maybe the article won't come up right away. Oh you know what I think I just clicked the link that's why. Sorry guys hold that thought. Here we go so I click the page instead but and I'll leave this link up for you guys at the bottom of the video too if you want to read more about it. So this was posted actually June 19th 2019. So not that long ago it's June 29th today. Wow so it is almost July. But basically what I want to talk about here is that this has truly changed things so much and changed things for the better. So I'm not going to talk about this this article specifically but I am going to leave the reference to this for you guys at the bottom of the video here. So pretty much I have been a mobile dental hygienist since last year so I actually go to people's homes and I clean their teeth or more recently I did purchase what is called Advantage Arrest by Oral Science which is a silver diamine fluoride that does exactly what this is meaning when I apply that to a little cavity so if it's not too large and not into the nerve then I can actually apply that liquid it's a drop maybe two depending on the size but that's it and that will actually that will help to stop the cavity so that cavity will not get larger and it actually helps to remineralize the top of it so that it's no longer soft and sticky but that it becomes hard because we know as dental professionals when we're looking inside the mouth for a cavity we take our mirror we take the the explorer and check to see if that spot that might be looking brown black doesn't look quite right we check to see if that is sticky if it's sticky that usually means it is a cavity so the nice thing about this Advantage Arrest is that you can put a drop on that area and if it's not a cavity it does not turn color so it does not turn it's kind of like a black so when you put on that drop you don't notice the color change right away but it will stain the teeth brown at first and then my patients are telling me it takes about a week and then it becomes black like blacker then black so if it's on the back teeth well that's okay if it's on the front teeth it can look very displeasing right but it's amazing because it works those parents who have heard that their two year old needs to be put under to get cavities fixed because there's no way they can fix the cavities with them staying still for a half an hour they no longer have to do that I mean if the cavities too large and to the nerve yes they will still have to be put to sleep to get things done but if the cavity is so tiny that we can actually stop it before it gets to that point I think that is amazing so actually I can show you guys quickly let me just pause this for one moment and I'm just gonna show you guys something okay so I just popped up the the products that I use for that to happen so this is called advantage arrest and it comes in either a bottle which is almost $300 or you can get them in a unit dose which is honestly pretty much the same price it's a lot more cost-effective to get the bottle because you can use a drop at a time whereas if you were to buy them in a unit dose yes it looks nice and everything but it's way it just costs way too much trust me and the nice thing too is that if you guys click this link you can read more about it and you can listen to some videos watch some videos because it does stain the teeth black like absolutely that is the con so actually this this is a good picture it does stain the teeth black like you see these black marks here it looks like they tried to arrest a cavity that almost looks like a crown or an implant or something but it's black and that's obviously not ideal but it does stop the cavity so and this is actually a perfect example where they have stuck the cavity but yes it is black whereas before you don't notice the blackness it's just this hole there right so the black part is the only con because I'll say it again and I'll say it a lot it does stain the teeth black but the stuff is truly amazing and that it will stop that cavity and kill that cavity so I use it a lot in nursing homes because even if they have a cavity they can't go to a dentist to get it fixed if they do their caregiver literally has to take off a pretty much a whole day and it's just too traumatic for them like if you see seniors in nursing homes they don't want to leave that in that nursing home because that's just something that they're so used to so this product is so awesome because I can actually apply a drop is usually good for two or three teeth and this will stop that cavity so we don't have to worry about okay I know they have a cavity here but they can't make it to a dentist I know it's going to get worse I know it's it's going to cause them pain this will stop that from happening yes it stains the that area black but people don't care especially in a nursing home you know people don't really care I do though I do try to cover it up with a Fuji it's a glass ionomer Fuji filling material but it's not perfect it does cover up the black but it doesn't look like that perfect composite filling that we would often see right so it does it's kind of like a thin layer you can put over top I am a a restorative hygienist so I can do that that is within my scope of practice but I can't drill anything out so I can just apply it over top of those black areas and it does work sometimes but depends on how black is black so be careful with the front teeth and that's why they actually have us download the patient consent form because this lets them know that oh okay lots is happening here I was hoping it would just open up one form well anyways you guys can have a look at that anyway oh maybe it's here actually this is kind of cool I think I'm gonna look at that afterwards but anyways as you guys can see this is an amazing product if you're not using it in your office yet you should be talk to them if you're lucky enough to have your own practice this stuff is amazing now I'm in I'm in Canada so I charge about $25 per application so like I said it covers two to three areas depending on the size per drop and if I if I'm going to cover it up with a Fuji filling material I charge about $45 for that so per capsule and it's usually good for two teeth okay so the Fuji there's not as much in there it's usually good for about two teeth so I say it's about $45 if they want me to cover that up for two teeth so just to kind of give you guys an idea but yeah this is just something that I felt I had to talk about I had posted the article in my my page here so feel feel feel free to have a look because patients are asking about this if they're not not asking when you tell them you can offer them something for their children that doesn't involve a needle or a high-speed handpiece to drill out that that cavity they will think you're the most amazing person ever and they will go wait a minute what how how do you do that so this is something that you should be learning more about if you have questions please let me know and thank you guys so much for listening