Detecting hidden cavities with a laser cavity scanner

The Diagnodent tool is used as a part of every one of our check-ups as a means of detecting hidden cavities.

Traditionally, when dentists were looking for holes in your teeth they used a dental pick. The first picture illustrates how these can fail to identify the true depth of existing cavities in your teeth.

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In the second picture, the Diagnodent, or ‘Laser Cavity Scanner’ uses a high-tech beam of laser light to reach down into areas that the pick was simply unable to access. Diagnosis is instant, accurate, and 100% comfortable. Any reading on the machine above 20 is a hole.

We suggest to patients to get it fixed now rather than waiting for the hole to grow bigger, but the option is always in your hands.

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