Penetration Estimation in SEM, EDAX Dental Imaging Systems for Desensitization Application

Abstract

Background: In the dental field, many people undergo an extreme fear of injections, which is referred to as trypanophobia. The medical procedures that involve injections in the dental field to create numbness raises a certain level of discomfort to all of the patients to an extent that the patients avoid treating their teeth or show an anxious or avoidance behavior. Hence, needle phobia is one of the more common phobias amongst people but was not officially recognized as a phobia in dentistry for a long time. In rural areas, some patients, mainly elderly people, might go away without treating their damaged tooth due to fear of injections. Aim: Thus, setting this as the major point of consideration, the researchers have put forth a new concept of dental treatment of creating desensitization without injections rather by adopting a new concept as “iontophoresis”, which causes the ions of specific charges to penetrate the semipermeable membrane, which helps in performing surgeries in the dental field. In the present manuscript, the ‘iontophoresis’ method, along with the imaging systems, was adopted and 45 tooth samples were taken and tested with four different ionic gels that are used in the dental field, and the results were analyzed using the imaging systems of SEM and EDAX for clear analysis. Results: The results through these imaging systems show that the ions have penetrated the tooth, which causes a desensitizing effect in the tooth and makes it numb, so that dental operations can be performed easier and with more perfection. The process of performing dental surgery with a needless process is that the patient to be treated by the dentist is exposed to a gel with electrodes wherein the ions penetrate the tooth, which causes numbness. Conclusion: The incorporation of needle-free injection through the concept of iontophoresis and imaging systems in the dental field introduces a new era in the field of dentistry, making the process simple.