If you cannot detect the disease, how can you treat it?
Dentists often experience anxiety when attempting to diagnose the phenomenon known as hidden caries. A suspicious-looking tooth presents a treatment dilemma for dentists. Should the tooth be opened up? What if no caries is found? Should the tooth just be watched, or does that give caries more time to destroy the tooth's surface?

A changing caries model: due to floridation, caries has gone "underground". While helping to improve the oral health of many Americans, fluoridation has resulted in harder tooth enamel. Incipient caries lesions that once began on the tooth's surface have no migrated below the surface.

Proven clinical results: Treatment decisions require a higher degree of certainty. The DIAGNOdent laser caries detection aid removes the doubt from treatment decisions regarding hidden caries ore questionable stained grooves. The device's ability to see into occlusal pits and fissures enables dentists to treat sub-surface caries lesions with confidence.  

Great News!!

No more guessing when it comes to your child’s oral health!

The latest technology in caries detection is now available at Kids Dental Care!

It is our goal to help you maintain and improve your child’s oral health. To achieve this goal, the dental care that your child receives at Kids Dental Care now includes state of the art equipment.

During a routine dental exam, dentists traditionally use an instrument called the ‘explorer’ to detect decay (cavities). Different examiners could easily differ on detecting small cavities due to several factors, such as the sharpness of the dental explorer and the tactical feel of the dentist. It is easy to miss a small incipient cavity on a tooth surface if that surface is not explored thoroughly or if it is in a hidden location under the hard surface of the tooth. Furthermore, there is always a concern of transferring microscopic tooth decay particles packed with decay-forming bacteria from a decayed tooth to a healthy one while using the traditional dental explorer. As a result, many small cavities go undetected only to progress into advanced cavities which require considerable tooth structure reduction to treat. All the above drawbacks can be eliminated with the latest technology in caries detection which is now employed at Kids Dental Care. This technology uses a small laser instrument called the DIAGNOdent, which scans your child’s teeth with harmless laser light searching for hidden decay.

We can’t cure what we can’t see!

Locating hidden decay before it destroys tooth structure (from the inside out) is a major goal for modern dentistry. The widespread use of fluoride supplements in dental materials, toothpastes and drinking water has made tooth surfaces harder and more resistant to decay. However, diagnosing cavities beneath the hard surface is more challenging because the disease process can start through microscopic defects in the hard surface enamel and can readily spread into the softer tooth structure beneath the surface.

X-rays and probing with an explorer are limited to detecting sub surface decay, particularly when the cavity is in its early stages. Fortunately, the new DIAGNOdent is a major breakthrough that allows the dentist to monitor the areas below the hard surfaces. The DIAGNOdent allows the dentist and the hygienist to locate hidden decay, and with treatment stop the spread of disease before it destroys the tooth from within.

Kid friendly

The unique instrument provides instant feedback on the health of your child’s tooth. A pen like probe simply glides over tooth surfaces constantly checking the health of the tooth. A number scale and an alarm signals the operator when there are signs of hidden decay. This technology is completely safe and pain free.