MICROSURGERY IN DENTISTRY
Blog Five. Dated 20 Jan 2026.
THE advancements in medical sciences have successfully introduced and demonstrated the applicability of MICROSURGERY. This gradually changed the concepts of surgical intervention relatively easier. It further simplified the surgical procedures and processes. Also, the simplicity enabled the reduction in the time required for the patient to be at the hospital for surgery.
The purpose of this writing is to instigate the extension of MICROSURGERY to DENTISTRY, as well. Feel this should be possible. Its introduction to dentistry could ease the treatment of patients.
Will try to project this visualization with reference to an example where microsurgery can be practically applicable. In the treatment of dentistry, when a patient goes to the dental doctor, and points about his discomfort and pain with respect to a particular tooth and how it is disturbing to him; the doctor examines the tooth in the first instance; and later invariably takes an X-ray of the tooth, comes out with a black and white photograph to show the patient, the decayed channels under the tooth 🦷 and suggest the treatment necessary. Hitherto, dental doctors have been treating such complaints by the conventional age old methods of superficial filling when the channel in the form of a canal is opening out as a cavity. If it is not open cavity, suggestion to remove the affected tooth and replacement by an artificial tooth doing root canal intervention follow. This conventional approach is painful, time consuming and calling for a number of visits to the dental doctor’s clinic.
Research and development of microsurgical procedures could simplify the treatment with the introduction of a microbial needle to the affected canal or channel that could help its cleaning by suction and removing the infected part and then its filling alleviating the patient’s discomfort, resorting to minimal intervention; making the job easier to the patient and the doctor.
The objective of this writing is to adapt microsurgery in dentistry, assuming its ease of application beneficial to the patient and the doctors .
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