Micro –Dentistry and Micro –Endodontic are the dental treatments performed under dental operating microscope .Traditionally dental treatment are being performed with “necked” eyes(without used of any type of magnification device ).This type of necked eyes dentistry tends to be “blind”. It generally misunderstood the structure and substructure of teeth , which affects on life –long stability of teeth.
The goal of Micro-Dentist is to identify the unsound tooth structure ,which is a treat to the long-term stability of the tooth .
Micro-Dentistry is based on actual “vision” rather than “feel”of the doctor.
In india ,to the date ,very few Dentist and endodontics using dental operating microscope in their practice ,probably very less than 10 %.
Advantage of Micro-Dentistry .
Increases precision and accuracy.
Minimally invasive
Increase the effectiveness of debridement results in greater predictability of regeneration procedure and cosmetic procedure.
Very minute diseases that tend to be missed out with the necked eye can be easily diagnosed under microscope. E.g. very minute tooth fracture.
Here is the example how microscope actually shows minute details .like crack line on teeth .