Biomimetic Dentistry techniques continue to minimize the need for Root Canal Therapy and Crowns (or caps as they are sometimes known).  Biomimetic Dentistry is a minimally invasive advanced adhesive technique in which only decayed or cracked dentin, or the weak enamel, is replaced.  Your healthy tooth structure remains and no longer needs to be removed.

As I remove more and more silver-mercury restorations, I continue to see evidence of the leakage and expansion of these old filings.  The leakage allows germs to get under the filling and the expansion causes parts of the tooth to develop cracks.  The cracks, untreated, propagate and eventually cause a big piece of tooth to break off.

In preparing for a recent presentation I was asked to give on this topic, I again reviewed the original research reports and am more dedicated than ever to supporting this paradigm shift in dentistry.  To this end, I and a small group of leaders in Biomimetic Dentistry, founded the Academy of Biomimetic Dentistry in February.  I am the president of this not-for-profit group which is fostering this technique, while trying to find ways to get the information out to the public.  An increasing number of patients are finding me on the web and travelling to Greenlawn to obtain this “Tooth Conserving”  dentistry.

“No tooth deserves a crown.  The age of adhesive rebuilding is here and now.  The science is clear and succinct.  Adhesive treatment is analytically based and predictable. “  Journal of the Arizona Dental Association, Oct 2009

Xylitol has been shown to actually help prevent decay.  Right now, I'm encouraging patients with high decay risk to chew gum sweetened only with xylitol, twice a day.  No other sweetener should be present in the gum.  Spry gum is an example.