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I think what's being overlooked here by some commenters is the speed of this machine. A normal cavity filling can take 20/30 minutes. Imagine if that could be

I think what's being overlooked here by some commenters is the speed of this machine. A normal cavity filling can take 20/30 minutes. Imagine if that could be cut down to 1 minute with a perfect filling at the end? Even if we are talking about the dentist messing up the pain killing application it'll all be over pretty damn fast.

MOARDONGZPLZ 2y ago
Pfft. That’s nothing. Imagine if it was 30 seconds rather than twice that time? Can’t get better than that.
- cogman10 2y ago
  The actual drilling can be quiet fast. The limiting factor is making sure it isn't so fast that it shatters the tooth. What will take time is bonding the filling. My assumption is that for a regular cavity fill, the drilling will be a much smaller portion of the time than the filling bonding. You can see that in the crown placement video in the article, almost no time is spent removing the outside tooth. The actual spent time is building up the crown.
doubled112 2y ago
Agreed. The freezing doesn't always work for me. If I say "hey, I can feel that" the second dose might work, and it might not. What happens next is that they slow down, and while this sounds like compassion, it also lengthens the time they're drilling into my head while I can feel it. Just building up a resistance to physical torture. Bring it on, movie CIA guy. I think a quick, very intense filling might be better than a long, slow one.
- cogman10 2y ago
  I may be weird about this, but for me when I've been drilled (or even cleaned) and experienced tooth pain the level is 100%. I can't feel more pain. I'm certainly not advocating that dentists don't do their best to numb patients before drilling. What I'm saying is it's fairly likely that by the time they can stop the machine in the case of pain the procedure will be nearly complete and the pain over.

MOARDONGZPLZ 2y ago

Pfft. That’s nothing. Imagine if it was 30 seconds rather than twice that time? Can’t get better than that.

cogman10 2y ago
The actual drilling can be quiet fast. The limiting factor is making sure it isn't so fast that it shatters the tooth. What will take time is bonding the filling. My assumption is that for a regular cavity fill, the drilling will be a much smaller portion of the time than the filling bonding. You can see that in the crown placement video in the article, almost no time is spent removing the outside tooth. The actual spent time is building up the crown.

doubled112 2y ago

Agreed. The freezing doesn't always work for me. If I say "hey, I can feel that" the second dose might work, and it might not. What happens next is that they slow down, and while this sounds like compassion, it also lengthens the time they're drilling into my head while I can feel it. Just building up a resistance to physical torture. Bring it on, movie CIA guy. I think a quick, very intense filling might be better than a long, slow one.

cogman10 2y ago
I may be weird about this, but for me when I've been drilled (or even cleaned) and experienced tooth pain the level is 100%. I can't feel more pain. I'm certainly not advocating that dentists don't do their best to numb patients before drilling. What I'm saying is it's fairly likely that by the time they can stop the machine in the case of pain the procedure will be nearly complete and the pain over.