No one will be afraid to go to the dentist any more by the year 2022. Nearly all the pain has been taken out of dentistry already, but patients are only now beginning to catch on. In the next ten years people will come to expect painless, high-quality dental care, and the treatments will be faster, easier, and more thorough than ever before.
Most people are unaware of how advanced dentistry has already become. High-quality anesthetics, 3D printers, digital imaging, basic nanotechnology, and creative patient care are all here today. In the next ten years they will become common and inexpensive. Everyone will know that a dentist can find the problem, go straight to it, and fix it on the first try. What is more, it will not hurt. With modern dental technology even those undergoing the most invasive of dental procedures will only feel the sting of the needle when the anesthetic goes in. Within the next ten years that sting will be gone, and dentistry will be truly painless. What is more, patients will be so well cared for and expertly distracted while the dentist works that they will barely notice even the surgery.
But they won’t need dental surgery, because teeth will be healthier in 2022 than they ever were before. Decades of improving food, water treatment, and readily available preventative care will combine to help people keep their teeth in their heads, and the steady decline of cigarette smoking will not hurt either. Over the last ten years a lot of children have had their teeth “sealed,” which means that a transparent plastic film was bonded to them in their youth and bacteria cannot penetrate it. These children will never have cavities, ever. They will have little need for the dentist in 2022. If sealing does not appeal to you, there are other methods available. Dentists will use silica particles, no larger than a single atom in size, to polish the teeth. This impossibly fine grit will polish a tooth’s surface so impossibly smooth that bacteria can find nothing to cling to. Faced with tooth enamel that is as smooth as glass, the bacteria simply fall away.
MRI and other imaging technologies will get better, faster, and more detailed. The dentist will never miss another spot of plaque or infection. Targeted antibiotics will gain in popularity. Instead of troubling the body with a broad-spectrum antibiotic that never quite gets the entire infection, dentists will inject antibiotic cultures directly into the problem area, and then observe how the infection reacts. Once they know what sort of antibiotic works best on that particular bacteria, they make will short work of it.
This is only the beginning. The art of dentistry has nearly been perfected, and in the next ten years we will all begin to see the benefits. Expect your trip to the dentist in 2022 to be not only painless, but enjoyable.
Author Bio
Andy is a dental marketing consultant, author and blogger. With a professional dental direct mail campaign from 123 Postcards, you get guaranteed ROI, a dedicated account manager, and new patients with every mailing. For the best in marketing for dentist, choose 123 Postcards.
