A tooth's best friend? TIME was when the preferred material for filling superficial dental cavities was gold. Often, it still is, although cheaper materials are frequently used instead. But, for the deepest sort of filling, root-canal treatment, another substance familiar from the jeweller's shop is about to join the dentists' armamentarium--diamond. Root-canal fillings reach, as their name suggests, right to the bottom of a tooth. They are needed when bacterial infection has penetrated both a t...
A tooth's best friend? TIME was when the preferred material for filling superficial dental cavities was gold. Often, it still is, although cheaper materials are frequently used instead. But, for the deepest sort of filling, root-canal treatment, another substance familiar from the jeweller's shop is about to join the dentists' armamentarium--diamond. Root-canal fillings reach, as their name suggests, right to the bottom of a tooth. They are needed when bacterial infection has penetrated both a t...
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