Back in the days before high-tech sensing and monitoring devices, miners used canaries as early warning systems to detect potentially deadly gas leaks in the mines. Now a Canadian company has ...

Lasers are traditionally used in dentistry as high-tech surgical tools that can precisely cut both hard and soft tissue and often neatly coagulate in the process. More recently, laser-based imaging ...

Until recently, the use of lasers in the dental office was marginalized because of the cost of the equipment and its limited use. Today, manufacturers and dentists believe "cutting with light" will ...

A lot of research in the field of dentistry has been devoted to early detection of cavities over the last 20 years. New technologies are promising to find cavities that were once tough to locate. This ...

Early childhood caries (ECC)—the world’s most prevalent chronic childhood disease—disproportionately targets specific teeth, a mystery that has remained unresolved until now. A collaborative research ...

Ortek Therapeutics Inc., of Roslyn Heights, N.Y., has officially launched its electronic early cavity detection system, the Ortek-ECD. The U.S. FDA-cleared device can detect dental lesions before they ...

Artificial intelligence has shown promise in many areas of healthcare, and dentistry is no exception. AI and machine learning are providing support for clinical decision-making and diagnosis—detecting ...