Throughout the course of dentistry there have been many developments that have changed the field in ways people never imagined. Numerous of these dental changes, especially the technological advancements, have mostly emerged only within the last twenty-five years. The dental profession has made groundbreaking improvements in the materials they use, approaches to problems, and how they execute certain procedures. Thus, making the experience, process, and patient care a lot faster, more efficient, and a lot less painful for dental patients. The world of dentistry is always rapidly growing, but looking towards the future, it seems like the science and technology behind this field are growing at an extremely rapid pace. A field that is growing equally fast is the world of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has been growing so much because it is a multidisciplinary field that involves every subject imaginable from chemistry, physics, biology, to electronics, mechanics, and even social sciences. These recent introductions of nanotechnology are making connections to dentistry and predicting that its use will have positive impacts in the dental field. These new applications and future ideas involving nanotechnology have brought about a new focus to the future of dentistry, now known as, nanodentistry.
Nanotechnology has been here since the beginning of time, however, the discovery of nanotechnology and its presentation to the world is attributed to scientist Dr. Richard Phillips Feynman for exhibiting an article on December 29, 1959, called, There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom. Since nanotechnology was introduced to the world, it has been a topic thoroughly researched and has scientists promising that it will change the world w...
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