Treatment of caries using the Icon method allows you to do without the procedure of drilling a tooth and installing a filling. In 80% of cases, the Icon method helps to prevent fillings for several years ahead.
To better imagine the method of caries treatment using the Icon technology, consider its effect on an example:
Touch the tip of the felt-tip pen to the surface of a piece of white sugar, the surface of which will begin to color, being permeated with a colored liquid.
In the case of dentistry, sugar is an area of enamel affected by caries (or an area of damage within the enamel detected in time by an X-ray method), and instead of "marker liquid" felt-tip pen sticks out - colorless material – mono bond (infiltrate), which, absorbing into the enamel of the teeth, hardens inside and prevents the further development of caries. Before applying monobond (infiltrate), the affected area of enamel is etched and dried.
Carious spots on the front surface of the teeth, after the infiltration procedure, acquire a natural and aesthetic appearance or disappear completely, since the carious spot impregnated with Icon material acquires optical properties similar to the reflection of light inside healthy tooth enamel.
Advantages of caries treatment using the Icon method:
- The development of caries can be stopped in the early stages and for a long time, thereby increasing the lifespan of the tooth.
- No pain, does not require preparation (drilling) and the use of anesthesia.
- During this treatment, healthy tooth tissues are preserved, and the treated surface looks like healthy enamel.
- It is better to save teeth when there is a special tendency to the development of caries (childhood and adolescence, pregnancy, specific diseases, as well as superficial caries caused by poor hygiene, when treated with a brace system).
- Highly aesthetic treatment (front surfaces of frontal teeth).
- The full course of treatment is carried out in one visit within 15-20 minutes.