Dentistry without drills

This is part of the Vodcast series produced by Prof. Susan Rodrigues (Liverpool Hope University). The Project is funded by the Primary Science Teaching Trust. Award winning clinical researchers, Dr. Dafydd Evans, (Senior Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Dentistry) and Dr. Nicola Innes, (Senior Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Dentistry) at Dundee’s School of Dentistry are promoting techniques to tackle a common childhood disease: tooth decay. In this short video they describe a “drill and fill” technique and an alternative strategy, the Hall Technique, where decay is sealed into the tooth using a preformed metal cap that is cemented onto the tooth to give a tight fit and a good seal.