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SOURCES: 2007 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Andrea Morgan, DDS, Clinical Professor, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD.

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Narrator:

Jacob Koch (COKE) is a second year dental student at the University of Maryland. Today he's preparing a tooth for a crown.

Jacob Koch, Dental Student:

Next semester we go into the clinic which is where we work with real patients, so we're pretty excited.

Narrator:

The school is a test site for new dental equipment so students are cutting their teeth on cutting-edge technology. Take this sleek-looking chair for example.

Andrea Morgan, DDS:

It's a very smart chair because it's a computer.

Narrator:

Among its many functions is to remember the special health needs of each patient.

Andrea Morgan, DDS:

So when Mrs. Jones is in the chair and we've logged her in as to being the patient in the chair, we would go to set her up and the chair would say, ok, but I would have to do it slower.

Narrator:

The chair also keeps patients from exposure to bacteria in the water lines.

Andrea:

The chair shuts itself down and it'll allow itself to be flushed with a little cleansing system that will allow the chair to clean itself.

Narrator:

Look Ma, no hands! Infection control is state-of-the-art.

Andrea Morgan, DDS:

You can actually wash your hands with a foot pedal; you don't have to touch anything.

Narrator:

Hands-free dryers - and cabinets with motion sensors - keep hands sanitary. Students use quieter, electric hand pieces and take digital x-rays that expose patients to less radiation.

Andrea Morgan, DDS:

If we can bring it up on the monitor and show Mrs. Jones what the tooth looks like now that it's broken and has a big cavity, and we go in to take out the cavity, she at least understands what the procedure involves.

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It's new technology that could make your next dentist visit more palatable. For WebMD, I'm Sandee LaMotte.

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