Title:
Nanorobots will prevent root canal treatment failures
Author:
Rajeev Chitguppi
Dental Tribune South Asia
Published:
Dental Tribune, 15 August 2021
From the article:
Many root canal treatment cases fail due to incomplete debridement of certain pathogenic bacteria - inaccessible to instrumentation due to their deep location inside the dentinal tubules. Researchers, including those from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have developed nanorobotic technology to solve this problem. The technology involves nanosized robots that will traverse the slender dentinal tubules and target the hard-to-reach bacteria.