What Is Biomimetic Dentistry, and How Does It Benefit You?

While you’re probably familiar with the word “biomimetic,” you may still be wondering why we’re fervently utilizing the biomimetic dentistry approach for serving our patients better. You may also wonder how it’s relevant to dentistry in the first place. To answer your queries, we’ll discuss what Biomimetic dentistry is and how it may benefit you.

What Is Biomimetic Dentistry?

The word ‘biomimetic’ comes from the Greek words mimesis (imitate) and bios (life). In dentistry, it means providing dental care using minimally invasive methods. That is, we aim to preserve your natural teeth by using cutting-edge tools and techniques rather than the conventional way of repairing damaged parts. Given this, we utilize biomimetic dentistry to help our patients keep their teeth strong and healthy for a lifetime while ensuring they retain their natural beauty and functionality.

The difference between Biomimetic dentistry and conventional dentistry is in the way we approach restorative treatment planning. With traditional dentistry, the focus is more on repairing the damage but not giving enough thought or care to conserving the remaining healthy tooth structure. Root canal, posts, and crowns are often performed on teeth that are healthy enough to avoid them if Biomimetic practices were performed instead.

Biomimetic dentistry seeks to preserve your natural teeth by focusing its restorative efforts on just the damaged portions, instead of just replacing the whole area. By placing value on the remaining healthy teeth, Biomimetic dentistry proves to be a more optimistic, glass half full kind of approach, where we are thankful there is something to work with rather than aggressively restoring the tooth just because something is missing or damaged.

How Does Biomimetic Dentistry Benefit You?

One of Biomimetic dentistry’s greatest benefits is that it ensures your teeth look great and natural. Additionally, it gives you two things that you may not experience with traditional methods — comfort and predictability.

Given that Biomimetic dentistry involves very minimal preparations, it is often less painful when compared to traditional approaches and results in much less tooth sensitivity after the restoration has been completed. You can feel confident that with Biomimetic techniques, protocols and materials your teeth will remain well-protected in order to help you keep your natural teeth for the rest of your life.

Why Isn’t the Biomimetic Approach More Common?

With all these Biomimetic dentistry benefits, you can’t help but wonder why there seems to be limited disciplines that adopt the same principles. It all boils down to skills, training, experience, preparedness, and patience.

Unlike traditional dentistry, Biomimetic dentistry is not an easy process. Dentists and the rest of their staff have to undergo a paradigm shift in the way they practice and need to look at dentistry from a whole new perspective, which means unlearning years of training and bad habits in order to embrace and perfect new concepts.

Conclusion

We are optimistic that one day, Biomimetic dentistry will be the new norm in delivering dental care. While that’s a work in progress, it is crucial to find a practice that adopts the principles of biomimetic care in which they prioritize and preserve the health of your current teeth rather than just focusing on the damage. This, we find, is the key to enjoying healthy, strong, and natural teeth for your whole lifetime.To find out more about the whole Biomimetic approach and how it can help you achieve naturally healthy teeth for decades to come, find a biomimetic dentist near you on our website today.

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