I was at the dentistry a week ago and they stitched the top of my mouth after pulling two teeth and exposing the ones under (or I guess over) them. Two days ago they removed the stitches and put two little metal cubes in the injured area (I think it was to stop the bleeding), they called it a word that in English means “buttons” but maybe it’s called something else in English, and when the attached them they used a beeping flashy machine, while using it the covered my mouth with orange glass, maybe to remove blue light?
My question is what was that machine doing?
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It doesn’t sound like what you’re talking about, but they do use a flashing blue (ultra violet) light to cure composite fillings. If you have tooth coloured filings, it could be that.
Sounds like what they put on was a “crown”, an artificial cap put over a stump of a tooth.
That light is a UV light. The dentist is using a UV-curing glue to adhere the crown in place. The light makes the glue set basically
The big advantages to UV curing adhesives is that they cure very quickly when exposed to light, but not when they don’t. So the dentist has all the time in the world to position everything correctly, and then sets in place without having to wait forever for glue to dry.
The glues and such that they use for filings and braces reacts with uv light to dry. Your mouth being sensitive shouldn’t be exposed to it at that intensity, so thats where the orange guard comes in. It’s probably not a big deal, but especially people with braces that go in often for tuning and replacements, better safe than sorry.
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