Open AccessNanodentistry: A realistic future!
Author(s) -
Sneha R Bhat,
Aravind R Kudva,
Harish Kumar Shetty,
Amarnath Shenoy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
archives of medicine and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2321-6085
pISSN - 2321-4848
DOI - 10.4103/2321-4848.123046
Subject(s) - medicine , scientific revolution , nanotechnology , engineering ethics , engineering , epistemology , philosophy , materials science
The strength of small is huge, that is what one ought to say about the revolution called nanotechnology. And why not! Nanotechnology, a science which deals with atoms a few nano meters large, has the potential to make scientific strides across industries. The speed at which advances are being made in science has catapulted nanotechnology from its theoretical foundations straight into the real world. Dentistry also is facing a major revolution in the wake of this technology having already been targeted with novels ′nano-materials.′ Molecular technology is destined to become the core technology underlying all 21 st century medicine and dentistry