{"id":629,"date":"2019-04-04T09:56:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T08:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T08:56:55","slug":"the-wand-its-like-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/the-wand-its-like-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wand: it\u2019s like magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No one likes being made to feel pain, and\nmost of us will do our best to avoid it. We sneak carefully around stinging\nnettles. We do strange little jigs around bees and wasps. We avoid going for\ncheck-ups at the dentist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wait! Rewind! That last one is not such a\ngood idea. It\u2019s also based on a premise that is fast becoming obsolete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas in your parents\u2019 day, going to the\ndentist could entail pain from teeth being drilled, these days we have much\nmore access to local anaesthesia and it\u2019s a rare dentist who will insist on you\nhaving treatment without being numbed first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know what you are going to say next.\nYou\u2019re going to say that just having the local anaesthetic hurts. It hurts when\nthe needle goes in and then it hurts when the liquid anaesthetic is injected\ninto your gums and palette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that may be true at some dentists,\nbut not here at Smilecraft in Stevenage<\/strong>\nbecause we have The Wand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never heard of The Wand? Then let us tell\nyou all about it. By the time we\u2019ve finished, you may not be actually\nclamouring for an anaesthetic, but if we need to give you one, you aren\u2019t going\nto mind at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do stings hurt?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the question that dental\nresearchers asked themselves when they were trying to work out ways to deliver\ninjections without pain. Turns out, it\u2019s not actually the needle entering the skin\nthat causes pain, it\u2019s when too much liquid goes into the cells too fast and\nthey feel like they are going to burst. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is The Wand?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wand is a computer-controlled way of\ndelivering local anaesthetic. It looks more like a pen that a syringe. The\ncomputer injects small amounts of liquid at just the right pace so that the\ncells never feel like they are going to burst, and there is no pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You won\u2019t feel a thing. You may even find yourself asking us if we have started with the injections yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, don\u2019t be scared any more. If you\u2019d like to see The Wand, do ask next time you are in for a check-up. It\u2019s a great gadget. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No one likes being made to feel pain, and most of us will do our best to avoid it. We sneak carefully around stinging nettles. We do strange little jigs around bees and wasps. We avoid going for check-ups at the dentist. Wait! Rewind! That last one is not such a good idea. It\u2019s also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilecraft.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}