EC Dental Science

Dentistry is frequently facing revolutions in order to provide a most reliable and comfortable therapeutic option for the patients. Nanotechnology has emerged as a new science exploiting specific phenomena and direct manipulation of materials on the nanoscale. A technology of creating machines or robots at or close to microscopic scale of nanometers is known as nanorobotics. According to nano robotic theory “nanorobots are microscopic in size, it would probably be necessary for very large number of them to work together to perform microscopic tasks”. Nanorobots may release inhibitors, antagonists or down regulators for the pyrogenic pathway in a targeted fashion to selectively absorb the endogenous pyrogens, chemically modify them and then release them back into the body in a harmless inactivated form. The present review highlights the use of nanorobotics in dentistry.

Keywords: Nanorobotics; Sci-Fi; Medicine; Dentistry

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