EC Dental Science

Keywords: O₃; Ozone; Dentistry; Surgery; Anti-Microbial; Dental Caries; Dental Pain; Periodontal Diseases

Precis

Dentistry is ever-evolving. Our patients seek more choices and expect us to have the latest clinical advancements and technological innovations, in treatment. Increasingly, ozone, a super-charged or excited form of oxygen (inorganic oxygen with an extra atom; tri-oxygen where O + O₂ + energy = O₃), is showing its therapeutic potentiality in almost every sub-field of dentistry, including disinfection, tooth decay/dental caries, tooth sensitivity and dental pain, gingival and periodontal diseases as well as in dental implantology and oral surgery. E.A. Fisch, a German dentist in Switzerland used ozone in the 1930s, after its discovery and use in medicine in/since 1885. Whilst the first mention of ozone is often attributed to Dutch physicist Martin van Marun in 178, the German chemist Christian Friedrich Schönbein is widely regarded as the father of ozone therapy. Nikola Tesla patented an ozone-generating system, in 1896, followed by the more modern and innovative “Ozonosan” system patented by Joachim Hansler, in 1959.

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