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DR. LAURA K. COYLE, DMD: The Wand is a little computer module that regulates the pressure
of the anesthetic as it goes into your mouth, so it really relieves a lot of the pain. A
lot of patients think that the pain from an injection comes from the piercing of the tissue,
but it actually is the anesthetic. As it goes in there, it tends to burn because if the
doctor puts it in there too fast or just manually as it goes in, it does tend to sting a little
bit as it goes in there. What The Wand does is it takes away the manual
capacity of it, so the computer controls how much flow goes in there, and the pressure
that the anesthetic goes in. So it takes away a lot of that sensitivity that patients encounter
when they have an anesthetic injection. We use it on every patient, it's the only anesthetic
that we have in the office; we have The Wand in every operatory, and it also allows us
to numb up only the tooth that we're working on in many cases, so that patients don’t
have to walk out with a fat lip and tongue, which a lot of patients don’t really like,
especially if they have to go to a business meeting or have a conference call or something
afterwards. Our patients love The Wand. It's a lot less
intimidating looking. You know, patients have these ideas of when they used to go to the
dentist years ago, and they had that huge harpoon coming at them with the really long
needle. Now The Wand looks more like a pen, and the dentist holds it like a pen, and it
definitely does not induce the anxiety because it doesn't look like an injection at all.
And most of our patients, after we anesthetize them, they say that was it, or what was that?
And we're like well that was the anesthetic. Oh okay. It makes them feel a lot better now
that that part is over. So patients have been very fond of The Wand.