Today’s Vision Tomorrow’s Reality: Nanorobotics in Dentistry

Abstract

Nanorobotics is the emergent technology arena crafting machines or robots whose components are at or close to the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters). A promising area of nanotechnological development is designing and building of nanorobots, with expedients ranging in size from 0.1–10 micrometers and created of nanoscale or molecular components. The concept of nanotechnology involves these robots that are too small, infact that they can construct things with particles and even change the molecular structure of prevailing substance. Nanorobotics is a multidisciplinary arena which involves collaborative efforts between computer scientists, engineers, biologists and other specialists to work towards a common insight. Possibilities for nanorobotics in medicine include early diagnosis and targeted drug-delivery for cancer, surgery, monitoring of diabetes, and other health issues. An increased interest of nanotechnology in dental applications has lead to the inception of a new field called Nanodentistry. Nanodentistry will make it conceivable to maintain an acceptable oral health through the custom of nano-materials, biotechnology and nanorobotics. It might revolutionize dentistry, healthcare and social life more intensely than many development of the past. Nanodentistry embraces desensitization of teeth, manipulation of the tissues in orthodontic treatment like straightening of irregular set of teeth, drug delivery, and many more. In this review it is explained that how nanorobots can be used to do preemptive, restorative, therapeutic dental procedures.