MVDT, Inc's mission is to develop proprietary technology and related products that set a new, higher standard of diagnosis and treatment of dental diseases.

Currently, the engineers, physicists and clinicians at MVDT are nearing completion of a new sterilizable subgingival endoscope system that will allow clear, magnified vision of the structures and disease processes heretofore accessed via periodontal surgery, thus allowing for definitive diagnosis and treatment of the periodontal diseases in a minimally-invasive manner.

What Is Periodontal Endoscopy?

Periodontal disease vies for the dubious honor of being the most common chronic disease known to affect humanity. Periodontitis is an insidious, usually painless, bacterial infection, which not only causes tooth loss, but also correlates with heart attack, stroke and cancer.

Advanced periodontal disease is typically treated with periodontal surgery in which the gums are cut, and then peeled back to reveal the now exposed root surfaces and bone. This allows the dentist to remove, with visual assessment, the bacterial deposits on the tooth root surfaces. Often times the excess gum tissue is cut away to reduce the deep pockets around the teeth. The procedure is often painful, and not something most patients would want again, although it is not a cure.

Periodontal Endoscopy is our patented technology that utilizes microendoscopes to allow the clinician to visually access these bacterial deposits without the trauma of surgery, quite similar to arthroscopy or laparoscopy. Needless to say, the vast majority of patients find this method preferable to periodontal surgery.

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All rights reserved by MicroVision Dental Technologies, Inc. No warranties expressed or implied unless mandated by law. No claims regarding treatment outcomes or efficacy are expressed or implied other than those approved by the FDA. Perioscopy is the combination of the two words periodontal and endoscopy. Perioscopy is defined as visualization of the subgingival structures with a perioscope or periodontal endoscope. Treatment of gum disease with the endoscope is accomplished by removing calculus or tartar that causes periodontitis. Although there is no cure of periodontal disease, or periodontitis, perioscopy and periodontal endoscopy, promises to be minimally-invasive definitive treatment. Perioscopy is a non-surgical or minimally-invasive treatment that periodontists, hygienists and dentists use to remove the subgingival deposits, using the endoscope, that cause periodontal disease or periodontitis. A periodontist limits his or her practice to the treatment of the periodontal diseases while they hygienist assists the periodontist, and quite often the general dentist. Perioscopy and periodontal endoscopy using the perioscope is usually preferred by most patients as it is much less painful than periodontal surgery. The perioscope was invented by Dr. Bennett Jacoby and originally licensed to Dentalview, Inc. The perioscope, also known as the periodontal endoscope, is under new design phases by MicroVision Dental Technologies at this time although the first version will be a prototype. The periodontal endoscope is has been a favorite nonsurgical and minimally-invasive technique used by periodontists, hygienists and general dentists to treat gum disease. The technical term for “gum disease” is periodontitis which is the destruction of subgingival connective tissue and bone (osseous destruction), by bacteria resulting in tooth loss. Nonsurgical, minimally invasive treatment is always preferred as it reduces post-treatment complications and pain.