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Okay, when you think of teeth, green is not a color that pops into mind! Nor does dentistry seem like an area that can be particularly environmentally conscious. But here at Powell and Tiller Dental Care, keeping up with the latest in technology is helping our planet as well as our patients.

Digital X-rays not only provide excellent diagnostic value, they are also quite environmentally friendly. Developing X-rays required the use of chemicals which we had to dump and change daily. The films themselves eventually end up in landfills as did all the bottles that all our chemicals came in, not to mention the fuels used to get all the films and chemicals to our office. Now, we just scan in films and create virtually no waste. Not only that, if you need your X-rays transferred to a specialist or due to a move, we just email them. No materials for duplication and no fuels for shipping.

Another great technological advancement that has allowed us to be more green is our digital impressions. Most offices use thousands of plastic trays and pounds of impression material per year which all end up in landfills. Our 3-D digital impressions eliminate that waste. Our patients love them because they don't have to gag on a mouthful of goop, but instead just have a few pictures taken with a special scanner. We love them because they exceed the accuracy we could ever achieve with traditional impressions. Our planet loves them because we don't add all that waste to landfills and once again, to send them, we just hit "send" and no carbon emissions in cyberspace to get them to the lab.

We are committed to keeping up with technology. It turns out it provides more than just optimal dentistry. It can be one more way that we can go green!