No more toothache; no more fillings and extractions. This is the hope of an increasingly vocal minority of radical dentists who claim that with the use of simple measures available to us now dental disease could be almost totally eradicated for the next generation.
To most people the thought of painlessly saving their children's teeth and even their own would be, to say the least, welcome and tonight's Horizon reports on the new techniques which would make this revolution possible.
It also shows that the main obstacles to progress are not technical but rooted firmly in the attitudes of both the public and the dental profession.