Dr. Goldenberg gave her a note to take home indicating that she needed to have a dentist fill the cavity.

It was like - y'know - when the dentist fills your jaw with novocaine.

The discovery, they report in the current issue of Nature, may allow dentists to fill some cavities without using a drill.

After this is done, the dentist fills each of the root canals and the chamber with an inert material and seals up the opening.

To be on the safe side, most dentists fill cavities right away.

When dentists fill cavities, they typically surround the tooth with a band of metal or mylar, which is removed after the procedure.

A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew.

Last year the tree surgeons filled two cavities pretty much the way a dentist fills a tooth.

A 9mm slug drilled through the laughing mouth of one would-be rapist, creating a cavity that no dentist could ever fill.

And dentists are filling cavities with new, more durable materials that are perfectly matched to a patient's own teeth color.