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In dental medicine, a cofferdam is a thin rubber membrane that is used in a number of dental procedures to keep the tooth dry during treatment and isolate it from the rest of the oral cavity. The cofferdam looks back on a long tradition of its use in dentistry. It was invented by a New York dentist who was looking for a solution to the problem of the steadily flowing saliva during a dental treatment.<\/p>\n

From 1864, the year of its introduction, till the early 20th century, the cofferdam was a standard tool of a dentist’s craft. But as soon as electrical suction pumps were invented, the somewhat cumbersome rubber membrane was readily abandoned. It was all but forgotten in general dental practice, when modern endodontics and the work with composite filling materials brought it back in the 1990s. Today, the cofferdam is again an indispensable part of good practice in dental procedures like root canals<\/a><\/span> and amalgam removal, and a necessary tool when working with adhesive bonding techniques. The somewhat strange sounding name is an engineering term: In the engineering context, a cofferdam is a form of temporary damming to drain certain areas, e.g. during construction of a bridge \u2013 and, obviously, something quite similar is accomplished by the cofferdam in dentistry, too.<\/p>\n

Advantages of the cofferdam:<\/h2>\n