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Bad Breath Problem
The death struggle against bad breath – halitosis – has given birth to chewing gum and mouthwash to fun tongue cleaners. The latest in this matter is TriOral, a substance that liberates us for twelve hours of the smelly bacteria.
There is no human (except infants) can maintain for several hours fresh breath without little help from a toothpaste, a mouth or a timely wipe gum. And the bad morning breath, no doubt, no one pound!.
Responsible for this whiff we sometimes betrays the worst are the millions of bacteria that swarm in our mouth, especially on the surface of the tongue that is where most of it. Not in vain in the range range of alternatives to improve the breath, the tongue cleaner holds a special place.
Vital differences
Significantly, one thing is bad breath naturally occurs in all after a few hours, and another thing is the bad breath that affects an ongoing basis. In the latter case the poor bearing the name of halitosis. In 90 percent of cases, halitosis comes from the mouth. However, it also can be caused by the respiratory, digestive or due to systemic disease. Other causes of halitosis may be the cigarette, alcohol and even our kind of food.
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Dental Caries
Dental caries is a disease much more expansive than it should, it affects children and adults and causes more embarrassing is the action of sugars. Good hygiene after each meal and food intake are low in sugars are the best allies to prevent this inconvenience, which may lead to the loss of a tooth.
Tooth decay causes the loss or disintegration of the flesh or bone of the teeth, as a result of the action of acid producing bacteria to break down sugars in the diet. We must also bear in mind that foods rich in starch, can cause tooth decay.
When sitting at the table we prefer calcium-rich foods (whole or skim milk), yogurt, cheese, fish with bones (sardines or salmon), watercress, broccoli, almonds, calcium-rich mineral waters and soybeans. We must also include foods rich in vitamin D, which enhance calcium absorption, among them we find the fish, like sardines, herring, tuna, salmon, mackerel and trout.
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Protect Teeth During Adolescence
Generally it is proven that periodontal disease, may occur in greater numbers during adolescence, lack of oral hygiene practice.
Therefore highlighted above it is important to teach children from small to maintain their oral hygiene, because if the habit is acquired before age 13, certainly at this stage have fewer disadvantages for the child to brush their teeth and keep clean avoiding diseases, unwanted.
Also hormonal changes typical of this period significantly increased the number of teens who have periodontal disease in this regard as progesterone and estrogen, cause increased blood circulation in the gums, making them become much more sensitive, and this may in turn produce some irritability, swelling, redness, and various diseases that cause unwanted discomfort in adolescents.
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Food Can Help Dental Hygiene
We know they need to brush and floss two to three times a day to protect our teeth, but scientists are beginning to understand how our diet can fight tooth decay and build strong teeth. Here I bring you a list of foods you should eat daily for a healthy smile.
Apples: This luscious fruit increases saliva flow, which leads to bacteria and keep our mouth moist, which prevents that will be forming plaque and cavities.
Soy and Eggs: Protein rich foods like eggs and soybeans, among many others, takes the cells, which helps maintain blood flow to the nerves that are within our teeth.
Carrots, celery and peppers or bell peppers, crunchy vegetables cleaned and stimulate gums. They also contain vitamin C, which regenerates collagen, which is the basic ingredient of the fabric we have in the gums.
Dark Chocolate: Recent studies show that the sweets contain chemicals that help fight plaque build. However, it is recommended to go for a chocolate that has an eighty percent cocoa, because milk and sugar added can counteract the effect.
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Tooth Fracture
With lesions in the mouth of your child, contact your dentist immediately. He will examine the affected area and determine appropriate treatment.
If your child or you. bumped (trauma) or broke, or chipped a tooth, visit the dentist immediately. If possible, keep any part of the tooth that is broken (in some cases can be re-adhere to the tooth) and bring it to the dentist. If the break (fracture) of the tooth is at the level of the dental pulp may be needed root canal treatment prior to the reconstruction of the tooth, it can be with: the piece of the tooth itself, with aesthetic material (composite resin or dental) or may need a total reconstruction with a pin and a crown.
If you lost a tooth by accident (it came out of the mouth), take it to the dentist as soon as possible.
Avoid touching the tooth at the root and not clean. Store in water or milk until you get to the office. It is possible that the tooth could again be placed in the mouth of the child through a procedure called reimplantation.
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Flexible Dentures
The so-called flexible denture is a removable prosthesis (it is not fixed in the mouth, is taken by the patient is cleaned every time) partial (replaces some teeth) or total (complete) (replaces all teeth.)
The material used to construct a different colored translucent nylon similar to the gum.
Removable partial prostheses in the oral cavity retenerce should use fasteners (hooks in popular parlance) on the teeth. These retainers in other types of removable dentures (acrylic and chrome cobalt) are metal, thus unsightly, they are.
The flexible denture retainers instead have the same material (nylon translucent gum color) that is built in its entirety, be more esthetic than metal retainer. The prosthesis is more flexible than the others aesthetically but functionally it is better to cobalt chromium removable prosthesis, because it has greater stability. The nylon that is manufactured has less durability, color changing and more porous tornandoce as time passes.
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Wisdom Teeth or Third Molars
It is known by that name because its eruption in the dental arches corresponds to the period during which our youth are the first signs of mental maturity or sensible behavior. Period is between 18 and 21 years of age. Due to the inconvenience and disruption that often accompanies the process of eruption of the tooth have been better known, discussed and “suffered by the adult population worldwide.”
Eruption disorders are commonly accompanied by inflammatory type, which have as their origin the masticatory trauma to the area. Often seen accompanied by an infectious process that make the most annoying and make treatment more complex.
Wrongly, is regarded as a tooth of defective constitution, following the belief that suffers frequent caries during the eruption, that while this is true, is not due to weakness of the tooth structure but with conditions of poor hygiene at which it is subject during that period and later on, due to its difficult location.
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Dental Crown
When a tooth is a root canal (endodontics) and this is very severe destruction of (if tooth decay is not too severe you can reconstruct the crown of the tooth with a traditional restoration (composite, amalgam, etc.) or through an embedding), the only treatment is to make a pin and a crown.
The crown is a restoration totally rigid, her name indicates that due to the high destruction of tooth anatomy is necessary to restore in full.
The crown can different materials:
* Metal (chromium nickel or precious metal alloys (these are the best)).
* Dental Veneers (are made of metal and is visible with porcelain or tooth-colored acrylic, aesthetically not good)
* Porcelain on metal (most used crowns).
* Pure Porcelain (highly aesthetic) alumina or zirconia. They are more esthetic crowns all.
The tooth to tooth structure have not sufficient to constitute a support and retention for the crown is needed on a pin-stump. The post-core is not nothing but an element to return part of the tooth lost anchored inside the ducts of the tooth so we can retain the dental crown on the tooth. Is an intermediary between the root and crown.
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Dental Health Tips
Prevention and regular visits to our dentist of trust are the key to having healthy teeth, but also to have proper oral health and maintain healthy teeth should take into account:
Learn how to detect dental plaque biofilm (microorganism accumulated deposit on the teeth), by revealing substances to remove when we brush our teeth.
Use fluoride toothpaste or mouthwash that should be indicated by the specialist, by age of patient.
Visit the dentist for topical fluoride every six months.
Reduce intake of sugars, sweets and candies, especially those that stick to soft teeth, and acting on the microorganisms associated with caries. In addition to easily adhere to the chewing surfaces, and contribute to bacterial growth.
Eat foods rich in fiber, apples, carrots, milk, vegetables in general and maintain a diet rich in minerals and proteins that help keep our teeth strong and healthy.
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Home Remedies for Toothache
Usually when a person is a painful tooth to remove or reduce this pain with some home remedy or treatment recommended “a neighbor”, “family” or “friend” before going to the dentist.
Remedies (I remember hearing place cloves in the tooth affected, an aspirin in the cavity or on the gums, swish with different herbs, etc.) That one could use locally have no effect on the disease and could also worsen box (eg placing an aspirin directly could result in an ulcer (sore) in the mucosa (gums or cheek).
Also to try to combat this condition and a waste time go to the dentist could worsen the picture, taking it out of emergency at any time of day at any point of care.
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