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Relieving the Toothache
We give you a natural technique to relieve toothache. You will need: water, salt, ice, tomato plant acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin)
• Boil a cup of water with two tablespoons of salt. Soak a cloth in the infusion and Clip it on your face at high temperature to resist.
• If the above does not work, alternating hot and cold packs.
• If you have at hand a tomato plant, boil some leaves and make the water rinses of the infusion as hot as tolerated.
• If a pharmacy close to open, buy a bottle of liquid analgesic and apply a small amount with a cotton until you get your dentist treats you.
• You can place a piece of aspirin on the tooth affected, cover with cotton, and get temporary relief.
Important
Do not self-medicate or take any kind of pain that has not been prescribed by a specialist.
Visit as soon as possible to your dentist, because pain is a warning about a possible infection or a major dental problem.
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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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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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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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Root Canal Treatment
Root canal (endodontic) treatment treats the inside of the tooth is removed the nerve or pulp. If decay infects the chamber where the nerve, the only way to save the tooth without removing it is doing a root canal.
Inside the tooth is a pulp consists of blood vessels, lymph vessels and nerves that nourish the tooth. The root canals containing pulp extend to the terminal from the root to the bone.
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Caries and Obesity, Poor Nutrition
Trips to the dentist are a routine part of many parents and their children. This problem so common in childhood appears to be related to obesity, as poor nutrition may be the cause of both health problems, according to a study at the University of Buffalo (USA).
The study authors say that poor food choices, like soda and other sugary drinks, are encouraging both the development of caries as obesity among children.
Cavities are one of the most common health problems in children, while childhood obesity has tripled in the last three decades.
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A New Vaccine Against Dental Caries
A recent report published by the journal Nature Medicine, a group of British scientists has developed a vaccine against dental caries from genetically modified plants snuff. The results obtained in a patient at four months were very encouraging and this has been assumed that the treatment could be available to the public within a few years.
Tooth decay is caused by the bacteria Streptococcus mutans, which produces an acid that coats the teeth and feeds on sugar and other carbohydrates. It affects half of children aged five years and three quarters of adolescents of 17 years. To eradicate this problem, simply cover the teeth with the liquid vaccine has been developed. A few applications provide protection against cavities for at least four months. The active components are antibodies that attach to tooth decay bacteria, preventing them from remaining on the teeth. While these harmful microbes are disappearing, others harmless teeth are installed in preventing the possible presence of other cells of S. mutans.
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