Showing posts with label Caries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caries. Show all posts
Preventive oral health is a complex event, which includes daily cleaning and dental hygienist and a visit at least once a year. The fact is that for keeping your teeth and gums in a healthy state should be timely and proper removal of dental plaque, as well as a thick coating on the tongue. Food waste and soft plaque can be removed with a toothbrush and toothpaste. But the removal of tartar (mineralized dental plaque) is a dentist with special tools and instruments, such as, Air Flow. In this regard, a comprehensive oral care implies a individual and professional hygiene.
Dentistry, in general, as well as caries risk assessment, and any of its member, preventive dental care program includes a key point, which is to assess the risk of diseases of the teeth and mouth. In the case of dental caries, the risk is considered, depending on various factors influencing the caries process itself.
Individual caries risk assessment:
It is important to consider the individual and the factors that exist in each patient is:
- Systemic effects;
- Way of life;
- Dental disease caused in the past.
The stereotype is that the abundance of sweets causes tooth decay, it is not true. The main importance is the frequency of consumption of sweets and duration of placement in the mouth.
The essence of the caries detector is that when applied to the surface of the teeth were stained carious tooth tissue, leaving healthy tissue white.
Dental hygiene and oral health is one of the most important aspects of the physical and physiological health. Few people know that with proper oral hygiene, you can significantly increase your life expectancy. It is often associated with the elimination of diseases that begin in the teeth or in the mouth, and can interfere with the normal functioning of the immune system, which is already becoming less active, because with age, the body weakens. Here is a list of the major health problems of the mouth, you can eliminate.
Periodontal disease and root caries often meet seniors
Many people develop with age, degeneration of the gums and jaw bone or suffer from gum disease. Cause is often untreated periodontitis but also treated. The mostly non-inflammatory process in single or multiple teeth but sets free the root surfaces (root surfaces). They are more susceptible because of individual tooth structures to decay than others enamel surfaces. A change in the chemical composition of dentin and cementum due to mechanical irritation by:
- Incorrect or rigid brushing
- Too hard toothbrushes and toothpaste abrasion-promoting (eg, teeth whiteners)
- Gnashing of teeth
- Far outsiders teeth in the jaw bone with little or less jawbone support
contribute to an increased susceptibility to root caries.
Dental caries definition
Wherein the dental caries is a dental disease, which is characterized by a microbial degradation of the tooth structure by external influences. This is in the further course of the disease so damaged that it can lead to a loss of the affected teeth. Popularly known as "tooth decay".
Dental caries is one of the most common infectious diseases, interact in their formation several causes. The four most important factors for the development of caries bacteria, food, time and the tooth as a host. Cause of the formation of the dental caries are adhering whitish coating, referred to as "plaque." This plaque forms within the shortest possible time, even on a clean tooth and contains different types of bacteria, including the so-called Leitkeime of caries - streptococci (Streptococcus mutans) and Lactobacillus.
