Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts

7/02/2009

The best way to clean teeth

To learn how to remove plaque should first make it visible. This is accomplished using tablets or solutions that tiñan, for example, agents discovered that vegetable dyes that are harmless and disappear of the tongue and the mouth rinse.

Its usage is simple: dissolve one tablet or solution in the mouth and then spitting or swallowing removes pill. The color you see on the teeth shows the location of the plate, so you can remove it with your toothbrush and floss.

Which is the best toothpaste?
We recommend having a fluorine, so that it joins the tooth enamel, making them more resistant to decay. The fluoride toothpaste is a way to prevent cavities, as long as they use regularly.

How plaque is formed?

There is a bacterium called Streptococcus mutans, in a healthy mouth is found in small quantities, but when you eat more sugar than usual, increasing the number of bacteria and form an acid that attacks the outer layer of the tooth is enamel.

The sugar helps, too, that the layer becomes sticky, so the acid adheres to the teeth, extending the damage and making it possible to start the formation of cavities.

Why form cavities?

Basically, because the mouth of each person to be retained bacteria fed by sugar and other foods that are in the diet every day, grow and multiply on the teeth, forming a gelatinous and viscous film called plaque.

This film must be removed regularly by brushing and flossing before they harden or solidify, otherwise can lead to the two most common dental diseases: caries and periodontal disease (gum problems).

6/23/2009

Food good for oral health

There are a number of foods that can help fight dental plaque and strengthening gums. Pepper, for example, stimulates production of saliva, which neutralizes the acid mouth and facilitates cleaning of the teeth. The apple contains fibers that sweep the bacteria in dental plaque.

Moreover, as a means to eat fruit in the effort to chew, is working on the gums and stimulates blood circulation. The carrot, in turn, creates a protective effect against cancer of the mouth. That contains beta-carotene is converted into vitamin A in the body, producing a beneficial effect on mucous membranes.

It can also help maintain healthy teeth consumption of yogurt, which is rich in calcium.

6/16/2009

Cause of blood in the gums when brushing teeth

The bleeding of the gums is the most obvious sign of gingivitis (gum inflammation) is usually associated with the accumulation of plaque and tartar by brushing a poor or bad technique and not flossing. Faced with this situation should go to the dentist to determine the exact cause of the problem.

If an accumulation of plaque and tartar (tartar) dentists perform their disposal and treat inflammation, along with a patient education on brushing technique and proper use of dental floss.

6/02/2009

Teething and fever in babies

Almost all parents say that ios the appearance of a tooth occurs, among other disorders, increase in temperature. However, doctors argue exactly the opposite, that is fever which makes the tooth surface. The explanation is simple: the fever increases metabolism, and if there is any tooth pointing leaves completely.

Therefore it is advisable in these cases, as long as the thermometer rises, consult the pediatrician. To relieve the discomfort of the baby when a dientecillo, anti-inflammatory drugs are not indicated, which are ineffective. Much more useful is to give the subject a little clean, smooth, hard and unbreakable to relax bitten. In the market there are many teething rings for these special circumstances.

11/27/2008

Newborn ... with teeth!

Some babies are born with one or more "natal teeth" and erupted in others appear within thirty days of birth (neonatal teeth ").

In both cases, teeth are of little development in its wake up that can have mobility problems not usually present and are integrated with the other pieces temporary.

The greatest difficulty is for mom, but it seems that the baby should receive the pain it causes and learns to suckle without causing inconvenience.

10/02/2008

Care of teeth

In addition to his chewing function and its importance to have a proper diction and a good image, the primary teeth or milk reserve space for permanent teeth.

If a child has lost a tooth too early, for tooth decay, an accident or a coup, and there is enough room for a new tooth, it is advisable to use a space maintainer. This is a metal or plastic device that keeps the space open until the permanent tooth eruption may be in his position and place.

To prevent difficulties
If primary teeth are lost early triggered several problems:

• The teeth are located on each side of the tooth lost tend to run into an empty space. When the ongoing eruption should not find enough space and did it out of its own location. Generally, it is often the cause of a "malocclusion" or "crooked teeth".

• When the teeth are and they turn away, it is difficult to clean all surfaces (internal, external, chewing, interdentaria), which can cause tooth decay or periodontal disease.

• The tooth loss affects speech and the appearance of the child. The presence of the teeth are needed to adequately deliver many letters of the alphabet, as well as helping to shape the face.

• In the first six months following the loss of a tooth extraction or temporary, is the maximum movements of the surrounding teeth into the empty space.

With the placement of a maintainer, a simple and inexpensive, can be prevented the problems mentioned above.

10/01/2008

Oral hygiene - Brush your teeth after syrup

The bacteria that cause cavities feed on sugar, highly abundant in syrups. So, after the spoonful, you also have to wash your teeth.

Syrups containing, in addition to the active ingredient, refined sugars. These substances are conducive to the development of bacterial plaque, which is responsible for tooth decay. So when a child takes a drug like this, parents must tell you, after each shot, which was carefully brush their teeth.

If it is small for doing so, they who will be dealing. The teeth must be free of sugars, especially in making the night.

9/30/2008

The care of the mouth in pregnancy

The hormonal changes of pregnancy also affect the teeth and gums. Said that "each child is a tooth," which all women have ever heard, it reflects very well what it can be this critical period for oral health.

Problems in the gums.
Pregnancy gingivitis is one of the disorders suffered by almost all pregnant women. It manifests itself with redness and bleeding of the gums, fatness and separation of them, discomfort (including pain) and halitosis. As for the cause, it appears that increased levels of progesterone influences the microvascularización of the gums, and as a result, they become more susceptible to inflammation and the action of bacteria.

Although the problem disappears after the birth, it is necessary strives care: there are many women who are predisposed to periodontal disease (pyorrhea) and, if left untreated during pregnancy, the process will worsen.

Development of caries
Pregnancy does not cause tooth decay but favors the evolution of existing ones, due to the changes experienced by the oral microflora.

Before conception
The best thing is that women go to the dentist as soon planned to get pregnant. In this way, you can check cavities, remove tartar and combat inflammation of the gums in advance.

If you come to suffer from these disorders when it is waiting for the baby, you can pass it wrong. So too will avoid taking drugs for oral problems and undergo X-rays in this period.

IS MANDATORY!
• Visiting a dentist to control at the time that pregnancy is planned, during its course and then in the postpartum period.

• Make a clean mouth at the beginning of gestation.

• Brush your teeth thoroughly three times a day, although the gums bleed.

• Use toothpaste for sensitive gums. The brush must be soft.

• Follow a balanced diet and avoid over-sugary foods.

8/05/2008

The first tooth

The dental eruption in children, usually the concern of parents for their ignorance of chronology.

There are small in which the teeth, leaving before or after the usual. There are even babies, at birth who already have a milk tooth in his mouth, a fact that is becoming increasingly common in today.

The milk teeth starts to six months old, and to complete the two years or two and a half years, consists of 20 teeth. The incisors are the first to appear and make between six and twelve months.

Behind them, will the first molar, which emerges between 12 and 18 months, while the second leaves between 24 and 30.

In the period between the emergence of the first and second molar, that is between 12 months and 24, tipping the canines. A breakthrough or a delay of six months is generally irrelevant.

But any change in the timeline should be consulted with the dentist, in order to determine its cause, and if necessary, introduce a treatment in due course.

8/03/2008

Endodontics prehistoric

How to solve the dental problems in the Neolithic? According to Roberto Macchiarelli, French anthropologist at the University of Poitiers, with much greater accuracy of what one might think.
This is evidenced by the discovery in Pakistan of a series of human teeth from 7,500 to 9,000 years, with drilling in eleven molars.

Macchiarelli's team has found that such drills were fabricated with a tip of the flint quite hard as enamel to drill in less than a minute before it is not yet known if the purpose of drilling was therapeutic or otherwise, if the holes were filled with some filling, and if patients took something to endure the pain.

5/22/2008

The care of the teeth in the pregnancy

During the pregnancy, the future mom is exposed to important hormone changes because the placenta produces high quantities of estrogen and corpus luteum hormone that in turn, you affect to the oral tissues.

For example, one of the buccal consequences in this period is the gingivitis, as well as the famous tumor of the pregnancy that he/she appear in many women.

Not it is true the hypothesis that globally it was managed and you are still many they assure, that in this period the calcium of the denture is deleted, loosening the dental pieces. The calcium is present in the teeth in a crystalline stable form that don't allow that you incorporate to the systemic flow to cover a demand of calcium. Although you are not a loss of skeletal calcium in the pregnancy, the bony quality of those who are pregnant is not the same one that those that he are not, being much bigger that of last o'clock.

The dental cavity not necessarily increases during the pregnancy, although the increases of the intake dietaria of carbohydrates to cover the energy demands can generate a risk bigger than cavity in a pregnant woman or, in the period of nursing when having bigger quantity of appropriate substrate for the organisms cariogénicos.

The appropriate carefulness of the health and the mother's nutrition during the pregnancy, they can have significant effects on the oral health of herself, and of the boy to be born. In societies with economic severe difficulties, the maternal malnutrition has had consequences like the later malformation of enamel in the children, well-known as odontoclasia.

The mother's illness and the environmental exhibition can be in the boy's deformations congenital craneofaciales. The ullage of maternal appropriate pregnancy care predisposes the women a premature childbirth and to underweight babies when being born.

The pregnant ones with illness significant priodontal, they can have more susceptibility to give birth underweight babies when being born that the mothers with a healthy periodoncio. These babies, they can be susceptible to disturbances of the qualification and dental development; and ulterior late eruption.

The formation of the teeth in the fetus, it can be affected by different causes. When recommending preventative measures and to take a boarding proactivo in the initial stages of the pregnancy, the professional odontologists can guarantee a better result so much in health for the future mom like your son stops.