Whitening toothpastes only remove existing stains on teeth, which makes the original color, white or yellow, highlight more. But it will make the color of your teeth look whiter and brighter.
Saliva shows if we have bad breath.
Place a bit of saliva from the back of the tongue on the inside of the wrist. Allow a minute and check the odor.
Periodontics: Gum Treatment
Periodontal disease or pyorrhea is caused, as we know, by the adherence of plaque and germs to the crown and root decay.
This accession is extremely powerful and will not peel or with a strong brush.
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Dental Emergencies – Tooth loss
If a permanent tooth fell out completely, call your dentist immediately and request an emergency appointment. It is very important to the injured person and the tooth, the dentist within 30 minutes after the accident and that, so it may be possible successfully reimplanted.
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Today generally gives more importance a bright smile, and not enough on oral care, as you may have to be a good and effective hygiene and cleaning of tartar, or just check caries.
The reality is that even if you have a good smile, you always need a constant visit to the dentist of trust to verify that everything in order.
Thus, the control of caries and other factors particular to be one of the more casual and common problems, because sometimes not all react different to a tooth carious, even some patients are likely to even know that have.
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The tooth decay produces the familiar, annoying and painful cavities. They attack most people sometime in their life, but especially to children. Tooth decay can be avoided with proper education on oral hygiene and nutrition early in life. So, would succeed completely eradicate them from our mouths.
As we said, better treatment for caries is prevention, and we apply it since the first months of life of children.
There are fundamental factors which cavities are formed:
- Bacteria found in the mouth
- Sugars and carbohydrates increase the risk of dental caries. Sticky foods are more harmful than sticky because they remain on the surface of the teeth.
- Susceptibility and bias: if the teeth are properly aligned or is not important as cleaning difficult areas will be more predisposed to decay and easy to clean areas.
As we talked on other occasions, cleaning should start from the gums, ie before the birth of the first tooth and go, varying the method that will appear as the first teeth.
Baby teeth are as important as the final. This is because if the baby teeth have caries, the bacteria that cause permanent tooth passed to affect it.
At first, to clean baby’s teeth once a day is enough, the ideal time is at night before bedtime and after the last bottle.
When your child already has two years and most of his teeth has left, we cleaned at least twice a day. At this age you can start to use a small amount of toothpaste. It should continue brushing always at night before bed and another bathroom can be done in the morning or after lunch.
In some cases the child may want to start brushing the teeth alone, in that case you can choose because you do during the day and parents at night, because this brush is more important. The best thing to teach is to try to guide the movements of the hand of the child so that you learn the correct technique.
Children’s teeth begin appearing around age 5 or 6 months, although in some cases this will be advanced or delayed, depend on the development of each child.
Many mothers believe that children’s teeth are unimportant, as are milk and then exchanged for the final. But nothing else wrong with this old belief, and that below d estosdientes milk are formed permanent teeth. Elche’s teeth are important because they are keeping the final location and teeth that will come later, besides providing the appropriate form to the structure of the face, also allow a correct development of muscles in that area and correct pronunciation speech.
Because of this lack of importance given to the first baby teeth, it is not uncommon for children to suffer from very small cavities, tooth decay that inevitably affect the permanent teeth. This is one of the key factors why we should give special care to teeth from an early age.
The following are some tips that will help us provide our children can wear their teeth throughout their childhood.
The task starts before they leave their first teeth, then you must clean the gums with a washcloth, gauze or soft, damp cloth once a day, we can also use a specific brush to clean the gums of babies (never do with normal brushes).
What are periodontal diseases?
Periodontitis is an infection of the gums and bone that holds the tooth in place. It is very common in people with diabetes. In cases that periodontitis progresses too, the gum separates from the tooth and it is longer.
Symptoms of periodontal diseases
These symptoms may occur together, each person only a few and you can express or feel differently.
If you experience even one of these symptoms, it is important to see a dentist. The more in its infancy is the disease, more rapid, simple and effective your treatment.
Symptoms of periodontitis are:
* Gums red, swollen and painful.
* Bleeding gums during brushing, flossing and even chew food.
* Gums that recede and separate from the teeth
* Loose teeth and very sensitive
* Bad breath continued.
* Loose Dentures
* Pus between teeth and gums
* Feeling discomfort when biting
Daily brushing twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste to remove plaque prevent wear of tooth enamel and decay.
Eliminate or reduce consumption of starches and sugars, on the contrary, eating more nutrients and minerals such as cheese, raw vegetables, yogurt or fruit losdientes need to stay strong and resist infections.
The greater the frequency with which foods you eat, the more chances you give the acids in plaque to attack and wear down the enamel of the teeth, thereby limiting the amount of times you eat per day.
If you can not avoid the consumption of sugars and sweetened beverages, at least it is important to reduce the frequency, but not the quantity, because every time you consume these products cooktop bacteria produce acids that attack teeth.
Finally prioritizes food consumption that contribute to cleaning, such as fruits and vegetables, thus helping to maintain whiter tusdientes given their high fiber content.
The hit in the mouth are very common, especially in children and if you practice any sport. Where to find us before the accident, there are some things we know to act with certainty and not cause further injury. This will also allow the teeth to keep out efforts to re-implant or restored.
The main thing is to act calmly.
If you’ve beaten the mouth, you may have bleeding.
So you have to locate the place from where the bleeding and we noticed that the tooth has fallen, closing the gap with gauze and bite it with the other teeth.
Do not perform or attempt to crops close the gap with a foreign object.
If you find the tooth, place it in saline or milk and do not wash or touch the root. Your replantation is usually performed successfully.
If you can not locate the tooth, do not worry too much. Currently, there are very advanced techniques which reproduce the missing tooth to perfection when it comes to size, shape, color and function.