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About Root Canal Treatment

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

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Root canal treatment is to save the teeth, preventing its removal. This way they can continue to fulfill its functions of mastication and aesthetics.

Currently, root canal treatments are performed in one appointment. Today we have the knowledge and equipment necessary to make this possible. Traditionally, these treatments have been made in several sessions (2-4), and if it is possible to achieve adequate results in different events, most cases are likely to culminate in a single session, except for some more complicated cases, where may be needed two or more sessions.

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Tooth Whitening and Pregnancy

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

tooth whitening and pregnancy

Is there any risk to whiten teeth during pregnancy?
Is no conclusive scientific studies to affirm or deny that the teeth whitening products are safe in pregnancy.
So the manufacturers of these products recmiendan not use in pregnant women.

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Endodontics, Salvation for Your Smile!

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

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If your dentist recommends treatment of ducts, is likely to shake you to the teeth. It need not be afraid because this treatment, also known as root canal not hurt as before and it may be the last hope to save a seriously infected tooth. Find out what it is and smile at endodontics to save your teeth.

When you neglect a cavity (bite) or you break a tooth, bacteria can enter the pulp (the soft center) and infect, excruciating pain and putting you in danger of losing your tooth. In such cases, it is more likely that your dentist (dentist) will ask you to give you a root canal or root canal treatment.

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Secondary Caries in a Tooth With Root Canal Treatment

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

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When doing a root canal or endodontic eliminate the vascular nervous bundle of the tooth (pulp) that lodges in the pulp chamber and canals tooth and fill it with a suitable material for this. By this we mean that we do not change the composition of the tissues of the teeth, therefore, the tooth has the same opportunity to develop a cavity on the surface like a perfectly healthy tooth.

The thing to remember is that when one moves on a tooth caries with root canal the patient tipop persive no sensitivity or discomfort since the encragada to perceive (pulp) has been eliminated.

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Halitosis Treatment

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

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The commonly called Halitosis or bad breath is a common problem in the population. There may be a mild or more severe.

In pharmacies, drugstores and hardware stores sold every day all kinds of products to prevent halitosis. Oral languages, mouthwashes, sprays cliques. The Halitosis is a problem that is concerned with the high demand for treatments for halitosis.

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Dental Abscess

Monday, June 28th, 2010

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It is a concentration of pus that results from a bacterial infection at the root of the tooth affected by it. Usually this infection is caused by an unattended caries.

The abscess formation process begins when tooth appears on the access that frees the way for the bacteria to the root of the tooth, either by decay, the most common, or tooth mobility due to periodontal disease.

The bacteria through this open road, to infect the tooth, the pulp, the root and even the adjacent bone. At this point, the infection produces pus that collects in the area causing inflammation of the same accompanied by intense pain.

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Children, Teeth, and Arkansas

Friday, June 25th, 2010

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The Arkansas Department of Health has the Oral Health Coalition. This nonprofit organization promotes oral health measures, increases awareness and promotes dental health initiatives to prevent and control oral diseases.

One of its programs is the Mission of Mercy. Last year volunteers attended dentists and about two thousand people in Springdale offering free dental services.

Dr. Dwight Duckworth, of the Dental Association of the State of Arkansas, was responsible for the mission.
“Statewide the biggest problem with children’s dental health is the lack of access to a dentist,” she said.
He says that this is not so much the case in Northwest Arkansas as there are a significant number of dentists.

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Cavities, an Enemy of Children

Monday, June 21st, 2010

cavities, enemy of children

Cavities affect children more than any other chronic infectious disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half of children between five and nine years have had at least one cavity or filling. Upon reaching age 17, 7% of children have lost one permanent tooth because of caries.

The dentist Patricia Morales explains that a child usually has 20 teeth that are the primary teeth or milk teeth.

“It’s important to bring the child regularly. I would say that after three years if the child can, at least a visual examination to detect if your child has cavities, “said Morales.

In addition to making visual examination, Morales said, if the child is left, you can make a clean to get used to going to the dentist routinely.

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Tooth Demineralization

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

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We now know that in a mouth there is an ongoing cycle of demineralization and remineralization in the tooth surface, for what we consider to caries as a dynamic process.

If the acidity on the surface of a tooth is below pH 5.5, there will be a release of calcium and phosphate ions, which are enshrined in the saliva.

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Teething Process

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

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Teething process is often accompanied by other symptoms, namely: decrease in appetite for solid foods, baby likes to bite and rub his gum, become more fussy baby, become more frequent thumb or finger sucking, awake at night.

If these symptoms appear every time a child will grow teeth, then the parents blame the child teething process as the cause.

But if these symptoms occur and do not come with teeth that grow, then there is the possibility of other conditions that occur in children such as ear infections.

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