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Dental Care For Children
As a parent, you play an important role in health and hygiene of your child’s teeth. You can help fight cavities. Prevention starts at home with good eating habits and daily cleaning of the teeth.
Proud of a vast and long experience in child care, our team of general dentists provide a full range of dental care for our young customers:
Prevention : a review, X-rays, cleaning
Application of Fluoride : Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral. It strengthens the surface of the tooth called the enamel. If the enamel is hard, the teeth are less likely to decay.
Sealants : A sealant is a kind of plastic applied to the chewing surface of teeth of adults. The plastic seals the tooth, preventing food and bacteria from them “stick”, thus preventing the formation of a cavity.
Restorations : why block a primary tooth destined to fall? Some primary teeth remain in the mouth until the age of 12. Broken teeth and infected can affect the health, development of the tooth below and to the confidence of your child.
Treatment under CONSCIOUS SEDATION WITH NITROUS OXIDE
Treatment under GENERAL ANESTHESIA
It is recommended that your child’s first visit to the dentist between the ages of two and three years, when all primary teeth are in the mouth. However, it should bring your child to the dentist without delay, regardless of age, if you suspect a problem. Soon will be the first visit, the better the chances of preventing dental problems and allow your child to be part of the cavity-free generation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Basic tips for taking care of your oral health
Many times we come home tired after a party or out trying to go straight to bed without even undressing. You may have resisted the temptation to make your bed before ritual beauty in case you are female and of course, brush your teeth. This simple gesture means a lot and allows us to take care of our dental health, which is crucial because, we do not teeth last a lifetime and the less care for them will fall faster. So, here are basic tips for taking care of the health of your teeth.
Brushing involves not only move the brush quickly on these and in less than 30 seconds and are clean. Brushing teeth should also be a ritual, one that we take seriously. To achieve perfectly clean teeth you should use a toothbrush head, short and soft bristles. This will facilitate cleaning and do not damage the gums.
Also, remember to change your toothbrush every 3 months and earlier if we see that it is not in good condition. To begin brushing place the brush along the gum line, so that the filaments penetrate between the teeth and gums. Start gently brushing all internal and external surfaces from the gum to the tooth, and then chewing the faces with small movements back and forth.
Finally, remember to brush your teeth at least 2 times a day (morning and before bed), although, of course, it is best done immediately after each meal.
These are the tips that we have to give to care for the health of your teeth, hope you are a great help!
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The Children’s Dental Health
February is National Children’s Dental Health and the American Association of Periodontology month begin educating children and parents about the number one concern of the Surgeon General: preventing dental diseases – including periodontal disease in children.
Many people think that periodontal disease is an adult problem. However, studies indicate that gingivitis (the first stage of periodontal disease) is nearly universal in children and adolescents. Advanced forms of periodontal disease are rarer in children than in adults, but can occur.
To ensure healthy teeth as an adult, you must establish good oral habits as a child. Parents can encourage good oral health habits at home. For example, parents may reward children with visits of the mouse or the tooth fairy not only when they drop a tooth, but when the child passes the dental examination.
Kinds of periodontal diseases in children
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Teeth Whitening is Effective Treatment for Oral Beauty
One of the aesthetic procedures also contributes to oral health patient’s most famous and tooth whitening is performed, a process that must be done under some important steps to success. Teeth are constantly subjected to a conscious and unconscious devastation caused by many of our daily activities, and often do not realize that these habits have a negative effect on them. As a result, the appearance of the teeth will subtract a fact which is reflected in the gradual loss of enamel which directly affects their brightness and hue.
Just to restore natural whiteness of teeth, which is not easy to keep it precisely because of the above factors and may include inadequate dental hygiene, soft drinks, caffeine, smoking, etc., Tooth whitening is the action appropriate with the freshness of some of our mouth will recover completely. Teeth whitening involve a period of about two hours where the patient and dentist will be available enough that, during the process, everything is properly set and this can be made without any problem. This is how it develops. Read the rest of this entry »
Teeth cleaning
The tooth cleaning is an important part of oral hygiene, which should be performed regularly. A particularly important part of dental cleaning is the regular cleaning of the teeth. Here begins in childhood education for tooth cleaning by the children’s teeth cleaned regularly is taught. This presupposes, of course, that the adults go here a good example.
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Dental Phobia in Children
Parents play an important role in preparing their child to make first visit to the dentist a pleasant experience. Any form of anxiety manifested by a parent will be perceived by the child.
Tips for a pleasant first visit.
Talk to the child’s visit to the dentist, limiting details. Answer any questions with simple answers. Allow the dentist or periodontist (especially for children) meet the more complex issues. These professionals are trained to describe the instruments to children in a less threatening and more understandable language. Never tell a child that something will cause pain or cause harm.
Never tell a child an unpleasant experience that the parent had at the dentist. Read the rest of this entry »
Dental care: the benefits of mint and eucalyptus
The fresh taste of our pleasant mint flavor toothpaste. Unfortunately, the aromas incorporated in toothpastes have nothing natural (except for some organic toothpaste).
This is unfortunate because, in addition to a refreshing taste, the essential oil of peppermint has a real antibacterial and anti-inflammatory that could be harnessed in the care of teeth and gums.
Dental care: the benefits of mint and eucalyptus validated Efficacy of essential oils for dental hygiene
Known long standing aromatologues and aroma therapists, these properties have now been confirmed by a study published in the International Journal of Dental Hygiene. Researchers have tested in vivo and in vitro efficacy of essential oils on oral bio films colonized by Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus mutant’s strains known for their role in the onset of oral problems, dental decay in particular. Read the rest of this entry »
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Well brushed teeth, heart healthy!
A good tooth brushing cans primarily good oral hygiene.
So the ideal is at least three times a day and 3 minutes each time. But he must know that to maintain its capital dental also prevents inflammation of the gum, which may promote heart disease (myocardial infarction and stroke).
It is the Congress of the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin in 2008 which puts us forward this information.
Professor Howard Jenkinson, University of Bristol, stressed at the meeting of the Society microbial generally that poor maintenance oral could lead to heart problems. The latter said: “bad teeth, bleeding gum and poor dental hygiene can cause heart disease. Poor people with poor dental hygiene and those who have not brushed both regularly, causing bleeding gum, will send in the circular system of blood up to 700 different bacteria that are in the mouth, greatly increasing the risk of having a heart attack.” Read the rest of this entry »
First Visit to the Dentist
The dentist is the professional responsible for maintaining health and healing that we can have alterations in the mouth and teeth. A positive attitude in parents and a tour before dental problems arising facilitate trust and rapprochement of the child to the dental office.
1. When should be the first dental visit
The first dental visit should be between 1 and 3 years old.
Parents should not expect to detect any alteration or that the child has pain because on this visit the dentist will not only seek any alteration so early but it can detect a looming problem that can be prevented.
Moreover, positive first visit where the child is not practicing any treatment, as this helps start a cordial and trusting relationship with the dental professional and general care of their teeth. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dental Hygiene Periodontal Disease
Hygiene in these cases has to be special and rigorous to stop this disease that can lead to loss of our teeth.
Improved hygiene.
Hygiene in these cases has to take care especially since its cause is infection caused by bacterial plaque.
There will be regular brushing, proper dental hygiene, proper, ie with a toothbrush and toothpaste and rub on all sides of the teeth.
In the case of periodontal disease there, the brush should be placed so that their filaments form an angle of about 45 degrees to the tooth surface supported between the gum and tooth, in which space (sulcus) be made lightly. Read the rest of this entry »
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