Dentist
A dentist is a doctor who diagnoses, treats and prevents diseases of the oral cavity and any damage to the teeth and gums.
Maintaining dental health for a modern person is a much simpler task than even a couple of decades ago. The quality of chewing food depends on the condition of the teeth, and their aesthetic qualities (color, shape, correct location, etc.) are one of the essential attributes of beauty necessary for successful communication with other people.
Thanks to the dentist, even the most unsightly and neglected teeth can be restored and put in order. The only problem (apart from, of course, the cost of dentist services) standing in the way of a radiant smile is the specific soreness of the teeth.
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Content:
- What does the dentist treat?
- Services you can get from a dentist
- Appointment to the dentist
What does the dentist treat?
The most common diseases of the teeth and periodontal tissues treated by the dentist:
- To some extent, caries is present in 95% of the population, its development is provoked by acid-forming streptococci. These bacteria feed on the remains of carbohydrate food, producing acid that destroys tooth enamel. When they get to the soft tissues of the tooth (pulp, dentin), inflammation (pulpitis) occurs, which irritates the dental nerve and causes pain, which can radiate to several teeth at once.
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Periodontitis is an inflammation of the connective tissue of the tooth socket, which, without proper treatment, ends in the loss of a tooth. (read also: causes and symptoms of acute and chronic periodontitis)
- Gingivitis is a disease that occurs due to inflammation of the gum mucosa. Bad breath is a common symptom. If untreated, gingivitis complicates the periodontitis, which provokes gingival abscess and tooth loss.
- Benign swelling in the gums - this category includes, for example, granulomas.
- Maxillofacial injuries that touch the teeth and gums.
- Stomatitis is an acute infection that causes inflammation of the oral mucosa. The disease can become chronic. Although stomatitis does not pose a particular health hazard, it brings significant inconvenience to the patient.
- Mumps in a non-epidemic form is an inflammation of the parotid salivary gland, which is provoked by dental diseases.
- Neglected forms and complications - abscess of the tongue, periostitis and other severe forms of damage to the maxillofacial apparatus.
Many people are afraid of dental diseases, which is why they become patients with aggravated forms of these diseases. In fact, with regular visits to the dentist, most oral problems are solved in the early stages without painful procedures, and modern methods of treatment necessarily include pain relief. Of course, if you start the same caries before pulpitis, you cannot do without cleaning the canals and treating (or removing) the nerve.
Services you can get from a dentist
Any visit to the dental office begins with a mandatory initial examination, which implies the following procedures:
- Taking an anamnesis, which consists of a short medical history, a statement of the patient's complaints and his own wishes, if they differ from medical prescriptions (this can happen, for example, when adjusting the shape of the teeth);
- Visual inspection using special tools such as a mirror and additional light sources.
- Palpation, tapping and pinpoint checking of pain syndrome in places of tooth damage.
Further, at the request of the patient, depending on the identified pathology, the following procedures can be performed:
- Additional diagnostics using a probe for examining periodontal pockets;
- Anthropometric research;
- Electrodontometry;
- Testing the sensitivity of teeth to temperature changes;
- Panoramic X-ray of the jaw and separate images for each of the teeth, which need to clarify the spatial structure of the lesion;
- Teeth whitening by methods of vital staining, removal of the upper layer of enamel and others;
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Treatment of dental diseases, a huge list of procedures which includes: anesthetizing the gums, cleaning out carious lesions with the removal of the inflamed root and then installing fillings, installing dentures in the form of implants or bridges, etc.
