Dental caries, one of the diseases that can damage the health and dental structure. This disease makes sufferers feel pain and if not handled, it can cause death. Now, the disease has spread throughout the world. For that, please know how to address them.
Cause
The presence of bacteria in the mouth is a normal thing. Bacteria can convert all foods, especially sugar into acid. Bacteria, acid, food scraps, and the saliva will form a sticky layer that is attached to the tooth surface. This sticky layer called plaque.
Plaque will form 20 minutes after eating. Acid in the plaque will cause hard tissue dental caries late and there. Bacteria that were most responsible for causing dental caries is Streptococcus mutans.
Symptoms
Caries characterized by a hole in hard tissue of teeth, can be brown or black.
Cavities usually do not feel pain until the hole is getting bigger and the nerve of the tooth. On caries enough in, usually a complaint that is often perceived sense of pain when patients are exposed to dental stimuli heat, cold, or sweet. If allowed, the caries will increase in size and can reach the pulp room, the cavity in the tooth that contains nerve tissue and blood vessels. When it reaches the pulp room, there will be an inflammatory process that causes the throbbing pain. Over time, bacterial infections can cause tissue death in the room pulp and infection can spread to the bone tissue supporting the teeth, so it can happen abscess.
Examination
Inspection will be done by a dentist is a clinical examination, accompanied by a radiographic examination if required, sensitivity tests on the teeth suffered necrosis was suspected, and percussion tests to see if the infection has reached the tooth supporting tissues.
Prevention
1. Brush teeth with fluoride toothpaste twice a day, on the morning after breakfast and at night before bed.
2. Make flossing once a day to remove plaque and food particles lodged in the crevice between teeth.
3. Avoid foods that are too sweet and sticky, and less drinking sweetened beverages like soda.
4. Make regular visits to the dentist every 6 months.
5. Note the diet in pregnant women and ensure completeness of intake of nutrients, because of tooth bud formation began in the early second trimester.
6. The use of fluoride either locally or systemically.
Management
Usually the treatment given was cleaning the affected tissue dental caries and fillings (restorations). Patchwork material used can vary, for example resin composite (rays and fillings with tooth colored material), glass ionomer cement, kompomer, or amalgams (already started seldom used).
In large cavities that needed restoration of a stronger, typically used inlay or onlay, perhaps even artificial crown. On caries on pulp tissue that has been, it is necessary nerve canal treatment. When the damage was too extensive and the tooth can not be repaired again, then it should be revocation.
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Agus Kurniawan - Friday, March 4, 2011