Tooth fairy

or drinks enters the mouth and the bacteria in the plaque begin turning food into acid which can slowly start to destroy the teeth. The acid plaque will slowly start to eat away all the healthy minerals like the phosphate mineral and calcium in the tooth enamel which will end up causing the enamel to wear out due to the acidic levels in foods and drinks. But however, according to the website Bfsweb.org again, “once the plaque acid has been neutralized, the minerals can return to the enamel…

acid attack your teeth for twenty minutes, starting over with each sip (“WDA”). Soft drinks have a very destructive effect on teeth. They have emerged as one of the most significant sources of tooth decay (“Colgate”). The sugar and acids soften the tooth enamel and, if not fixed, can eventually lead to tooth loss. An example of this would be a study done in Alaskan villages. In these villages, there is no running water and most families buy soda instead of water because it is cheaper. When…

This paper explores multiple published articles that have reported results from research conducted case studies displaying the relationship between fluoride and oral health when discussing the fluoride concentration within a public water system. These articles, however, are quite similar in their findings, yet differ in the location the study was conducted in and age groups that were focused on. This paper examines Banóczy (2013), Peterson (2015), as well as O’Sullivan & O’Connell’s (2015)…

is a chemical called fluoride added to most public water services. These water services would include school and city water. You are most likely drinking this water at some time. Many people believe that water fluoridation protects the teeth from tooth decay, however there is actually many risks with consuming the water. The risks include risks to the body. Supplementing fluoride to public water services is unethical and creates risk to a person’s dental and overall health. When fluoride is…

just like any other game comes with both excitements and disappointments. One of the disappointments is dental injury. This can greatly hamper the love of your good smile. To minimize this injury, you need a protective mouth guard. Why risk losing a tooth when you can protect it? Dental injury can cause gum bleeding and lacerations, fracture or dislodge your teeth which may require a lot of money to correct it. A protective mouth guard should be a regular companion of your basketball sport…

have included fluoride into their water supply because it is the easiest way to help people who may not visit the dentist regularly. Smaller communities with their own water supply take fluoride supplements because fluoride protects the teeth from tooth decay. The supplements are available as liquids for younger children, tablets for older children, and fluoride is in many foods. Adding proper levels of fluoride to water is the same as fortifying other foods and drinks, such as salt and iodine,…

The optimum dental treatment for any patient is to restore teeth function and esthetic while removing the least amount of tooth structure, and replacing it with a dental material that will be biocompatible with the tooth and resist the hostile oral environment. Dental materials are incorporated into the teeth structure by retention. This retention can accomplished through mechanical, chemical adhesion or bonding mechanisms between materials and the dental structure. Mechanical retention is…

Other techniques that will be discussed is the utilization of visual assessment of dental abnormalities in tooth formation and eruption that a person may present with such as, amelogenesis imperfecta, which is disorder in the enamel tooth development. Although there seems to be only some few limitations to the methods used for person identification, there are a couple of literatures that discuss the discrepancies that may…

Fluoride is a naturally occurring organic compound or mineral that is most widely known as an additive that is used to reduce tooth decay. About 100 years ago it was found that people who drank water that came from wells that were rich in fluoride had fewer cavities in their teeth, and over time it became accepted that fluoride treatments could help prevent tooth decay. The practice of adding it to water supplies began to be done all over the USA when it was authorized by President and former…

Dentistry Demonstration Program found that water fluoridation was the most effective way of preventing tooth decay in children, rather than using other preventative measures such as fluoride tablets which are more expensive and have shown to be less effective (“Fluoridation in New York State,” 2008, p.1). Also, families of lower income may not be able to afford products such as fluoride tablets or tooth paste, which is why if all communities fluoridate their water supply, it is the most…