Tooth abscess

Soft drinks are the most significant factor in severity of dental erosion, which is when the clear coating of the tooth is worn away. Dental erosion happens because of acids that are included in foods or drinks. The enamel gets softer and loses minerals that can be beneficial to protecting teeth when eating or drinking (consuming) acidic foods like oranges, strawberries, and soda. Food with a pH level that is lower than 5.5 is harmful to the teeth and can cause dental erosion. (On the pH scale,…

Blaylock highlights how independent study after study has shown that fluoride increases cancer rates, increases bone disorders, which as Blaylock points out is a good way of increasing mortality rates amongst the elderly, and also leads to profound neurological disorders. Blaylock highlights the research of Phyllis Mullenix, Ph.D, who during her tenure at Harvard University conducted one of the largest studies into fluoride’s effects on the brain in animals. Mullenix found that offspring of…

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…