Tooth enamel

of gel, pens and wands – every single one of them promising a Hollywood smile. Should you buy one of these products? I can’t really blame you for being tempted to. Advertising gets the best of us all sometimes. You might be confused as to what tooth whitening product to buy because you’ve bought into the hype before and didn’t get the results you expected. Even worse, you bought it and it made your teeth and gums sensitive and painful. But today we’re going to explore a natural…

their wisdom teeth being previously taken out. However, I anticipated that if the percentage for the younger age group was high, the result would change in a few years for those students. The New York Times did a piece titled, Wisdom of Having That Tooth Removed, in which they interviewed dentists from the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. The Association stated, “80 percent of young adults who retained previously healthy wisdom teeth developed problems within seven years,…

severely under-weight while others may be obese. It is important to monitor someone showing symptoms of Bulimia in order to prevent the long-term effects of this disorder. Complications of Bulimia can lead to stomach rupture, heart failure, eroded tooth enamel, inflamed esophagus, and irregular menstrual periods (Curtis 1). The treatment options available for a person with this disorder include psychotherapy, established eating patterns, and resisting the urge to continue…

Bulimia Bulimia, also called bulimia nervosa is one of many eating disorders. Bulimia is characterized by episodes of binge-eating followed by methods of weight control (purging). Other methods include vomiting, fasting, enemas, excessive use of laxatives, compulsive exercising, and diuretics. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) states nearly twenty million women will suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their life. There are severe risks associated with bulimia,…

As human beings, we tend to not often take the best care of our teeth that we should. Many people, mostly children, tend to practice behaviors that lead to distortion of the detention. These behaviors include, but are not limited to, thumb sucking, premature removal of teeth and lip sucking. Sometime our detention is rearranged due to hereditary genes. Whatever the cause is no one enjoys having a smile that they or others find unattractive. Luckily, a special practice dentist called an…

choose between the livelihood of a human versus the care of an animal? In the book of The Last Meow, Levering and his wife Karen are willing to spend thousands of dollars on a cat named Lady who has many health issues, even being allergic to her own tooth enamel. The sensible reaction would be to take care of the human interests before the needs of the animal. Levering is recovering from, “a bout of Lyme disease and carpal tunnel syndrome,” (part 1, paragraph 7) and he is still willing to put…

medicines, like TUMS or Pepto-Bismol. These medicines maintains the stomach’s acidity. One of the many reasons that phosphoric acid is bad for your health is because it can deteriorate teeth. The high acidity levels will slowly eat away at the enamel and cause the teeth to gain cavities. If it’s not treated…

“Pat went to smoke the pipe” said grandpa. Smoking causes depression in ways that leads to people to commit suicide because their friends will not hang out with them while they smoke. Also, when a person smokes right by another person causes them to breath in the smoke, Which is also called secondhand smoking. People should not smoke because it causes diseases, makes people appearances changes, and it is expensive. The first reason that people should not smoke is that smoking causes diseases…

The risk of bacteremia is observed in many dental treatments such as extractions, periodontal procedures, endodontic operations, and tooth brushing [ortho2]. The prevalence of bacteremia occurrence has been reported to last about 10 to 30 minutes. For healthy patients, this is an unimportant factor, however bacteremia poses a risk in patients with prosthetic cardiac valves, previous bacterial…

Unfortunately, the Anorexic occupant will then develop osteoporosis and arthritis at an early age. Fortunately, that sodium deficiency can be replenished. Unlike the sodium deficiency, some effects are permanent. Permanent effects include: Erosion of tooth enamel, lowering the metabolism, organ failure, and death. This is a problem because, this is just an attitude that spiraled into a tornado of negative…