Reproduce Dental Care
Is the treatment of a tooth damaged by decay to restore its normal function and shape? When performing a filling, first remove the decayed tooth material, clean the affected area, then filled the cavity with a filling material.
By closing off spaces where bacteria can enter, a filling also helps prevent further decay. The materials used include gold, porcelain, resin composite (restoration of the tooth-colored) and amalgam (alloy of mercury, silver, copper, tin and sometimes zinc).
Mainly two types of materials used in the clinic:
Amalgam (silver) are resistant to wear and relatively inexpensive. Because of its dark color, are more noticeable than the restorations with composites and therefore not usually used in very exposed to the light, like anterior teeth. Currently its use is increasingly limited.
Composite resin (plastic) get the same color as your teeth and therefore used where it is important to maintain a natural look.
The composites may not be the ideal material for large fillings as they may reappear filter cavities more frequently than in amalgam restorations. It is the material of choice in both anterior and posterior restorations.
Depending on the size of the cavities and the number of walls classify affected tooth fillings or fillings in:
- Simple filling
- Filling complex
- Reconstruction
- Tartar removal (dental cleaning)
Can be defined as the process by which remove the dental calculus (tartar), soft deposits (plaque) and stains from teeth. This process is usually done supragingivally (not introduced into the gum)
Is a procedure that usually do dental hygienist, always supervised by a dentist, and in the case where q anesthetize the patient has a very pronounced sensitivity will be the dentist performing the treatment.
- Scaling and root planing (curettage)
It consists of subgingival calculus removal. It is performed in patients with periodontal disease (gingivitis, periodontitis). It is done with an instrument called a curette, which embrace the teeth by removing the subigingival calculation than a simple washing cannot eliminate, this way, achieved the reduction of periodontal pockets (separation pathological tooth gum due to the presence of subgingival calculus) and gingival bleeding phase and performs inflamación.Se mouth quadrants dividing by curettage per quadrant 1 This treatment is often accompanied by rinsing containing chlorhexidine appropriate.
- Endodontics (root canal)
Endodontics is root canal treatment; this corresponds to any therapy that is practiced in the dentin-pulp complex (the dental pulp and dentin) of a tooth. Endodontic therapy may be said to range from a direct or indirect pulp capping to complete removal of the dental pulp. It is applied in fractured teeth with deep caries or injured in the pulp tissue (connective tissue) in which there is a characteristic pathology.
This injury may be reversible (with protective maneuvers endodontic pulp can reverse the inflammatory process pulp) or irreversible, when the only treatment option is complete removal of the dental pulp and filling three-dimensional dental canal. Total biopulpectomÃas also performed on teeth with prosthetic purposes.
This treatment usually takes place in two sessions of one hour each aproxiamadamente case of a first or second molar and at a meeting when it comes to canines and incisors premolars. Can combined with antibiotics depending on the symptoms that accompany the patient.
Endodontically treated teeth are characterized because they are more susceptible to fracture, it is recommended to bolt restoration with crowns.