Monday, December 3, 2012

How to Have A Beautiful Smile With Teeth Whitening

We live in a busy fast world and have bad food habits leading to dental problems. The fast foods , canned foods and improper care of your teeth are the important factors towards these problems. Dental problems are more common among everyone especially among children due to the junk foods and candies.
Dental problems start affecting our mouth, teeth and gums. Following are the common dental problems :
Bad Breath
  • Tooth decay
  • Gum (Periodontal) disease
  • Oral cancer
  • Mouth sores
  • Tooth Erosion
  • Tooth sensitivity
  • Toothaches
  • Dental Emergencies
  • Unattractive smiles
There are various procedures followed by dentist to overcome these problems. Some procedures are done just to have a beautiful smile like teeth whitening.
Teeth Whitening
This is a procedure done on teeth to have a brilliant white teeth. Everyone wants to have a beautiful smile, due to the reasons such as food habits, smoking, drinking, antibiotics and tiny cracks there might be discoloration on the existing teeth. Some naturally may have some discoloration in their teeth similar to the hair and skin color. Teeth Whitening is one of the effective ways to lighter the teeth. Professional bleaching, the most common method of teeth whitening with the use of carbamide peroxide or hydrogen peroxide. In this procedure, a rubber shield or a gun is applied on the teeth to protect and then a whitening agent is applied using a specially designed tray which fits into our mouth as a gun shield. The agent applied on teeth breaks down releasing the oxygen into the enamel making the tooth color to a lighter without removing teeth surface.
Root Canal Procedure
Severe dental problems may lead to extraction of teeth. To prevent the extractions, Root Canal procedure is performed. Root Canal treatments also known as endodontic procedure is necessary when the soft tissue called pulp inside the root, becomes infected. The infection might be due to various reasons such as deep decay, crack in the tooth and repeated procedures on the tooth. Through this procedure the inflammation is removed carefully till the roots and filled with the fillers. A crown or a Restoration tooth is placed to protect and restore the function of the tooth. After this restoration, this tooth function as the other teeth.
If the tooth is severely damaged and cannot perform any procedure on the tooth, Dental extraction is done. Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon or dentist can remove the affected tooth. This procedure is done with the local or general anesthesia depending on the number of infected teeth. The denture or a bridge may be removable or permanent replaces the removed tooth.
Consult the dentists to help us overcome the various dental problems and have a beautiful smile.

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