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Does cutting down on sugar help to treat yeast infections?

About 50 – 80% of all healthy persons have this yeast in their mouth and digestive system. If stool is found to contain large amount of this yeast, then you have a “candida infection”. This is believed to disturb normal intestinal processing of water, sugar and natrium and cause diarrhea.

Dental treatment under general anaesthesia

Some people are terrified of going to the dentist. Can they get help?
What used to be the exception years ago has now become a common procedure – dental treatment under general anaesthesia.
We’ve found out that one dental team in Austria goes even further and offers such patients not only treatment under anaesthesia, but also help [...]

Jaw pain – what now?

It has been found that the jaw is perfectly capable of adapting to a new set of teeth, this just takes some time. So nowadays doctors like to wait before starting any treatment. Only one device has been found to help in the acute phase of jaw pain – the Michigan rail.

Can teeth grow back?

Researchers speculate that if the trigger for tooth growth is found then one day teeth might be stimulated to grow back in adults. Although mammals only possess one set of teeth, some vertebrates have several sets of teeth that grow!

Dentists and hygiene

Have you ever found yourself sitting in the chair at the dentist and asking yourself who had those instruments in their mouth before you? Have they been properly disinfected and sterilized?

Dental nerve pain

Posted by Dental News Team am 29, Jan - 2010

endodontology

Extract the dental nerve and then perform root canal treatment or kill the nerve using a toxin?

Generally: the longer a dental nerve is exposed or undernourished, the less rosy the future of the tooth!

Toxins should not be used, as they damage not only the dental nerve, but also the surrounding bone. But the tooth should not simply be left open – saliva contains hundreds of different bacteria, which are liable to invade an open tooth and are hard to remove after that.
The problem faced by doctor’s offices is timing. Toothaches appear without due warning, so toothache patients cannot just „make appointments“. This is when dentists resort to toxins, treatment of the „open tooth“, this does not take very long and is easy to squeeze into the ordinary daily schedule of the office! A separate appointment is then made for the actual root treatment.
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However long treatment takes, it is important to use a magnifier (magnifying glass, microscope) and coffer dam. This vastly improves the chances of saving your tooth!