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Jaw pain-jaw joint pain, what is to be done? It happens unexpectedly while talking, yawning, or chewing-suddenly you recognise a stitch and the mouth opening area starts hurting and is often restricted. What is to be done? First of all: Keep calm, cause like every other joint, the jaw joint can be strained. It often happens during mountain hikes with ankles. If it happens in the jaw joint, affected people are more worried about! Moreover it doesn´t have to be the jaw joint, since muscle pain imitates...

Gum as a mirror of our entire health? YES AND NO! Again and again you read scientific and non scientific articles about vitamin deficiency and it´s consequences. As a result some people take homeopathic medicine-a mistake most of the time! - 99% of gum diseases are attributed to plaque and not to a vitamin deficiency -in industrial countries! - Women can have problems with their hormone status, which can modulatory have effect on the gum health. Ignore this factor if your oral hygiene is good....

  - - - - - - - Most reasons of parodontitis The most reasons of parodontitis are: Plaque based on bad oral hygiene Plaque based on overlying crowns / bridge edges Plaque based on tooth displacement Plaque based on leak fillings Fortunately all these factors are treatable / modifable: optimise your tooth brushing by starting at the back on the difficult accessible teeth. use an oral rinse use plaque tablets correct tooth displacement by using braces seek a faithful dentist! VN:F [1.9.3_1094]please...

 Is an oral rinse useful for parodontitis? YES! An oral rinse is a useful purchase, unfortunately some doctors think it is not useful-with the argument that bacteria rinse into pockets. That´s nonsense, cause first of all bacteria only move due to extensions and second bacteria are harmless at their own. Bacteria only cause parodontitis and/or cavity in the mature plaque.  You only remove plaque with the tooth brush above the gum, with the oral rinse also in the sulcus. In the first few...

Parodontitis-saliva test? Yes and no! The last article was about lasers, now we are talking about the next nonsense: the saliva test. It happens again and again that patients who suffer from parodontitis undergo a saliva test at the begin of the therapy. Gratulations! Now you know that you have bacteria in your mouth! If you had no bacteria you´d have no parodontitis-you see the advantage of this expensive diagnostics. A saliva test is only useful after an unsuccessful, conseravtive periodontal...