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?

Using toxins – good or bad?

Posted by Dental News Team On February - 5 - 2010ADD COMMENTS
Using toxins is bad! But why is it done? The answer is simple: time! You walk into the dentist’s office with a toohache, but without an appointment, since you cannot plan for a toothache. But getting rid of the pain for good requires thorough root treatment, for which there is just not enough time right then and there. So the tooth is opened up and a toxin injected in the hope that the tooth, and you as a patient, will not cause any more trouble before your next appointment. This process is...

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Differences in dental implants

Posted by Dental News Team On February - 4 - 2010ADD COMMENTS
The good in your jaw, the bad in …? Is there just one good implant system, or are all equally good? Generally, it can be said that the systems currently on the market are by and large the same when it comes to effects on bone healing. Although implant manufacturers advertise exceptional surfaces which supposedly speed up the healing process for bone, in practice and as shown by studies there is hardly any noticeable or proven difference. Depending on the quality of bone, dental implants take 0-3...

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Inflammation of the dental nerve

Posted by Dental News Team On February - 1 - 2010ADD COMMENTS
Dental nerve pain is usually a very bad sign, as it means the tooth requires root treatment! An initial sign of this kind of inflammation of the dental nerve (=pulpitis) is often a sensitivity towards cold and heat, eventually leading to a constant throbbing toothache. The tooth is sensitive to the slightest touch. After a few days, these problems usually go away, and you no longer feel any pain! But this is actually a sure sign that the dental nerve should be removed and proper root canal treatment...

endodontology

Dental nerve pain

Posted by Dental News Team On January - 29 - 2010ADD COMMENTS
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...

endodontology

Extracting milk teeth

Posted by Dental News Team On January - 28 - 2010ADD COMMENTS
Should milk teeth be pulled or shouldn’t they? Parents are not the only ones who ask themselves this questions, but quite a lot of dentists do as well! - - Milk teeth are not only needed to chew and talk, but they also stimulate the growth of the jaw. But if parents do not teach their children proper dental care, it is sometimes necessary to remove milk teeth ahead of time. - - - This is necessary when: the next tooth cannot come out (guided extraction) there is a chronic infection, e.g....

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