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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?

Toothache after root treatment

Posted by Dental News Team am 04, Nov - 2009

endodontology

Toothache after root treatment – is this normal?

After root treatment it is normal for the tooth to continue hurting slightly for another 2-3 days. Slightly means that it can be treated using standard pain medication, that it does not increase intensity or start throbbing.

It is important to use a cofferdam during root treatment and an optical magnifier. A coffer dam protects teeth from saliva and the tongue, which is absolutely necessary for clean work.

The picture on the left shows a patient with a horizontal coffer dam, which isolates a tooth from the rest of the mouth and enables the dentist to concentrate on working.

Saliva contains many hundreds of bacteria, which are prevented from invading the inside of the tooth, which should be cleaned and sealed tightly.

If the channels on the inside of the tooth are not filled up to the root, then years later the bone can get infected, requiring root tip resection or extraction.

An x-ray can be used to check the results of a root-tip resection, the channels should be homogeneously filled to the root. The picture below shows a tooth which has received good root treatment. Find out more about this topic from the video lexicon www.checkdent.com!