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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?

When is the right time to pull a tooth?

Posted by Dental News Team am 25, Jan - 2010

oral surgery

How long should you bother keeping a tooth?

Get a tooth removed, or wait, but for how long? As long as you still have good reason to!

We are talking about severely damaged teeth, teeth that have undergone root treatment but are still causing problems. The picture shows you a tooth that there is no more reason to keep.
The patient underwent root treatment 4 years previously and is still experiencing pain in this area. Root tip resection was performed, but to no avail. During the root tip resection, the tooth received neither an orthograde nor a retrograde filling – more on this topic here

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The patient opted for another resection, but in the course of the operation it became evident that the tooth needed extraction.

The mucous membrane has been flipped to the side, you can see a small window of bone (highlighted in white), and you can clearly see the tooth (highlighted in black) – the root tip has already been cut. The inside of the tooth is highlighted in blue, inside the pink dot you can see the filling compound. Around the compound, however, the tooth has started to rot – the black area. There is no more point in keeping this tooth, as faulty root treatment has caused the tooth to rot from the inside. Another root tip resection may help to put off the problem for a while, but not eliminate it completely!