| What is needed to be protected from feeder decay? |
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Food consumed with feeder needs to be sugar-free. Even lactose in milk consumed without putting sugar may create feeder decay. Child needs to consume water after being fed with feeder and mouth should be cleansed with special toothbrushes after 6 months until 0-6 months.
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| Can crooked teeth be corrected in every age? |
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Once crooking is seen in teeth, it should be corrected immediately.
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| What kinds of tooth-brush should be chosen for children? |
Many firms have tooth-brushes for children in specific age group. You can buy this tooth-brush by considering compatibility of tooth-brush with child’s age.
If child has a special case (for example, using of orthodontic apparatus), dentist may recommend more special tooth-brushes.
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| When do children begin brushing their teeth? |
Child may meet tooth-brush when his/her teeth begins erupting(without toothpaste). There are special toothbrushes for these periods in markets. These toothbrushes are relieving itching seen during tooth eruption.
However, child should be not left alone and toothbrush should not be given to them under adult supervision. The most efficient result can be obtained in a way that adults can make mechanical cleansing without putting toothpaste onto these toothbrushes.
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| How can I understand that my child needs braces in his/her teeth? |
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Child should attend Dentist checks regularly as of 2 years-old. This can be decided in Orthodontist checks.
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| What is needed to be done adapting children to Dentists? |
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First of all, that child’s seeing the dentist once in 6 months adapts him to Dentist. Since protective measures applied in this visits of child shall not hurt him, harmony between child and dentist shall be amicable. Adults should never reflects their fears to child.
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| How should be children fed for their teeth. |
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Food rich with mineral balance for strong tooth health should be used. Milk, yoghurt, cheese, egg and vegetables should be consumed regularly.
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| What is needed to be done if child’s teeth dislocate as a result of crashing-falling? |
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You should primarily see your dentist. If falling tooth is milk tooth, space maintainer can be applied. If it is permanent tooth and has been dislocated from its alveolar place without any damage, root canal therapy can be applied and implant can be tried. Various treatments from filling to root canal therapy may be required in fractures depending on tissues which fracture has affected.
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| How can jaws be corrected with orthodontic treatment? |
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Firstly teeth are corrected afterwards jaws can be corrected by making use of elasticity between jaws strengthening braces more or strength of facial muscles.
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| What is tooth whitening? How is it performed? |
Tooth whitening is one of the dental applications which we can recommend the persons who are not contented with their structure of teeth. This can be applied in dentist’s office or at home.
Procedure of tooth whitening applied in dentist’s office environment is completed within one hour. In procedure of tooth whitening applied at home, patient applies whitening gel into transparent vinyl case prepared specially for him and affixes with 4-8 hours period daily. Desired whitening is enabled within average 6-10 days.
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| Is Tooth Whitening Applied to Everyone? |
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Tooth whitening can be applied to everyone if developmental defects are not present in tooth minerals and discolorations cannot be removed superficially.
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| What should we pay attention after tooth extraction? |
a- hot good and drink should not be consumed
b-eating nothing within 2 hours
c-not smoking
d-pay attention to mouth hygiene
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| How should I brush my teeth? |
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There are various techniques and brushing made with vibrating movements and circular rubbing repeated 10 times in the area where brush hair contacts with gingival sections provides an efficient elimination of bacteria plaque.
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| Is implant painful procedure? |
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Feeling pain in the moment of operation is not probable. Swelling and pain may be seen after operation but this is not more painful than felt after normal tooth extraction. There is no condensed pain.
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| Why Does Tooth Decay? Is it avoidable? |
The most important factor is remaining of food wastes in mouth area. Acid emerging when bacteria consume food wastes causes decays in teeth.
Decaying of teeth can be avoided. Not consuming sugary food in meal intervals, chewing sugar-free or sweetened gums, not consuming acidic drinks, regular brushing, fissure shutters, fluorinations, if necessary fluorine tablets to be used for after 3 years age protect teeth from decays.
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| Are tooth treatments performed during pregnancy? |
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The most suitable period for dental interventions in pregnancy periods is second three months period, in other words 4th, 5th, 6th months. If tooth extraction causing pain entails urgent treatments such as root canal therapy, it should be performed; these treatments should not postponed to post partum period.
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| What are individual measures required to be taken for preventing decay formation? |
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If decay is not formed, fissure shutter to be applied chewing faces of back teeth prevents beginning of decay and causes decrease in decay frequency with fluorine gargles but cannot stop the decay which has started previously.
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| What sorts of filling are available? |
The widely used fillings are:
Amalgam, Composite, Porcelain filling, Glass Iyomer and Compomer
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| How should be cleaning of dentures? |
Fixed dentures are cleaned during tooth-brushing. Sometimes, it may be necessary to use special tooth-brushes, dental gloss and mouth washes for under-bridge areas.
It is necessary to remove and brush removable dentures. Besides, you should use dentures cleansing tablets for cleaning these items.
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| How often should dentures be renewed? |
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This case may differ in relation with mouth hygiene of a person. Patients paying attention to hygiene can use their dentures for a long time. This is a case changing as to patient and explained to patient by determined by dentist in periodical controls.
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| Do braces cause pain after their fixation? |
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It is normal if you feel pain within 48 hours after fixation of braces. Reason of pains stems from disturbance of braces and brackets to soft tissues. However, these pains are not in unbearable conditions.
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| What is sedation? |
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It is a state of making patient relived with drugs beyond tranquilising without any loss of patient consciousness.
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| What are the symptoms of gingiva disease? |
Symptoms of gingiva disease:
Gingiva bleeding
Bad breath
Colour change in gingiva
Expansion and contraction of gingiva
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| What are the reasons of gingiva bleeding? |
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Factors such as tartar, irregular brushing, epilectic drugs, badly-handled filling, interface decays, mouth respiration lead gingivitis. Bleeding occurs in inflamed gingiva.
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| Is tooth X-ray harmful? |
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It is not recommended during pregnancy. After taking necessary measures (lead apron, lead rooms, dosage etc.) it provides advantage rather than disadvantage because it is an vital auxiliary method for Dentists.
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| What is Crowning? |
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It is a denture type which we prefer in cases that we cannot repair devastations in the sections teeth in mouth with particular methods such as filling, lamination etc. It has variations such as porcelain, metal, acrylic etc.
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| What is Root Canal treatment? |
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It is performed due to inflammation of live section called dental pulp passing through tooth and it is cleansing canal by removing nerve bundle located in this pulp.
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| What is staining based on external factors? |
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External factors: cigarette, coke, tea and other colorant food and accumulation of discoloration in formed tartar.
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| What is bracket? |
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It is a small part used for delivering strength of braces in metal or aesthetic kinds pasted on teeth for correcting curved and crooked teeth. It is used over all teeth.
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| Is there any alternative of bridge denture for satisfying tooth shortage? |
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Yes. Bridges are dentures which we call as fixed. These can be applied over patient’s own teeth or implants if necessary. There are removable dentures as well. We prefer these dentures when teeth shortage is more, teeth remained in mouth cannot lift bridge and implants cannot be applied.
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| What is teeth implant? |
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It is titanium screw functioning as tooth root and placed on jaw bone instead of missing teeth.
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| Results of habits of teeth grinding |
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There may not be visible damages however long-term teeth grinding causes abrasion on teeth surface and damages in jaw joints.
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| What is treatment of Teeth Grinding? |
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First of all, its reason must be found out. It arises from stress and habit and these cannot be satisfied accordingly, an apparatus fixed at night and called biting plaque can prevent abrasion and corrosion of teeth and habit is tried to be eliminated.
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