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Family dentists provide both routine and specialized dental health care for young children and adults.
They can treat the whole family from children to the elderly.
What can the family dentist do for young children?
The family dentist can evaluate the child's primary dentition and determine if abnormalities exist.
Early prevention of tooth decay along with regular tooth brushing habits can be taught, practiced and achieved at very early age.
Healthy teeth and gums are important to your child's overall health.
For more complicated treatment, your family dentist will advice you to take your child to a Pedodontists specialize( pediatric dentist ).
What can the family dentist do for adults?
The family dentist can treat all the cases that do not need a dental specialist.
Dental cleaning or a prophylaxis is a procedure whereby calculus, stain, and other accretions are removed from the crowns and roots of the teeth, and the enamel surfaces are polished. Cleanings are recommended every six months and can start for children as early as 3, with a “happy visit.”
When the decay has been taken out of the tooth, it is replaced with “filling” material. In the past, amalgam (silver) fillings were placed into the cleaned out portion of the tooth. Dental researchers are continuing their often decades-long work developing materials, such as ceramics and polymer compounds that look more like natural teeth. As a result, dentists and patients today have several choices when it comes to selecting materials to repair missing, worn, damaged or decayed teeth. These new materials have not eliminated the usefulness of more traditional dental materials, such as gold, base metal alloys and dental amalgam. That’s because the strength and durability of traditional dental materials continue to make them useful for situations, such as fillings in the back teeth where chewing forces are greatest.
It is just more than brushing your teeth, flossing and eating right. Booking an appointment with your dentist office for a regular cleaning is essential for your oral health and for your medical health as well! Did you know that untreated gum conditions can lead to a heart attack or a stroke?
Periodontal therapy removes plaque and calculus by controlling the growth of harmful bacteria and by treating conditions that encourage gum disease. This type of treatment may be all that's needed, especially when periodontal disease is caught early. You may also need to have certain procedures, such as replacing worn fillings or crowns with overhanging margins that can accumulate plaque, taken care of before periodontal therapy can begin.
Inside each tooth is the pulp which provides nutrients and nerves to the tooth; it runs like a thread down through the root. When the pulp is diseased or injured, the pulp tissue dies. If you don't remove it, your tooth gets infected and you could lose it. After the dentist removes the pulp, the root canal is cleaned and sealed off to protect it. Then your dentist places a crown over the tooth to help make it stronger. Most of the time, a root canal is a relatively simple procedure with little or no discomfort involving one to three visits.
A tooth-like crown made of porcelain is used to restore a tooth after the decay has been removed. Crowns are also used to restore chipped teeth, broken teeth, gaps in teeth, and other damage. Also called “caps,” porcelain crowns resemble natural looking teeth in shape and color. All metal crowns are also sometimes used and have the shape of real teeth, but are made of gold or silver.
A veneer is a thin layer of restorative material placed over a tooth surface, either to improve the aesthetics of a tooth, or to protect a damaged tooth surface. There are two main types of material used to fabricate a veneer, composite and dental porcelain. A composite veneer may be directly placed (built-up in the mouth), or indirectly fabricated by a dental technician in a dental laboratory, and later bonded to the tooth, typically using a resin cement. In contrast, a porcelain veneer may only be indirectly fabricated.
A bridge replaces missing teeth with artificial teeth, looks great, and literally bridges the gap where one or more teeth may have been. The restoration can be made from gold, alloys, porcelain or a combination of these materials and is bonded onto surrounding teeth for support.
A child's deciduous teeth are generally whiter than the adult teeth that follow. As a person ages the adult teeth often become darker due to changes in the mineral structure of the tooth, as the enamel becomes less porous. Teeth can also become stained by bacterial pigments, foods and tobacco. Certain antibiotic medications can also cause teeth stains or a reduction in the brilliance of the enamel. Family Dentistry of Texoma offers a variety of bleaching methods including take home trays, gel brushes, whiting pens and Zoom.
A dental extraction is the removal of a tooth from the mouth. Extractions are performed for a wide variety of reasons, including tooth decay that has destroyed enough tooth structure to render the tooth non-restorable.
Extractions of impacted or problematic wisdom teeth are routinely performed, as are extractions of some permanent teeth to make space for orthodontic treatment.
If you’ve lost all of your natural teeth, whether from periodontal disease, tooth decay or injury, dentures can replace your missing teeth and your smile. Replacing missing teeth will benefit your appearance and your health. Without support from the denture, facial muscles sag, making a person look older. You’ll be able to eat and speak—things that people often take for granted until their natural teeth are lost.
Pedodontists specialize for children and adolescents.
A child should be introduced to a dentist early on (12 months to 2 years of age). It's always convenient to do this when another member of the family is having a routine check up or tooth cleaning.
It's good practice to take your child to see a pediatric dentist twice a year for cleanings and a general mouth, gums and teeth checkup.
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Dentist Manal Raafat
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