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Get Rid of Your Bad Breath Faster

You are enjoying yourself at a party and when you notice a hottie. He is dark, tall and handsome …wow... This looks like he absolutely has it all and who knows if you will ever run into him again?? In fact you cannot pass up the opportunity to speak immediately. You finally gain some courage to approach him. Your Voice Trembles and the butterflies in your stomach don’t hold you back making you to say, “Hello” He returns to you and says, “Hi” The very moment you feel like you are about to faint. It is not because you are talking to the best looking guy at the bar, but it stinks (Horrible Smell due to bad breath) God!! His Breath could make you to collapse to the floor. For sure you would not kiss him if someone gave money to do so. You will try to hold your head high and quickly walk away. After this experience, you still want to be sure that your breath is always kissable? Do this.. Brush your teeth and tongue regularly twice a day. You can turn your tooth brush s...

Wisdom Teeth

Wisdom teeth, generally called as third molars that appears usually between ages of 16 and 24 .  They are extracted when they affect other teeth.  According to Dentist terms this impact is colloquially called as wisdom teeth “coming in sideways”

Dental Injury and Remedies

Dental Injuries Remedies Dental injuries remedies are of several types . Children often used to break their teeth when playing and chances like they can trip over a toy resulting in a accidental tooth loss . Entire teeth can be completely knocked out and this case is often with sports injuries or serious accidents. Tooth and tooth loss injury can be a point to number of physical conditions or can be the result of an accident. Dental Injuries Risk Factors Breaking or losing a tooth is more common than you might think. This case is common with people who practice contact sports are prone to experiencing tooth enamel loss or accidental tooth loss. Your Teeth can break when they receive a fast blow and can be loosened, broken or knocked out completely. Immediate treatment to this gives the best chance of saving your tooth, if not it can make you to replace your entire tooth unnecessarily. Things to do in the Event of Dental Injury You should check your mouth in fro...

Most Affordable Cosmetic Dentistry Treatment Options

Most affordable cosmetic dentistry treatment options This cosmetic dentistry is a kind of discipline within dentistry which focuses the modification of patient's oral cavity appearance and surrounding structures in conjunction with treatment and prevention of structural,organic or functional oral disease. With the help of this most affordable cosmetic dentistry treatment options and cosmetic dentistry prices,the mouth appearance can be highly altered to match the patient's concept of what is visually pleasing. Most affordable cosmetic dentistry treatment option includes such as: Tooth bleaching or Tooth whitening - the most prescribed common cosmetic dental preocedure Many tooth whitening options are available now but the most recomended one will always be your dentist supervised treatment procedure for lightening your disclosed teeth. Enamel Shaping - this removes the parts of the contouring enamel to highlight or to improve the appearance of the tooth....

Know About Your Tooth Enamel

Tooth enamel is the most highly mineralized and hardest substance of the body and with cementum, dental pulp and dentin is one of the four major tissues which make up the tooth. This tooth enamel is normally visible tissue and must be well supported by underlying dentin. Research says that around ninety six percent of tooth enamel consist of minerals with water and other organic material composing that completes the hundred percent. Normal color of enamel varies itself from grayish white to light yellow. If one sees the teeth edge where there is no dentin that underlying enamel, the color sometimes appears to be slightly blue tone. The dentin color and any restorative dental material below the tooth enamel strongly affects the tooth appearance since the enamel is semi translucent. Thickness of enamel also varies over the surface of the tooth and is often seems to be thickest at the cusp up to 2.4 to 2.5mm, and appears thinnest at its borders seen clinically as cementoenamel jun...

Find a Dentist in your Place

It is always good to be acquainted with your family dentist before any dental emergency arises. Finding best dental surgeon is not a difficult task at all and you can easily identify them by asking questions among your friends and the area health professionals. If you still want to find a good one you can get some recommendations from local dental committee or else from a dental school nearby. Consumer Research, that offers a set of various questions to judge a good dentist’s skill set after receiving dental treatment. • How you feel when you bite something? Is that irritating your gum or normal.. • Are you still feeling that irritation on your gum even after the dental work? • How does your treated tooth look like? Is that look like your normal tooth or not matching properly. • Even after treatment does floss catch on your tooth or tongue? • How much time the dentist is taking to polish your fillings? • When drinking hot or cold water do you feel any irritating pain on your gum? • An...

Dental Phobia

Dental phobia is a phobia or fear that is defined traditionally as an exaggerated and irrational fear of dental surgeon and even fear of their dental procedures. Even now some controversy still exists related to this fear to find out whether this fear is irrational since this kind of phobia is caused due to some bad dental experience felt by the patient. This dental phobia is of many sub types, which has not been described or explained to this date and still appears to be an reasoning one, example, “fear of certain dental” procedures verses “fear of dental surgeon” even phobia which is resulting from previous bad dental experiences. But not all these fears can be deemed as irrational. This phobia can be defined in a better way as persistant and extreme fear which finally results in individual, avoiding to attend dentist or to take up any dental procedures unless when his/her dental problem reaches chronic stage. Hearing or even thinking about going to a dentist will cause psychological...

Mouth Ulcer

This is the name given for the appearance of the open sore occurred inside the mouth that is mainly caused by a simple break in the epithelium on the lips or in the mucous membrane or due to the break surrounding the mouth. Mouth ulcers are of diverse types with number of associated causes that includes chemical trauma or physical trauma, medications or medical conditions, infection from disease causing viruses, non specific processes and sometimes cancerous. After the formation this mouth ulcer may be well maintained by secondary infection and/or inflammation. There are generally two types of mouth ulcers. They are as cold sores and canker sores. Canker sores are also called as aphthous ulcer and herpes simplex virus which causes the cold sores. Mouth Ulcer Symptoms Mouth ulcer symptoms may vary according to the ulcerative process causes. There are some mouth ulcers that will start with a burning sensation or tingling exactly at the site where the future mouth ...

Dental Flossing for Health Teeth

Flossing always helps your teeth in the surfaces that tooth brushing cannot reach under the gum line and between the teeth. Brushing and flossing helps to remove plaque, a substance that adds slowly and hardens along the teeth over a period of time. If this is left without treating, then slowly deposits of plaque leads to tooth decay and gum disease It is very important to learn how to floss your white teeth. Dental surgeons or hygienist will happily demonstrate the technique of proper flossing. Flossing techniques basics are explained clearly below. This dental floss is of different types, so only one type of this dental floss will not work all. People can select between unwaxed or waxed,unflavoured or flavoured, and tape types or regular types. Generally, it was foun that a waxed dental floss slides easily between your teeth than an unwaxed dental floss. Also flavoured dental floss always leaves a good fresh taste in your mouth and is good for those situations when rinsing or brushin...

Proper Brushing Tips

Dental surgeons say that the minimum brushing time you should spend is 3 minutes twice in a day. Here are some useful tips on how you can bush your teeth properly: Hold your tooth brush exactly at a close 45 degree angle against your tooth gum line. Now softly and gently start brushing from where the gum and tooth meet to the chewing area that is about half a tooth wide stokes. Hard tooth brushing can also cause gums to recede, tooth sensitivity, loose teeth and also in over time Make sue of the same method so that you brush all inside and outside areas of your teeth. Chewing areas of your teeth can be cleaned by short sweeping strokes, by tipping your brush bristles into the crevices and pits. For cleaning inside surfaces of your teeth and bottom front areas of your teeth and gums, just hold your tooth brush in vertical position. With front and back motions, try to bring your front part of your tooth br...

Dental Caries Information

Dental caries, also called as dental cavities or tooth decay, is a kind of disease which is resulting out of entire tooth structure damage. Occurrence of dental cavities is greatly spread worldwide, and this dental caries can even lead to infections, pains, tooth loss and in some cases if severe also caused death. But the number of dental caries cases has now decreased in some developed countries, happened because of good oral hygiene and better preventive steps taken such as exposure of fluoride. In developing countries around the world this tooth decay or the dental cavities still continues to be a problem. Causes This dental cavities is caused because of four major factors. They are as Surface of the tooth( dentine) Cariogenic bacteria( potentially carries-causing) Sucrose( fermentable carbohydrates) Time Dental Caries Types Dental caries can be broadly classified into different categories based on caries locatio...