Shepperton dental practice offer advice about dentin

admin — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:47:47 +0000

Discuss your dentin problems at a Shepperton dental practice to get all the advice you need to help protect your teeth. Dentin is one of the four major parts of a whole tooth, along with pulp, enamel, and cementum. It is made from calcified tissue and is most usually covered in enamel on the top of the tooth and cementum at its roots, it is the most common tissue in teeth and is what determines a tooth`s size and shape. It also determines the tooth’s colour due to the transparency of enamel so in order to change a tooth’s colour the colour of the dentin has to be changed as well. Dentin is made up of many microscopic channels which are called dental tubules which cover most of the tooth, when exposed due to its permeability it often causes problems such as tooth ache and decaying of the tooth. There are a few different varieties of dentin identified by appearance and its stage in development; Primary dentin is what most of the tooth is made from, secondary dentin develops after root formation is complete and forms a great deal slower than primary dentin and tertiary dentin is formed as a result of stimulus to the dentin such as a toxin or bacteria.

Root Canal Treatment in Weybridge

admin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:38:05 +0000

Weybridge dentists will perform a root canal on your tooth, if it is decayed into your pulp or in very close proximity to your pulp and cannot be avoided; that is if you want to save the tooth. The tooth pulp contains the tooth’s nerves, blood supply, connective tissue, etc. When the tooth begins to die, there are several events that can lead to pain and other adverse consequences. Your Weybridge dentist or root canal specialist will use local anaesthesia and drill an access hole into the infected tooth. A rubber dam will then be placed, and then the pulp of the tooth will be removed using the appropriate drills and root canal files, along with chemical solutions to disinfect the inside of the tooth. The tooth will then be thoroughly dried using sterile paper points, and gutta percha (i.e., the root canal filling material) will then be placed into the sterile root canals, in order to prevent future infections in the tooth. This in turn, will also prevent bacterial spread to adjacent teeth. An antibiotic is usually prescribed to help kill all of the remaining bacteria, and then healing can begin. Pain medication may also be prescribed, and the tooth should settle down within 24-48 hours. A dry tooth is more brittle, so a cap may have to be placed to properly restore your tooth.

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Shepperton dental practice offer advice about dentin

Root Canal Treatment in Weybridge