Posts Tagged ‘Teeth Care’

Extended Fangs Can Cause Serious Damage

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Health Insurance warn of damage to look like vampire fangs, a new fashion in Europe. German health insurance expressed concern over the new youth fashion fangs sharpened or lengthened to give the appearance of the incisors of a vampire and warned that they will not bear the costs of illness or injury resulting from such interventions.

A spokesman for the semi-public insurance KKH said that to get fangs style “Dracula” young people are left incisor file or place “prosthesis” to lengthen and give predatory aspect.

Such interventions seriously damage tooth enamel, making the teeth more susceptible to decay and even become so fragile they can break when you bite, the spokesman said.

He added that “artificial dental lengthening also lead to unnatural disturbances of mastication can cause maxillofacial injuries, damage to the jaw bone and even tooth loss.” He also stressed that such interventions are not performed by dental professionals, but have become a new supply of tattoo shops and piercing and the new trend of young people related to the call goth.

Teeth Care in Pregnancy

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Most women feel very committed when any indication that dentists will do to take care of your teeth and health of her unborn child. However, it is necessary to strengthen this idea and spend a longer time to learning the correct way of brushing teeth, carefully controlled oral hygiene to keep a better prognosis of the changes that occur at the level of the gums as a result of hormonal changes of pregnancy. Also consider that changes in diet and quality of it, can affect the developing tooth decay and gingivitis or periodontal disease.

Remember that diet is also linked to tooth formation in the fetus. It is recommended that during the entire period of pregnancy the woman has a plaque control, avoid any reason for general anesthesia, avoid drugs as much as possible, and frequently go to the dentist to prevent their pregnancy any condition.

And although one might think that the care end with the birth of the child are also important to control in a later stage. The ingestion of drugs or drugs taken by the mother during pregnancy or breastfeeding, can pass through the milk to the child through breastfeeding and that is one of the problems that exist at this stage, as they may harmfully affect the baby or interfere in the process of breastfeeding changing composition of milk or interrupting the discharge of it.

It is therefore important that all dental action that takes place as previously discussed with your treating doctor and dentist.