What is Preventive Dentistry?
Continuity of oral and dental health can be ensured through routine dentist checks and preventive dentistry practices. It is especially important for children, pregnant women, elderly people over the age of sixty and people with chronic diseases
PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY
Ensuring the continuity of oral and dental health
Continuity of oral and dental health can be ensured through routine dentist checks and preventive dentistry practices. It becomes especially important in children, pregnant women, elderly people over the age of sixty and people with chronic diseases.
Early Diagnosis
- Dentist check-up twice a year
- Radiological examination
Performing Appropriate Treatments
- Tooth fillings and treatments
- Tooth surface cleaning and root planing
- Night tray placement if there is teeth clenching
Improving Health
- Oral hygiene education and motivation
- Diet analysis and advice
- Oral and dental health education for parents and pregnant women (mass media, individual in clinic)
Taking Protective Precautions
- Brushing teeth with fluoride toothpaste
- Periodic by the physician. application of fluoride gel
- Application of fissure sealants by the physician
Ç.A.T. Caries Activity Tests
The child's susceptibility to caries is determined by examining the saliva sample taken in a laboratory environment. According to the results obtained, the appropriate ranger program is started. Assessment of the risk of dental caries is a guide in treatment planning, selection of filling material and determination of the time to call the patient back.
Fluor Applications
Fluoride is used to prevent tooth decay or to prevent newly formed dental caries. It is the most effective and simple method to stop tooth decay. For many years, fluoride has been applied systemically (fluoride tablets) in Western countries, thus strengthening the structure of the teeth with fluoride and making them more resistant to caries.
However, today it has been understood that applying fluoride directly to the teeth is more effective. Studies have proven that applying Fluoride directly to the teeth after the teeth have erupted in the mouth is the most effective method in protecting against caries. Fluor tablets should be given to children aged 3 and under in the high caries risk group under the supervision of a pedodontist. Fluoride applied by pedodontists in various forms (gel, solution, varnish) should be applied at certain intervals immediately after the teeth erupt and should be applied for at least four years.
Fissure sealants
Fissure sealants are the most commonly used method in preventive dentistry today. Our children's teeth, especially the permanent molars that erupt in early childhood, begin to decay from the chewing surfaces. The deep recesses and protrusions on the chewing surfaces of the molars are very suitable for food residues to get stuck and cause decay, and they are very difficult to clean. Thanks to their fluid consistency, fissure sealants fill these recesses and prevent food residues from getting stuck there.
The most appropriate application time for fissure sealants is the first months of tooth eruption. This application can be applied not only to permanent teeth but also to milk teeth that remain in the mouth for many years.
The application of fissure sealant is completely painless. It is applied to the teeth with special applicators. Studies have reported that fissure sealants protect teeth from caries at a rate of 85-90%.
Space Maintainers
Space maintainers; They are removable or fixed appliances made to preserve the places of milk teeth lost prematurely due to any reason. Milk teeth serve as natural placeholders until permanent teeth erupt.
If milk teeth are lost early for any reason; Within 6 weeks, other teeth will slide into this gap and cover the place of the extracted milk tooth. This will prevent the underlying permanent tooth from erupting from its ideal location. If the permanent tooth cannot erupt where it should, it may cause crooked teeth and this may cause orthodontic problems at an early age. Space maintainers are personalized appliances made of metal or plastic. TO It can be fixed or mobile, depending on the number or location of prematurely lost primary teeth.
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