What is a Filling?
Filling is the most effective protective method applied to restore normal function and aesthetics to a tooth damaged due to decay, fracture or crack. When your dentist gives you a filling, he first removes the decayed tooth tissue. It cleans and disinfects the affected area and fills the gap with filling material.
The materials used for the filling are gold, porcelain, composite resin (tooth-colored filling) and amalgam. (an alloy of mercury, silver, copper, tin and sometimes zinc).
What is tartar cleaning?
Dental tartar is petrified bacterial masses mixed with food residues that accumulate in the mouth when effective cleaning cannot be done. Dental tartar generally accumulates on the surface where the tooth and gum meet, and where it accumulates, it creates destructive bacterial and inflammatory effects. This destruction first starts from the gums, after the inflammation of the gums, the tartar continues to advance towards the jawbone under the gum. In the next stage, the inflammation spreads to the jawbone, contrary to popular belief. Dental tartar functions as a constant reserve of bacteria and caries in the mouth. Dental tartar must be cleaned when it is at a level that does not cause gum inflammation.
How is tartar cleaning done? Depending on the depth of the area, it is done in different equipment and sessions. It is done with the help of manually operated hand tools, ultrasonic cleaning tools or tools that spray cleaning powder. With the developing technology, scaling can be done much more painlessly today. After the scaling, the surface of the tooth is called polishing. Polishing and smoothing should be done.
What is porcelain laminate?
Porcelain laminates are used especially in the front teeth areas. It is an extremely protective treatment method preferred in aesthetic deficiencies. Porcelain laminates in the form of these leaf-like thin porcelain layers are applied to teeth that are damaged by reasons such as caries, fractures, cracks and abrasions, or in cases that concern aesthetics, in order to prevent further shrinkage of the tooth tissue. applied to each tooth separately It is a method in which aesthetics and hygiene can be achieved to the maximum extent due to their small size and mass.
How to replace missing teeth
Insufficient chewing function and aesthetic losses occur in the absence of extracted, decayed or broken teeth. In order to complete the missing teeth, prostheses are made with varying features depending on the number and position of the missing teeth. Fixed porcelain bridge prostheses are completed in a few sessions. arrangements are made.
In all jaw edentulous cases, large-surface acrylic prostheses that cover the entire toothless palate and receive support from the palate are made. These prostheses are called Total prosthesis.
While filling the toothless areas, support is made from the jawbone in order to strengthen aesthetics and function. Titanium implants are used. Implants placed in the jawbone act as tooth roots, allowing cases planned to be removable prosthesis to be re-planned as fixed prosthesis.
What is an implant?
Dental implants are used to replace missing teeth It is an ideal method used effectively today in the treatment of an implant. An implant can be compared to a hollow screw made of titanium metal in terms of its surface features and shape. Implants, which are surgically placed in the jaw bone where the tooth cavity is located, wait a certain period of time for it to fuse with the bone. At the end of the procedure, it becomes a support for the prosthesis that will be placed on it, as if it imitates the tooth root.
Root root canal treatment is the restoration of the vascular and nerve tissue that provides nutrition to the tooth and receives sensations such as temperature, pressure change, etc. It can be defined as the removal of (pulp tissue) from the tooth. damage g When a damaged, diseased, or dead nerve is removed, the remaining space is cleaned, shaped, and refilled. With this procedure, the root canal is closed. Years ago, diseased or damaged teeth were extracted. Today, teeth that are about to be lost can be saved during root canal treatment.
The most common causes of pulp damage are:
Cracked tooth
Deep caries
Damage to the tooth due to reasons such as a serious blow to the tooth in the past or recently.
When the pulp becomes infected or dies, if left untreated, inflammatory accumulation may occur at the root of the tooth and in the jawbone, forming an abscess. Abscess may cause pain by destroying the bone surrounding the tooth.
In such cases, it may be necessary to perform root canal treatment along with the use of antibiotic drugs, depending on the urgency of the abscess.
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