Tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease. One in three children suffer from tooth decay. It treated in time will not cause severe discomfort, but nevertheless, if not, can affect permanent teeth. Thus, It is essential to follow one of the greatest of modern medicine, prevent disease from adequate health education.
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What causes tooth decay?
Tooth decay is an infection of the tooth and is, Besides, the most common chronic disease in childhood. The average of caries in teeth is the 36%.
When we eat food scraps remaining teeth are metabolized by plaque, bacteria found on the surface of our teeth, especially when there is little hygiene. These bacteria produce a reducing acid pH of the mouth which causes enamel demineralization.
When can appear?
The "baby bottle tooth decay" as known to early childhood tooth decay can occur from the moment in which baby teeth appear in the mouth. So, from this moment it is best to start cleaning. The best way is to spend a wet gauze for them.
The longer we wait to start this process is greater risk that the child will develop tooth decay.
How to recognize it?
Ideally, take the kids to periodic visits each 6 months your dentist who will, in case of cavities, will diagnose the. This is important, because when the parents detected, usually the process is already fairly widespread.
In any case, the first signal is the appearance of a color change in the tooth becomes white and lusterless. As advances begins to observe a yellow border, brown or black in the area with cavities. As becomes more noticeable a sinkhole appears in the tooth, resulting breakage. This indicates that the decay takes several months in the tooth, because the process is slow.
The most common decay appear in places where the food is retained, therefore molars are most susceptible to this disease.
Do cavities hurt??
At the beginning when only affects the enamel. The outermost layer of the tooth is Painless, but if it spreads can reach dentin, layer where stimuli such as heat and cold cause pain or sweets. If finally extends to the nerve will occur as a result of infection and pus will result phlegmon. The flemón is only the pus looking for an exit to the outside. When achieves a sort of granite is observed in the affected tooth gum.
As it is?
When decay reaches the nerve of the tooth, The treatment is based on cleaning the part of the affected nerve or is already widespread infection all the same.
If it is permanent teeth will have to perform a root canal commonly known as "kill the nerve".
If decay does not affect the nerve treatment it will be based on clean tissue affected by caries and subsequent placement of a filling.
Sometimes decay is so large and has caused such an important injury that the best treatment is removal. In these cases, should be checked radiographically where the permanent tooth that is replaced. If there is still time for this to appear in the mouth so you have to do it is place a space maintainer. The maintainer is a small device that will keep the tooth space that we had to take and to be removed from the mouth when we observe that the new is appearing in mouth. That way we avoid future problems of space by improper movement of adjacent teeth.
It can affect the permanent tooth?
Any temporary tooth infection progresses from the root create a pocket of pus that affect the permanent tooth. Sometimes the latter out malformed, spots or lesions secondary to infection that had the tooth in his day and was not treated properly. It is therefore a great mistake to think that because someday will fall milk teeth, do not worry too much about their care.
As we have already mentioned must take children to periodic review every 6 months to prevent the occurrence of these problems.
Drag. Alejandra Sanchez
Sources: dental Gazette, dentaid, College of Dentistry, web dental, dental baby
