Braces Tips ( best tips get best answer )?
1. Make sure they cut the back wire as short as possible! 2. Don't eat ANYTHING the first day... it will hurt. Eat well before you go to have them put on and then brush your teeth really good. If you're hungry later that day, eat things that don't require you to chew. 3. Brush your teeth all the time! Otherwise when you get your braces off you will have little square stains on your teeth. 4. If they give you a retainer to wear after you get your braces off... wear it for as long as they tell you to! Otherwise, your teeth with shift and you will have gone through all of this crap for nothing! 5. If they don't offer you the special floss for braces, ask for it! It will be a lifesaver! It usually comes in baggies rather than a roll. 6. No no no no no regular gum ever! If you must chew gum... chew on some Dentine. It wont stick and it will help keep your teeth clean. 7. Advil is going to be your best friend. 8. Try not to drink coffee while you have your braces on. Those stains are harder to get off. 9. Don't eat any sticky foods. You will be sorry. 10. Tell yourself "This will all be over soon" and know that in the end you will have a beautiful smile to show for all of this pain in the .... umm... mouth =)
What happens if you have a loose tooth with braces?
Its not uncommon to find one or many of your teeth having braces move a bit (Grade 1 or in layman terms 1-1.5 mm). Orthodontic forces moves your teeth from point A to point B with the solid bone. Orthodontic forces make the teeth move and while moving, the bone at the front of the tooth resorbs ( dissolves/diminishes/relocate) and new bone is formed where the tooth was. This resorption and osteogenesis (new bone formation) that occur together makes the bone little soft around the root of the tooth and that is why you feel mobility in your teeth. Its a normal happening. Now another scene is where one finds his/her teeth extremely mobile (Grade 3 or say swinging like a pendulum) that points towards the scene where excessive force is being delivered (unintentionally) to the roots and that leads to osteoclastic activity (Bone dissolves and there is no new bone formation) and if this scene continues roots of the teeth starts resorption (roots start becoming shorter losing their structure) and if this continues unidentified, someone may eventually lose his/her tooth/teeth. Whenever you have any doubt regarding your treatment progress discuss it with your orthodontist. They would be happy to explain you the things.
What are the signs that a sprained ankle might require a surgery to properly heal?
A sprained ankle is one of those things that are often not managed adequately and the correct education not explained to improve mid-term and long-term outcomes. I suspect one of the reasons for this is that it's not a life threatening injury and is often glossed over during medical school training.In the emergency department where I see the majority of these injuries, patients get a X-Ray based on Ottawa Ankle Rules, someone looks at the X-Ray and rules out a fracture. Then patient gets sent home with minimal education for the often 3 months recovery. Sometimes they get a double layer elastic to provide some support.The majority of people presenting late is due to inadequate initial management and physical therapy rather than an absolute problem requiring surgical fixation, especially if they had an X-Ray on their initial presentation to rule out joint space widening of the ankle mortise.I often use the PRICES acronym in management.Protect - after an injury, the chances of reinjuring the ankle is vastly increased. Some advocate plastic splints to protect the region for up to 2-3 weeks.Rest - Relative rest is encouraged for the ankle as initial management as it is often too painful to do much and this promotes early healing.ICE for Ice, Compression & Elevation - for the first 24-48 hours help reduce the initial swelling and pain.Support - You need to be careful for at least 3 months. If you are going to jog, please wear a medium support ankle brace.After the initial stage, the most important thing is physical therapy. Due to prolonged protection of the joint and with splinting, one may suffer from reduced range of motion, stiffness and muscle wasting due to reduced use.Medscape has a good if not long and complicated article on this: Medscape: Ankle SprainLastly to answer your question, it largely depends on which stage of injury you are at and how far along you are in the recovery phase and whether all the optimal conservative therapies mentioned above has been trial or not. Recovery typically can take up to 3-6 months to get back to 90-95% function prior to the injury!There are absolute indications for surgery such as a total disturption of the distal syndesmosis and widening of the ankle mortise but these are diagnosis that needs to be made in conjunction with imaging and a specialist opinion. Thankfully these are not nearly as common in the entirety of ankle sprains.
Did you have calf pain when you sprained your ankle (did I strain a muscle on top of my sprain)?
I sprained my ankle a week and a half ago. Most of my swelling has gone down and I have barely any ankle pain. However, when I stand on my toes I feel a sharp pain on my mid-calf. Have any of you experienced this? I'm afraid that I may have strained a muscle. Thanks for your input.
Do I need Invisalign or is the dentist trying to make money by selling me something cosmetic and unnecessary?
I am 36. The dentist is pushing me to get Invisalign, which seems odd, because braces were never recommended to me when braces had to come from an orthodontist and were unattractive enough that patients only got them only if they were necessary. The recent push seems to be stronger because getting them for cosmetic reasons has become more common and because they can be provided by a dentist instead of an orthodontist. The reason that the dentist gave me for recommending them is that there is "crowding" in the front teeth and that this will make it harder to keep my teeth clean later in life (some of them are too close to get floss between them easily and some surfaces cannot be brushed very well, because other teeth are in the way; however, none of these teeth has ever shown any decay). However, they did not say that there was any immediate problem, or even really say that treatment was needed; they just that I would be a good candidate and that they recommend it. In fact, they initially tried to convince me to get them for cosmetic reasons, and only switched to promoting health benefits when I said that I did not want to spend over $4000 and go through the treatment protocol (wearing something uncomfortable, many trips to the dentist, possibly needing a retainer for life, which they did not tell me [I learned that online later]) if the benefit was only cosmetic. If I do not care enough about the cosmetic benefits to do it for that reason alone, is this sound something that I should do to prevent problems later, or is the dentist just trying to make money?
Is it possible that a tooth needing a canal treatment look normal on an X-ray?
Not only possible, but very, very common.Radiographs aren’t always a definitive diagnostic tool for abscess formation. In fact, it’s early acute phase (periapical periodontitis) a tooth can look perfectly fine on an X-ray, but tap on that tooth with a mirror handle and the patient may well want to throttle you.So the best way of diagnosing an issue that will require root canal treatment is by 3 methods combined:Patient symptoms (painful to put pressure on tooth, not sensitive to cold but may be sore to hot, throbbing pain that can travel, keeping awake at night, all signs of abscess or irreversible pulpitis)Clinical examination. (If abscess - Non-responsive to temperature or electrical stimulus, tender to percussion, tenderness on buccal/labial palpation, cracks, periodontal condition).Radiographic Examination. (An obvious cause such as deep caries, a deep restoration, previous complete or incomplete root canal treatment, loss of lamina dura, apical widening, periapical radiolucency, bone levels and so on).But be aware of red herrings such as serial extractions as a result of neuralgia, issues such as sinusitis and parafunction.If the tooth on the X-ray has no obvious cause for necrosis or irreversible pulpitis i.e it is unrestored with no caries, a careful examination with transillumination is a good idea, because if the issues are caused by a crack, root canal will most likely fail.There’s a quick outline to answer your question, however I’ve not even scratched the surface with this post.
#ExplainThis: How do vaccines work?
Vaccines are a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. As to why people don't get themselves vaccinated from several diseases that could kill them or their children is beyond me. Most of the kids that have gotten infected with measles is because their moronic parents didn't vacinate them when they were younger. Now their children are paying the price.
Will an xray always show if you need a root canal?
As Jon says it can help with the diagnosis, but when a tooth dies or has irreversible nerve damage it takes weeks or months for there to be any bone or tooth changes. And as x-rays can only see hard objects it may take a while for changes to be seen on the x-ray. Most root canals are diagnosed by the patients story and some other tests, such as tapping, hot and cold and a search for cracks, decay and stuff like that.The x-ray may or may not confirm that.Occasionally you will find an abscess on a tooth that was completely silent. This canbe seen on x-ray as a dark area at the root of the tooth.