Does scaling and polishing make teeth weak?
It is a wrong perception that scaling makes your teeth weak or it removes a layer of your teeth.Scaling is the treatment for periodontitis, it is a prophylactic treatment. It does not removes the tooth layer but the plaque and calculus from your tooth.During scaling, there may be mild bleeding, it is not due to any harm to your oral health but due to the infection in your gums and bones.You may have slight sensitivity after the scaling procedure, it is because earlier you were carrying chunks of calculus over your teeth and after it is removed your teeth is exposed to the oral fluids again. Like you feel sensitive to the area when a bandage has been removed after a long period.If you had grade 3 periodontitis, after scaling you may feel slight mobility in your tooth. It is because, earlier the calculus was eating your bone and instead of the eaten bone, calculus(dirt) was holding your tooth. Now once that calculus is removed, you may feel mobility of tooth, but it will heal now. If you do not remove that calculus, it may eat the complete layer holding the tooth and the tooth will shed off automatically. Apart from that, calculus will also spread to the other teeth.All these symptoms will gradually go off within 7-15 days of the treatment.Be patient and relaxed if you are in the hands of a doctor.
On a scale of 1-10 how bad does a filling hurt?
If a 10 is getting your leg blown off in a roadside bomb, then I would say a 0.5.
Does the dental scaling hurts?
Hi - If you're talking about a regular teeth cleaning, no, it really doesn't hurt if your teeth and gums are relatively normal. Scalers and curettes and sometimes ultrasonic scalers are used, but since the pockets are not deep (< 3mm), the process is not generally painful. If you mean a deep scaling/root planing, such as what is needed when periodontal disease is present, then that can be a bit painful. This when there are deep pockets in the gums (> 3mm), with the loss of attachment of the gums to the teeth roots. Then the roots have to be scraped clean, all the infected material and calculus removed from them, in hopes of getting a new attachment. The dental instruments will need to be placed down at the bottom of the gum pockets, and this will feel sensitive. When this is done, it's usually easier on the patient to get a local anesthetic, so that the dentist or hygienist can do a thorough job without worrying about hurting the patient.
How long can you have a cavity before it gets really bad?
your mouth heals very fast, one of the fastest places of healing on your body, so the entire parts around the mouth are pretty resilient to infection/germs/whatever. if there isn't a strong, localized pain, more than likely there is no infection, that is SERIOUS infection. The thing with the mouth is, because it is so strong, immune system wise, when something goes wrong, it goes wrong BIGTIME... but, as far as your cavities, you should just start looking at crowns and partials...if you have had a tooth with a cavity for 2 years and no money to pay for them they may be gone already... I once had a cavity on a molar for a few years and didn't notice it until one day driving at work (I was a delivery driver) I had a strange "itching" sensation on/in my tooth. I started poking it with a paperclip and the next thing I know my tooth broke in half... I have a cavity now on my wisdom tooth (I kept all 4 of mine) and I'm probably going to let it rot away and fall out because I don't want to pay a small fortune to get a useless tooth fixed... how long can you have a cavity before it gets really bad? a lot of that is dependent...on how often you brush and floss and use mouthwash as well as how much and what you eat... but since you have 8 cavities, my guess is you don't take very good care of your teeth. You should really start... hope this helps good luck
Dental - What is fine scale and polish?
I had a full debribement done on my teeth (i though it was so painful, that I was tearing!). I unfortunatly didn't go to the dentist for 3 years while in college as I had no insurance and the part time job I had barley covered tuition and such, but now I am back on dental track. I have to go back in 2 weeks for a fine scale and polish and wanted to know what that entailed.