Everything You Need to Know About Dental Treatments
Root Canal Treatment (RCT) is a dental procedure to remove infected or damaged pulp from a tooth, relieving pain and saving the tooth.
Benefits:
🦷Relieves pain: RCT eliminates pain and discomfort.
🦷Saves the tooth: RCT helps preserve the natural tooth.
🦷Prevents infection: RCT prevents the spread of infection.
Direct Pulp Capping is a dental procedure where a dentist directly applies a medicated dressing to an exposed pulp, usually due to a cavity or injury, to protect it and promote healing.
🦷 Protect the pulp: Prevent bacteria from entering the pulp chamber.
🦷 Promote healing: Encourage the pulp to repair itself.
🦷 Avoid root canal: Potentially prevent the need for a root canal treatment.
Scaling and Polishing is a dental procedure aimed at removing plaque, tartar, and stains from teeth to prevent gum disease and promote oral health.
🦷 Prevents gum disease: Regular scaling and polishing helps prevent gingivits and periodontitis.
🦷 Fresh breath: Removes bacteria and food particles causing bad breath.
🦷 Boosts confidence: Leaves teeth feeling smooth and clean.
Dental crowns are custom-made caps that cover the entire tooth, restoring its shape, size, and function.
🦷 Protect weak teeth: From further damage or decay.
🦷Restore broken teeth: Rebuilding teeth that are severely damaged.
🦷 Cover dental implants: Placed on top of implants to provide a natural-looking tooth..
Operculectomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing the operculum, a flap of gum issue that covers a partially erupted tooth, usually a wisdom tooth.
🦷 Pericoronitis: Inflammation of the gum issue around the operculum.
🦷 Tooth decay: Difficulty cleaning the tooth due to the operculum.
🦷 Gum disease: Prevention of gum disease by removing the operculum.
Fixed orthodontics refers to dental appliances that are attached to the teeth to correct misalignments, crowding, or other orthodontic issues.
🦷 Effective: Corrects complex orthodontic issues.
🦷 Customizable: Tailored to individual needs.
🦷 Long-term results: Can provide lasting results.
Smile designing is a cosmetic dental procedure that aims to improve the appearance of a person's smile by enhancing the shape, size, color, and alignment of their teeth
🦷 Improved aesthetics: Enhancing the appearance of the smile.
🦷 Boosted confidence: Improving self-esteem and confidence.
🦷 Better oral health: Addressing underlying oral health issues.
Apicoectomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing the tip of a tooth root to treat persistent infections or cysts that cannot be resolved with root canal treatment alone
🦷 Persistent infection: Infections that remain after root canal treatment.
🦷 Cysts or granulomas: Growths that form at the tip of the tooth root.
🦷 Root fracture: Fractures that extend to the tip of the tooth root.
Tooth jewellery, also known as dental jewellery or grillz, is a decorative accessory attached to a tooth or teeth for aesthetic purposes.
🦷 Twinkles or sparkles: Small decorative gems or studs attached to the tooth surface.
🦷 Grillz: Removable covers or caps for teeth, often made of metal or ceramic.