Toothpaste Overdose Emergency Symptoms, Home care & Treatment (NY Times Health guide)

Toothpaste Overdose Emergency Symptoms, Home care & Treatment  (NY Times Health guide)

Toothpaste Overdose Symptoms Emergency What to Do

 

 

Source - Here

Dentist: Do you Know?? - Mountain dew Mouth

MOUNTAIN DEW MOUTH

 

                          The Severe form of tooth caries that found in a an individual who drinks sweetned Soft drink/ mountain dew like product is commonly known as mountain dew mouth.

                          20 ounce ( 0.59147 litres )  of Mountain dew contains- 19 teaspoons of sugar, 93

 

milligrams of caffeine and acid that causes enamel erosion & Thus helps in tooth decay. Mountain Dew soda, a product of the Pepsi Company, has been deemed the

 culprit in creating a high incidence of severe tooth decay in children.

                           This problem is not just concerning children's but the person who consume mountain dew. The severe form of tooth decay is observed in such cases. Not Just this mountain dew but Soft drinks which are sugar laden are also causes the same result in any individual.

     

 

Montain dew mouth

 

Source- here

 

Conscious sedation in dentistry (Dental Phobia/Fear/Anxiety-causes & management)

Conscious sedation In dentistry

Most of the modern dental offices focuses & encourages patients for regular dental care & routine oral Check-ups. Oral health is considered first when it comes to overall health. Dental practitioners are now giving importance to patient experience. To make patients experience better now lots of dentists are turning towards sedation dentistry.

    Previously we mentioned here About Dental Phobia & Anxiety.

 

Dental Phobia/fear/Anxiety - Causes & Management      Blogger   -link    Posterous -link    Tumblr    -link

 

This sedation dentistry is another way to deal with Anxiety or phobia of dental treatment. Sedation provides a way to overcome fear & achieve a positive result.

 

benefits of sedation dentistry-

1.  Helps anxious patients to maintain routine dental care

 

2.  Less post-operative soreness

 

3.  May require fewer visits for complex procedures

 

 

Sedation dentistry also known as – Sleep dentistry/Twilight Sedation/Conscious sedation.

In this procedure patients are given a combination of sedatives & pain relieving drug. Which creates a dream like state than general anesthesia. This procedure must be done under experts observation or by expert himself because if overdose is given then airway obstruction may occur which may cause some serious problem.

 

Deep relaxation in this procedure coined the term sleep dentistry but patient is alert in this state. So now you have another way to overcome your dental phobia.

 

 

Source-

Warning on sleep dentistry

Sedation Dentistry

Europe may ban or restrict use of Amalgam fillings (Silver Amalgam Another view)

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Dental Amalgam or Silver amalgam fillings are again in the news- This time due to mercury content in it. The restorative material is being used in dentistry for longest period & now there are some controversial findings about it – Which according to every Dental expert must be studied in depth but every study until now just shows the finding but non-conclusive. So in depth study is what we all needed to go for Mercury free practice.
            So with few studies that carried out with their help
 European commission may soon restrict or ban the Mercury containing restorative material.


According to this Article -Here (Guardian Weekly) 

Entire page is in downloadable & printable format at the end of this article

          

Some countries – Sweden last year, and Norway, Denmark and Germany, have banned or restricted the use of mercury fillings. But not France or the UK. The European commission is due to publish the findings of its review on dental amalgam fillings in March. In a preliminary report, published online in July, the company tasked with the study, Bio Intelligence Service, recommended phasing out mercury in dental care in Europe.        Doctors and patients are increasingly critical of what are technically known as dental amalgam fillings, allegedly responsible for certain neurological or auto-immune disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. - because of this Some Dentist prefer to say this-  “As a matter ofprecaution I would rather not use them for my patients,” A causal link between exposure to dental mercury and the onset of disease is difficult to establish, according to several organisations including WWF-France, RES and Générations Futures. However, for   those of you who have mercury fillings it is preferable not to rush to the   dentist's to have them out. "Careless removal can be more dangerous   due to the amount of mercury that may be released in a short time,"   Grosman warns.

"France's 40,000 dentists use it less and less for two reasons: the fuss about mercury has made them cautious, but also for reasons of appearance," says Michel Goldberg, the spokesman for the French Dental Association (ADF).     A report published by France's Healthcare Products Safety Agency (Afssaps)in 2005 concluded that mercury fillings were harmless. Three
	years later the health minister Roselyne Bachelot assured France's upper chamber that "the amount of mercury released into the organism by a dental amalgam is very small and well below the threshold at which toxic effects may be observed". She added: "We know of no proven cases of a patient having suffered mercury intoxication due to dental amalgams."     Nonetheless, Afssaps recommends that mothers expecting a baby or breast-feeding, and anyone with kidney problems should avoid mercury fillings. "There is no health risk," says Dr David Siarri, a Paris dentist, but at the same time he admits that he uses "very few dental amalgams and only in certain cases."

Below I am Submitting the Entire Source page as a PDF format which you can Download or print.

Web page of SAF ban in Europe

For Better Oral & Dental Health

For Better Oral & Dental Health

 This is the New Year’s dental & oral health resolution for better Oral & Dental Health.

Follow these tips for your best smile. 

 

Instruction for better Dental & Oral health

General Health relation to Oral health – Periodontal Health contributes to Healthy Respiratory system.

 

General Health relation to Oral health –series- Periodontal Health contributes to Healthy Respiratory system.

A new study states that the Periodontal Health directly affects the respiratory system. In simple language we can put it as – Maintaining Oral hygiene in proper condition can reduces the risk of respiratory system problems.

So previously we mentioned here how Oral Health & General Health are related – Here

Gum diseases & heart disease relation - Here

Now below is the PDF format view of the topic –Oral health affects the respiratory system.

 

 

Healthy Gums May Lead to Healthy Lungs

 

This article is just another proof of how the entire connection is there.

Source-Here

 

 

A gadget to cancel dental drill noise [A gadget to manage dental phobia/fear/anxiety caused by noise of dental drill]

A gadget to manage dental phobia/fear/anxiety caused by noise of dental drill

Few days back I wrote about - Dental Phobia/fear/Anxiety - Causes & Management - Here

(For tumblr  & Posterous  users)

& there I mentioned that fear of noise generated by dental drills is one cause for dental phobia/fear anxiety. But now it seems like researchers have created a device which help people overcome their fear of dentists- by canceling out the sound of the drill.  

Experts at Brunel University say the anxiety-inducing sound can be eliminated by using their gadget which plugs into an MP3 player. This then uses a microphone and adaptive filtering to cancel out the high-pitched drill noise, while allowing the patient to hear the music and what their dentist is saying.

 Source- here

This gadget is high pitched noise canceling device which filters drills noise & only allows person to hear dentist & music. So now people don’t need to fear that dental drill noise.

 

 

Home remedies to reduce toothache - clove oil preparation - (Short term) Tooth pain relief !

What to do when suddenly toothache starts? No medicine is there & you can’t reach your dentist. What you are going to do to reduce that pain? 

Some time it is not possible that you can make it within next few hrs to dentist & you also don’t have any analgesic prescribed by dentist then at that time the pain which is giving you so much trouble can be reduced by clove oil.

Remember that you don’t have to drink or inject any amount of clove oil in your body but you just have to apply it topically to the affected area.

From ancient times in Chinese medicines, In Indian medicines like Ayurveda the use of clove is very known for- Antimicrobial, Antiseptic, Analgesic properties.

Clove oil for tooth pain is very beneficial home remedy which will surely reduce the pain temporarily.

Here are some home remedies for toothache pain relief   

 source-here

preparing  Clove oil home remedy – 

 Source- here

You can directly chew clove & apply it to that area. The trick is you have to locally apply it.

It is a herbal medicine & is available easily

But when we take it orally in large doses shows some side effects-

Click below to see the drug interactions & Side effects

Source- Here & Here

 Tooth ache occurs due to – Infection, fractured tooth, Pulp exposure etc.  Antiseptic & Analgesic properties of clove can be used here to reduce pain for short term to save you from agony & buy you some time to reach your dentist.  

 

 

Article Source-

Wikipedia Clove oil Uses Clove oil for dry socket treatment Dry socket home remedies Toothache pain relief home remedies

 

This is not a permanent treatment for any kind of tooth pain. As A Dentist I recommend you to visit your nearest dentist As soon as possible. This article is just to reduce the pain when there is no other resource available. 

Dentist do you know? Some antioxidants prevent tooth decay.

Do you know?

  Anti-oxidants Such as-  proanthocyanidins from Cranberry extract & polyphenols from red   wine Affects Streptococcus mutans ability to produce acid & glucans. Thus preventing the organisms growth & ultimately this helps in prevention of tooth decay.

These anti-oxidants let other beneficial bacteria thrive in oral cavity so taking care of the balance of the oral microbial flora is not disturbed.

Microbiologist & dentist Hyun Koo at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York published this revelation earlier this year. Koo wants to save teeth by creating a medicinal extract from wine and cranberries.

 

Impact of this study is now we have Anti-Oxidants in our regiment against tooth decay.

 

Source-here

Fluoride in drinking water - a brief account. (links)

Today we are seeing something that is directly related to dentistry by every means. Fluoride incorporation in water 0.8 ppm (0.7 to 1.12 ppm) . I toothpastes its amount is about  1000 ppm  & there are some toothpaste coming that claimed to be anticariogenic toothpastes with 3000 ppm of fluorides.

 We always see the impact of fluoride- is it get “adsorbed” on the surface of enamel replaces calcium ion to form fluor appatite  instead of calcium appatite.  Thus strengthens the enamel.

So if fluoride 0.8 ppm (0.7 to 1.12 ppm) in water will not cause any problem but if it increased it may be harmful

But it is not just fluoride that can contaminate water but other substance also.

Carcinogens found in Tap water in 31cities of U.S.	- Here
For fluoridation of water	- here
Water fluoridation UNICEF’s Overview	- here
Scientific facts	- here
Fluoride health effect database	-Here
Water fluoridation controversy	- Here
Fluoride adverse health effect	- Here
Fluoride drinking water contaminants	- Here
Fluoride as toxic chemical in water	- Here
Biological effect of fluoride	- Here
Neurotoxicity of fluoride	- Here

 

 

 

So the main thing is- properly calculated amount of Dose that defines drug & if that amount is wrong the drug is poison.

If you still thinks that proper amount of fluoride is not necessary for you  or you find that fluride amount is more in your drinking water – then there are methods to remove fluoride from water - Here

I believe - Making water contamination is crime. Those who found culprit in it must be punished. Because proper & calculated amount of fluoride is not toxic So those who are not using proper amount must be aware of the consequences.