Thursday, January 27, 2011

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

Thursday, January 20, 2011

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

 

 

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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

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& 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.

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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.

 

 

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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   

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preparing  Clove oil home remedy 

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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.