All About Dental Health & Dental Options

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• All About Dental Health Dental Options

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Introduction

• Why do we need teeth?
• Chew
• Talk
• Appearance
• Maintaining healthy teeth and gums at any age is
  an important part of preserving your overall good
  health.

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Oral Health Important to General Health

• Association between chronic and oral infection
• Diabetes
• Heart disease
• Lung disease
• Stroke
• Low-birth-weight
• Premature births

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The Effect of Poor Oral Health

• Lack of good oral health can lead to
• Chronic pain
• Chronic infections
• Poor social relationships
• Problems in speaking and learning
• Malnutrition
• Problems in getting employment

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Toothache

• Reasons for Toothache
• Holes in teeth
• Deep repairs
• Exposed tooth neck
• Teeth Grinding
• Gum infection

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How do you clean your own teeth

• Place the brush wrong against the gum line and
  brush both teeth and gums.
• Brush with agitating movement
• Do not press the brush too hard
• It is easiest to brush the same way each time so
  that all teeth are clean. First up there on the
  outside and the inside, both on the teeth and
  gums. Since the same down there.

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Good Oral Hygiene

• Protect against oral disease by
• Brushing and flossing twice daily
• Limit sweets
• Visit your dentist regularly

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Oral Disease

• There are different types of Oral Disease -
  basically
• Tooth Decay
• Gum Disease
• Dry Mouth
• Cancer

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Oral Disease Tooth Decay

• Major cause of tooth loss for all ages
• Why Seniors?
• Consume refined carbohydrates
• Sweet foods, drinks or medications
• Minimizing Tooth Decay
• Substitute refined sugars/artificial sweeteners
• Use anti-bacterial mouth rinse to reduce level of
  bacteria
• Brush and floss twice daily

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Oral Disease Gum Disease

• Causes of Gum diseases
• Gingivitis inflammation of the gum tissue
• Periodontist destruction of bone and the
  structures supporting the teeth
• Common oral problems that may result in tooth
  loss
• Respond well to proper oral hygiene routines and
  treatment by your dentist

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Oral Disease Dry Mouth

• Effects of Dry Mouth
• Medications common to seniors may decrease saliva
  production and cause dry mouth
• Without saliva the mouth and teeth become more
  susceptible to infections, ulcerations and decay
• Affects taste, speech, chewing, swallowing, and
  tolerance to dentures

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Oral Disease Cancer

• Oral Cancer
• Can develop in the mouth
• More likely to develop in older adults who smoke
  or chew tobacco and/or abuse alcohol
• Early diagnosis is crucial
• All non-healing sores in the mouth or changes in
  voice deserve close attention and monitoring

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Dental Options

• Crowns
• Rather than remove a tooth damaged by decay or
  accident, a cover known as a crown or cap can
  be placed over the remaining tooth
• Under local anesthetic, the tooth is reduced in
  size for the final crown to be cemented onto the
  tooth
• During your next visit, the permanent crown will
  be cemented onto your tooth

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Dental Options

• Replacing a lost tooth
• Three main types of artificial teeth
• Dental Implants
• Dentures
• Bridge

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Dental Options - Implants

• Dental Implant
• Placing metal posts beneath the gum into jaw
• Dental implants are frequently used as anchors
  for partial as well as full dental appliances and
  dentures.
• Dental implants are one option of tooth
  replacement that actually helps to preserve the
  patients jawbone health.
• Implant dentistry methods are tremendously
  successful. In fact, the current success rate of
  Osseointegrated Dental Implants falls right
  around 94 to 98 percent.

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Dental Options - Denture

• Dentures
• A removable or partial denture replaces all of
  the lost teeth in the arch
• The denture is held in place by clasping to the
  remaining adjacent teeth
• Two types of dentures are available - complete
  and partial dentures.
• Complete dentures cover your entire upper or
  lower jaw.

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Dental Options - Bridge

• Bridge
• A bridge, also known as a fixed partial denture,
  is a dental restoration used to replace a missing
  tooth by joining permanently to adjacent teeth or
  dental implants.
• Is a replacement that is cemented to adjacent
  teeth and cannot be removed
• A unit made up of a false tooth and two crowns is
  custom made to fill the area of the lost tooth
  and cemented in place

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Dental Options Root Canal

• Root Canal
• Teeth infected or abscessed can often be saved by
  performing root canal treatment
• An opening is made in your tooth and the infected
  nerve is removed
• After most root canal treatments, the patient
  will require a crown to support the remaining
  tooth structure

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• Visit
• www.ddperio.com
• D D Periodontal Associates NYC
• 595 Madison Avenue, Suite 2500
• New York, New York 10022
• Call us 212-759-7763