As part of nutritional counseling in dentistry, keeping a food diary (nutrition log) can be useful. The goal of the diary is to raise your awareness of tooth-damaging sugary or acidic meals, to limit them thereafter, and to eat a permanently tooth-healthier diet. The vast majority of people today are aware of the link between … Food Diary: Analyze Your Diet
Dental care has a high priority today. Well-groomed teeth are considered attractive and radiate joie de vivre, health and well-being. To keep the teeth healthy and free of caries and periodontitis for life, the essential factors of an optimal basic oral hygiene are first: Twice a day the use of a fluoride toothpaste. The choice … Dental Floss and other Aids for Daily Oral Hygiene
Children insured by a statutory health insurance fund between the ages of six and seventeen are entitled to dental individual prophylaxis (IP) services, known as IP services. These support the parents’ efforts at home to maintain their child’s oral hygiene by addressing the child’s individual characteristics. As a result of good dental health education, many … Individual Prophylaxis for Children
An individual medication carrier is a plastic splint made for one or both jaws that is loaded with fluoride or chlorhexidine gel and placed in the mouth. This medication carrier is designed to provide a longer residence time for the active ingredient on the tooth surface or gingiva (the gums). Indications (areas of application) The … Individual Drug Carrier
Interdental space hygiene refers to oral hygiene techniques that are tailored to the more difficult-to-clean interdental spaces (approximal spaces, interdental spaces), which are not covered by the electric or manual toothbrush. To keep teeth healthy and free of decay and gum disease for life, the essential factors of optimal basic oral hygiene are first: Twice … Interdental Space Hygiene
CAD/CAM dentures are the fabrication of crowns, bridges or implant accessories using computer-aided technology. Both the design (CAD: Computer Aided Design) and the manufacture (CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing) are carried out with the aid of intelligent software programs and by milling units networked with them. The prerequisite for this was the rapid developments in computer … CAD/CAM Dentures
An overdenture (synonyms: cover denture prosthesis, coverdenture, overdenture, hybrid prosthesis, overlay denture) is used to replace the teeth of a jaw. It is a combination of a removable element and one or more elements that are fixed in the mouth. An overlay denture has the same shape and dimensions as a complete denture (full denture) … Cover Denture Prosthesis
A replacement denture (synonyms: second denture, duplicate denture) is a dental prosthesis that is used to bridge periods of time when the higher quality, permanently worn denture is not available. The fabrication of a replacement prosthesis makes sense in order to be safe from imponderables that one would otherwise have to endure toothless and thus … Replacement Prosthesis
An extension bridge (synonyms: free-end bridge, trailer bridge) is used to restore a shortened or interrupted row of teeth by attaching a pontic to two interlocked crowns. The extension of the bridge is strictly limited by the special features of the bridge statics. Bridge statics Due to the structural requirements of an extension bridge explained … Extension Bridge
A facebow (synonyms: transfer bow, transfer arch) is a transfer device used in the fabrication of crowns, bridges or dentures, among other things. The facebow is used to determine the positional relationship of the upper jaw to the temporomandibular joints and to the base of the skull and to transfer this information to the articulator … Facebow
In order to place a bridge to replace one or more teeth, the teeth intended as bridge abutments must largely match in the alignment of their long axes. If the difference is too great, there is a risk that the pulp (tooth pulp) will be damaged by the preparation (grinding). This can be avoided by … Split Bridge
An interim prosthesis (synonyms: transitional prosthesis, provisional prosthesis, temporary prosthesis) is a simple, removable partial denture (partial denture) used to replace missing teeth. Its service life is limited to the wound healing phase after surgery until a definitive (final) restoration is made. During the wound healing phase after a tooth extraction (tooth removal), not only … Interim Prosthesis Options for Dental Implants
