A tooth-healthy diet is the third important pillar of dental prophylaxis, along with proper oral hygiene techniques and regular fluoride application. The purpose of nutritional counseling is to show you the connections between your eating habits and possible diseases of the teeth and periodontium, to trigger a change in thinking towards a tooth-healthy diet and … Nutritional Counseling in Dentistry
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
A custom fluoridation splint is a plastic splint that is laboratory-manufactured to fit each of a patient’s upper and lower dental arches and serves as a medication carrier for fluoride-containing gel. Why fluoride? Fluoride is an essential trace element and indispensable for the formation of healthy bone and tooth structure.In dentistry, fluorides, especially when applied … Customized Fluoridation Splint
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
A bridge is used to restore a gap between teeth. In order to cement a fixed bridge to replace one or more teeth, the teeth intended as bridge abutments must be prepared (ground) to receive a crown or partial crown. The abutment teeth must largely match in the alignment of their longitudinal axis. In principle, … Fixed 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
A partial ceramic crown is a tooth-colored restoration fabricated indirectly (outside the mouth) for which the tooth to be restored is prepared (ground) using a specific technique and adhesively cemented (by mechanical anchorage in microscopic pores) with special materials matched to the ceramic material and tooth hard tissue. Over many decades, cast restorations have established … Ceramic Partial Crown
In linguistic usage, the term deciduous crown is used on the one hand for the natural crowns of the 1st dentition (part of the deciduous teeth protruding from the gum), but on the other hand also for fabricated crowns, which are used on deciduous teeth in case of severe substance loss in their crown area, … Milk Tooth Crown
The current state of oral hygiene is assessed by collecting an oral hygiene status. This incorporates indices that record the presence of plaque (microbial plaque) and signs of inflammation of the gingiva (the gums). Plaque or biofilm is the term used to describe the microbial plaque that forms on the surfaces and in the approximal … Oral Hygiene Status
