Incisors Angle Classification

This is Incisors Angle Classification important in dentistry. Most of knowledge in dental including this criteria.

General Dental Practice

I'm Student in University Of Malaya.

This is my General Dental Practice subject which is discuss about:


Marginal Leakage

How to prevent marginal leakage? We do moisture control in composite restoration. Matrix band is not metal but transparent which is call Auto-matrix. This not provide to student but lecture for studying.

What is excessive wear area? Actually in the posterior teeth. Composite restoration is not or selective in this area.

There are 2 type of post:

Fiber and metal

Fiber for anterior teeth and metal always on posterior teeth.

Luting agent cement: Example, Zink Phospate, GIC, resin modified GIC, Polycarboxylate, Composite resin Based cement.

Ha ha: DIfferent between GIC & resin modified GIC is modified setting reaction.

That's all. See you later with other knowledge. Update your mind !

Oh forgot my name is EMRAN.

Dental Bridge from cosmetic dentistry

Dental Bridge from cosmetic dentistry


This is dental treatment when you consult in dental clinic.

How do you know to do Dental Bridge ?

If you have missing teeth and have good oral hygiene practices, you should discuss this procedure with your cosmetic dentist. If spaces are left unfilled, they may cause the surrounding teeth to drift out of position. Additionally, spaces from missing teeth can cause your other teeth and your gums to become far more susceptible to tooth decay and gum disease.

This is like denture to replace your missing teeth or tooth. But it is fix and cannot remove after it done inside your mouth.

3 types of dental bridge:

Traditional Fixed Bridge


A dental bridge is a false tooth, known as a pontic, which is fused between two porcelain crowns to fill in the area left by a missing tooth. There two crowns holding it in place that are attached onto your teeth on each side of the false tooth. This is known as a fixed bridge. This procedure is used to replace one or more missing teeth. Fixed bridges cannot be taken out of your mouth as you might do with removable partial dentures.

Resin Bonded Bridges

The resin bonded is primarily used for your front teeth. Less expensive, this bridge is best used when the abutment teeth are healthy and don't have large fillings. The false tooth is fused to metal bands that are bonded to the abutment teeth with a resin which is hidden from view. This type of bridge reduces the amount of preparation on the adjacent teeth.

Cantilever Bridges

In areas of your mouth that are under less stress, such as your front teeth, a cantilever bridge may be used. Cantilever bridges are used when there are teeth on only one side of the open space. This procedure involves anchoring the false tooth to one side over one or more natural and adjacent teeth.

COST


The average cost of a single fixed bridge depends on many factors, from which region you're in to how many and which type of bridges are needed. Typically dental bridge cost ranges from $500-900 per tooth. Dental insurance typically pays for about half of the cost of the bridge. This is a cost per tooth in the bridge, and doesn't include the costs for any anchoring crowns on either side of the bridge.

In the case of a Maryland type bridge, costs range from $250. to $550. for each attaching wing and $600. to $1200. for each false tooth or pontic.


Bridges are natural in appearance, and usually require only two visits to your dentist. If you maintain good oral hygiene, your fixed bridge should last as many as ten years or more.


It is common for your teeth to be mildly sensitive to extreme temperatures for a few weeks after the treatment. The build up of bacteria formed from food acids on your teeth and gums can become infected if proper oral hygiene is not followed.

See your dentist now !

From : Emran Aznan

Observation and Commentary On the Dental Industry

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Greg Oden Wants to Be a Dentist

One of the refreshing things about Greg Oden, who will almost certainly be the first pick in the NBA draft no matter who wins the lottery, is that he doesn't seem particularly impressed with himself. He seems to view his basketball skills as just an accident of genetics, not a trait that makes him a superior human being.

And that is most evident when he talks about his NBA future, as he did in an ESPN interview this morning. Without fail, when he's asked whether being a professional basketball player is a lifelong dream, Oden explains that his actual dream is to become a dentist. That's what he wanted to be as a child, and his physical size is actually a hindrance toward that dream: His hands are so big that he'd have a hard time getting them in a patient's mouth.

Oden's devotion to fighting tooth decay has been on display for as long as he's been a public figure. "I like dentistry," Oden said at the Final Four. "I just went to the dentist. It was nice." "I wanted to be a dentist back in the day," he told Men's Fitness. "I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he said a dentist," his agent Mike Conley Sr. says.

I hope Oden plays 15 years or so in the NBA, until he's 60 35. And then I hope he goes back to school, gets the undergrad degree, and moves on to dental school. Yeah, his hands are bigger than most, but a man as devoted to teeth as Oden is shouldn't miss his true calling in life.

And that's the tooth

The Western Star

I have an enviable record with dentists.

Rather let us say I had an enviable record with dentists. Up until last week I had been to see a dentist once in 23 years. Last week made it twice.

In 1999 I went to see a dentist in Toronto, at OH's prodding, the first time I had seen a member of that lofty profession in 15 years. Despite the dire warnings of doctors, nurses and family members at the time, I didn't so much as have a cavity.

For some reason known only to angels and archangels I saw no reason dental history shouldn't repeat itself.

If my teeth were as hard as my skull and the rest of my bones (vertebrae would be an exception) for more than half my life, why couldn't they continue to render stellar service for the next half-century or so?

Consequently I allowed another eight years to go by before allowing myself the dubious pleasure of making another appointment with a medical professional dedicated to pursuing the tooth and nothing but the tooth.

I think I was hoping that even if one or more of my teeth had suffered slow decay, the art and science of dentistry would have reached new heights by now. Or is that depths? Whatever, I was foreseeing sitting in a dentist's chair - make that my chair - in leisurely comfort while he worked away somewhere on the periphery of my consciousness.

By this time, I reasoned, pain has been banished completely from the dental experience, if you don't include the bill. I could see myself halfway through a magazine article when the doctor announces that his work here is done and I have to go, and no, I can't take the magazine with me because I mightn't be back for another 10 years.

Consequently I approached the appointed hour without undue apprehension.

This fellow was also OH's dentist and I hadn't heard her make any complaints. Couldn't be too much wrong with him. But I couldn't shake the dread entirely.

As I made my way along a corridor of other dental offices, I almost relaxed completely. The door to each office was open and sounds of laughter and light banter emanated from them all.

I thought for a moment OH must have made a wrong turn and ended up at one of those houses. You know, where the welcoming red light burns brightly at all hours of the day and night. Then I realized Grand Falls/Windsor would never tolerate that kind of enterprise, unless the mill closed completely, of course. Even then, the doors to each room wouldn't have all been open.

Wouldn't take a lot of work to convert the building, though. Thought I might mention that to the dentist in case teeth went out of style, or all dropped out of our mouths due to global warming or something.

The doctor himself was a friendly young fellow with a friendly female assistant. I was half-expecting him to ask me to open my mouth so when he did I was all ready. He poked around a bit and decided to take some X-rays. I was used to the results of X-rays having been through that process already, some eight years ago. No cavities, piece of cake.

I was about to learn that 'no cavities' and 'piece of cake' didn't necessarily belong together as phrases. In fact, the terms were mutually exclusive. My 23-year honeymoon period with the dentistry profession was about to come to a crashing end.

The assistant sat down and took out a notebook and pen. How bad must it be if a dentist couldn't remember a couple of fillings? My morale began rapidly picking up speed as it plunged toward the bottom of wherever morals go when they're headed in the wrong direction.

My friend the dentist - I began to suspect we'd be together long enough to become at least strong acquaintances - started rhyming off instructions to the young woman with the pen. Very little of it meant anything to me except when he'd say, "Small cavity in @$% & #", or "Cavity in & #%@$."

Actually I wasn't too upset with that. Lord, a man had to have a few cavities scattered over a quarter century, right? I came to my taps when he nonchalantly tossed out in the same tone of voice, "Root canal."

Now I've heard of root canals. To me they carry the same connotations as "body dismemberment" and "gum replacement." In my tormented imagination, a sign immediately appears over the office door, Little Shop of Horrors. "Root canal" is synonymous with pain and nightmares.

Then I remember OH talking about root canals she's had.

"Nothing to them," she says. "I fell asleep during the last root canal I had."

I am immediately cheered, until I remember back to our college days when for fun we used to see who could stand the most pain. We had a strange idea of fun back then and that's not the half of it. Whatever, OH invariably won. She would let someone hold a lighted cigarette so close to her skin that the flesh would turn red. She seemed totally immune to pain.

OH isn't the person to recommend an absence of pain.

So I have to see my friend the dentist again, and again and probably again. What I'll probably wind up doing is asking for a copy of the bill in advance and holding it in front of me during the procedure. Perhaps consciousness of one pain will cancel out the other.

Remember that Johnny Horton song, "Every doggie has his day, every puppy has to pay, everybody has to meet his Waterloo?"

Ride on, Napoleon, I'm coming right behind you.

Readers can contact Ed Smith by e-mail at edsmith@persona.ca or by mail at 4 Brinex Ave., Springdale, NL, AOJ ITO.