Why is flouride water useful for teeth?

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Preventive Dentistry

What is the purpose of preventive dentistry?

I know 3 types of prevention. They are primary (involes those measures which prevent onset of the disease), secondary (is recognizing the disease early in it’s progress and repairing damages while they are minimal), tertiary(involves those measures taken after the disease process has done cansiderable damage).

What types of prevention do you know? Describe each of them.

Primary prevention is prevention in the obsolute sense, while secondary and tertiary prevention are relative terms because they must include those reperative and curative measures which arrest the disease process and prevent it’s spread and increased severity.

What is the prevention of dental caries?

The most effective approach to the prevention of disease has always been that which involves the least patient effort. Hence, the public health measures of water fluoridation has always been the preferred first lime of defense against dental caries.Therefore those personal preventive remain important for any person who desires to prevent or control the main dental diseases.

Why is removing of plaque important?

Plaque in not a single entity.Certain types of plaque appear to be associated with invitation of dental caries, others with formation of caleus and still others with certain inflammatory responses.

What preventive measures do you know?

Five general strategies are key to preventing cavities: good oral hygiene proper diet, flü oride, sealants and antibacterial therapy.

What are the methods of brushing and interproximal cleaning?

There are following methods of brushing: side-to-side method, roll method, Bass method (effective for patients with gingival inflammation). The method recommended should be individualized according to the patients weds.

What is the benefit from flossing?

The importance of flossing to clean the areas between the teeth. Floss is the most useful in cleaning the interproximal areas of the teeth from the contact point down to the sulcus.There are methods of interdental cleaning: floss, wooden sticks, interdental brushes, interspace brushes.

Why is flouride water useful for teeth?

Flouride can make the teeth, particularly the enamel, more resistant to the acid that helps cause cavities.Fluoride taken internaly is particulary effective while the teeth are growing and hardening until about age 11. İ f a water supply has too much flouride, the teeth can because spotted or discolored.