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 Tooth broken accident
Try to find broken piece of tooth and gently
clean it. Then, call your dentist immediately. Sometimes, dentist
can use the broken tooth to reattach. When fractured into pulp
with bleeding, root canal treatment may be needed to save the
tooth.
When the whole tooth
is out of tooth socket from trauma
Cleanse the open socket and bite down gauze or clean tissue paper to control bleeding. Rinse the whole tooth under tap water and place it in a container with milk to keep it moist. Call your dentist for reimplantation. Success rate of reimplantation after one hour diminishes dramatically.
Extreme toothache
Taking pain medication alone will not ease toothache from cavity. Do take over the counter pain medication (Tylenol or/and Advil) and call your dentist. Closter Dental can be reached for 24 hours a day.
When a toddler's tooth
is loose or submerged into gum from a fall.
Gently clean the area and have toddler to bite down on gauze to stop bleeding. Give the toddler some pain medication and contact your family dentist. Baby teeth can be repositioned easily if acted on quickly.
Bleeding continues
after teeth extraction
Gently clean the extraction area and place clean gauze on an extraction site. Bite down firmly on the gauze with NO talking in order not to disturb a firm pressure on the gauze. Do not spit out your saliva but swallow it. Usually biting down continuously for one hour will stop most of bleeding.
When is implant indicated?
When a tooth or several teeth are removed, teeth can be replaced without removing any sound tooth enamel in adjacent area.
7. What are the materials for implants?
Implant fixture is made of medical grade titanium that is the most biocompatible without any side effect.
8. Can I receive even though my doctor tells me that I don't have enough bone to support it?
In successful implant, these should be enough height and thickness of supporting bone. If you are lacking sound bone, you probably need bone grafting to restore the lost bone to support implant.
Any side effect of
Implants?
Implants do fail when the supporting bone do not attach firmly to implant for whatever reason. Careful treatment planning and surgery in placing the implant fixtures and regular check up after treatment can minimize failure.
I'm a diabetic. Can
I still receive dental implant?
If blood sugar level is well controlled with medication, then you can have successful implant.
I hear implant surgery
is very painful!
If you need many implants to replace several missing teeth, then you may experience some discomfort and low-grade pain. But, usually you only need one or two implants, and you will not have much discomfort. Each patient experiences different level of discomforts after surgery. But, many patients do confess that implant surgery was not painful, as they have thought.
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