Dental Surgery in Prague 3 - MuDr. Sabina Sudolska

Prevention

Regular check-ups at the surgery and appropriately and regularly done oral hygiene can help successfully fight bacterial plaque, which causes diseases such as caries, gum ailments and advanced stages of paradentosis and is implicated with unpleasant breath.

So regular brushing can prevent you from having complications such as inflammation in of teeth, painful bleeding gums, and possible necessity of having to substitute an already lost tooth.

As mentioned above, the cause of two basic infectious diseases in the buccal cavity (caries, gum ailment and odntobothrion bone ailment) is bacterial plaque. It is a soft biofilm from remnants of food with a high concentration of bacteria.

Unless the plaque is properly eliminated through oral hygiene, it is able within 2-3 days to harden into tartar, which the patient is unable to remove from the surface of the tooth himself.

Caries

This is an infliction of hard dental tissues. The activities of bacterial plaque cause the loss of mineral substances (so called demineralization) from the enamel layer (the strongly mineralized surface layer of a tooth). This loss of the minerals is caused by acids, which originate as a product of glycolysis from food. Click for further information

Parodontitis

This is an inflammatory ailment, which affects tissues in the neighborhood of a tooth, such as gum, bone, odontobothrion and suspensory apparatus (anchors teeth in the bone socket). It is triggered by the presence of bacterial plaque (that covers the surface of teeth, or the surface of dental substances). Click for further information

Fillings

They substitute the part of a tooth removed during drilling of the caries usually of a small or medium extent. The choice of a suitable material depends on many factors. It is necessary to assess the extent of the defect, placement of a filling, degree of cariosity, level of hygiene, and, of course, to meet the requirements of the patient.

There are three types of filling materials

• amalgam fillings
• composite (white) fillings
• glass ionomer fillings