Tooth discolouration can be caused by many different effects, from tooth injury to genetics. There are many different cosmetic procedures available at the City of London Dental Clinic. Your and the dentist will choose what the best cosmetic treatment option is best for your discoloured teeth. You may even have decided want you want, by viewing advertisements. Your City of London dentist will explain all of the options, and will tell you how your teeth will respond to each option. The various types of cosmetic procedures include: whitening (in-office and at-home), dental bonding, Lumineers, porcelain veneers, and possible dental crowns. These are all procedures that are regularly available at your City of London Dental Clinic. If you are pleased with what the dental team presents to you to help with your discoloured teeth, a complete examination, along with dental X-rays, dental teeth impressions and digital photographs of your mouth. After the dentist and dental team have performed all of the necessary diagnostic procedure, they can begin solving your tooth discolouration problem. Some procedures are more involved and take more time than other procedures. You and your City of London dentist will decide what works best for you.

Your Central London dentist can help you with tooth pain when it occurs. This tooth pain can occur as a result of years of neglect, or can occur due to pulpal injury. Pulpal injury to the tooth usually occurs when a cavity becomes too deep and the tooth has not received for this cavity. It can also occur if the dentinal layer of the tooth is exposed to the environment due to wear of the enamel or some other injury to the tooth. Tooth sensitivity is one of the most common causes of tooth pain. Dental pulp problems are reversible unless tooth decay has progressed into the pulp tissue. A root canal must be performed in order to eliminate tooth pain due to caries exposure. All infected pulpal and dentinal tissue must be removed, and all of the bacteria removed or killed. Other pulpal pain may be the result of sweets, abrupt temperature changes, and touch. If surrounding tissue is involved, an abscess may form. This abscess will be treated by your Central London dentist. If these problems are not addressed and treated, you will have more serious problems in the future. After your Central London dentist treats your tooth pain, the pain should subside in 24-48 hours. At times antibiotic and pain medication may be required. If the tooth cannot be saved, your tooth may require removal.

Your City of London dentist says that, “putting your baby or very young child to bed with almost any liquid but water can result in baby bottle tooth decay (BBTD).” BBTD can be caused by almost any liquid but water. It can result from having your baby fall asleep sucking on formula, juice, milk, soft drinks, and sugared drinks and water with sugar in it. Also, by allowing them to breastfeed for too long or suck on their formula bottle for too long, can result in BBTD. Sugary drinks building up in a baby’s mouth produces acids using the oral bacteria already present. The upper front teeth are the one’s mostly affected in BBTD syndrome. This causes problems with your child’s primary teeth and can even affect the adult teeth. Here are some pointers from your City of London dentist about keeping your child’s teeth healthy; 1) Do not put your child to bed with a bottle; 2) restrict your child’s bottle feedings to mealtimes; 3) your child should learn to drink from a cup as soon as possible; 4) clean your child’s mouth regularly; and, 5) use a small soft toothbrush and water to clean your child’s teeth. At 2 years of age, your child should be brushing their teeth twice daily with a very small about of toothpaste.

Oral piercing has become a fad over the years. However, this fad has resulted in many problems that may make one seek emergency dental or medical care after the piercings. Here, your London dentist explains some problems. For example, several commonly occurring problems following oral piercing includes, but are not limited to; swelling in the area of the piercing, pain, inflammation, infections, gum tissue injuries, and increased salivary flow. Other problems include; broken teeth, blood poisoning, and blood clots. During the piercing procedure, if the needle hits a blood vessel, uncontrolled bleeding may result. With tongue piercings, swollen tongues that can close your airway may result, leading to a life or death situation. All of these problems are not usually considered when choosing to get an oral piercing. Your London dentist also explains that oral piercings can increase the transmission of hepatitis B and C, and herpes simplex virus. Oral piercings can also increase the risk of endocarditis, an inflammation of the heart valve, and other heart and peripheral blood vessel problems, by introducing oral bacteria into the bloodstream. Numbness and nerve damage may also occur, as well as other difficulties with normal oral functions. Your taste perception may be altered, along with possible allergies to certain metals used, and possible aspiration of the jewellery. Almost 50% of people who have had their tongue pierced had at least one chipped tooth as a result of the piercing over a 4 year period of time. So, be wise, and keep your beautiful smile with the help of the London Dental Clinic.

People brush their teeth to keep them in good shape and clean. However, if you brush your teeth immediately after soda consumption may accelerate the damage to your teeth rather than help preserve them. This is most likely due to the damaging effect that the soda’s acid has on tooth enamel, and with this acid present, tooth brushing can further worsen the enamel damage. A research study has reported that allowing thirty to sixty minutes following the consumption of the soda can help to protect the enamel. This works by allowing the mineral buffering action of the saliva time to work. The longer the waiting period after soda consumption, the less likely the enamel damage. The normal buffering pH of saliva is 6.2-7.0. If the saliva’s pH drops below 5.5, the tooth enamel can weaken and begin to demineralise. Soda has a pH of 2.5, due to the ingredient phosphoric acid, and can cause a lot of enamel damage. Saliva normalizes this acidic and protects the teeth. If tooth enamel is allowed to weaken, the tooth has a higher probability of breaking. Chewing sugarless gum after soda consumption is a good solution.

Ankylosis is a term used in dentistry when a tooth is directly bonded to its surrounding bone. Teeth that are ankylosed are more often difficult to extract than teeth that are not ankylosed. It is difficult to determine if a tooth or teeth is/are ankylosed prior to the oral surgery procedure using dental X-rays. By performing an oral examination to determine if the tooth has any visible movement, your City of London dentist can make a fairly good educated guess to determine if the tooth is ankylosed. If the tooth is ankylosed, there should be no visible or palpable movement. Usually when ankylosed teeth are extracted, a portion of the surrounding bone will crack and be removed together with the tooth. Your City of London dentist will check to see if there are remaining other sections of loose oral bone in the extraction socket or in the immediate vicinity of the extraction site. These pieces of bone and other splinters of bone should be removed during this surgical procedure, in order to expedite the healing process. If these loss sections of bone are not removed, healing will take longer and be more painful. The loose pieces of bone left in place will eventually exfoliate and more through the gum tissue until they reach the surface. If this occurs in the future, you may feel a splinter type projection on the gum tissue that can become rather painful, and should be removed. Your City of London dentist will take all precautions to make sure that your tooth removal experience is pleasant.

Your London dentist will tell you the benefits of chewing gum. Some of these include that chewing gum stimulated the salivary glands to release saliva, and exercises your teeth and chewing muscles. There are periodontal ligaments that attach your teeth to the oral bone, and stimulating these ligaments to activate their cells to stimulate healthy oral bone growth and remodelling. It is better for you to chew sugarless gum than it is regular chewing gum. Sugarless chewing gum does not provide a sugar source for oral bacteria. It helps to stimulate salivary flow, which helps to wash away bacteria, plaque, and food debris, thus reducing cavity and gingivitis risk. For those patients that experience xerostomia (or dry mouth) this can help to save the teeth. Chewing gum also helps to exercise your jaw muscles. Numerous types of sugarless gums are presently available on the market. Several of these have additional ingredients to aid in teeth cleaning, and some also contain xylitol and calcium. It has been shown in the dental scientific literature that xylitol can help the remineralisation of tooth enamel. Chewing gums that contain calcium aid in increasing the level of calcium in the saliva, thus aiding the remineralisation process. You should avoid citrusy containing gums, as they may aid in the production of damaging acids.

A dry socket usually occurs when the blood clot is lost from the extraction site in the mouth after a tooth was removed. They usually occur more frequently at the lower wisdom teeth extraction sites than the upper wisdom teeth extraction sites. Your Central London dentist can give you advice about how to prevent a dry socket from occurring, and help treat a dry socket if it does occur. Prior and post oral surgery instruction will be given to you both orally and written if you are to have a tooth or teeth removed. Your Central London dentist will tell you to: keep the dental gauze in place that he places after the extraction for 20-30 minutes; eat soft foods and drink a lot of liquids for a few days; do not smoke as the sucking will dislodge the blood clot and the smoke in your mouth will change the bleed vessels in your gums and cause the blood clot to shrink to fast; and do not use alcoholic beverages as they will help to dissolve the blood clot. Also, medications that cause bleeding, such as ibuprofen, should not be used, but instead to use Tylenol-based products. Dental patients should also be told not to pick at the blood clot if they see excess tissue at the site area, as this will resorb itself during healing. Patients should not eat any hard or sharp foods like chips, as these might cut into the blood clot and get stuck in the extraction site and delay proper healing. If the blood clot is lost, a dry socket will occur, and this means that the extraction site will have to heal from the inside outwards. If you are in a lot of pain from a dry socket, you should visit your Central London dental clinic, and have a medicated dressing placed inside the extraction site to help deaden the nerve pain. You may need as many as three such treatments until your extraction site is healed. Dry sockets are not just limited to the wisdom teeth areas, and can occur following the extraction of any tooth/teeth. Make sure you follow your dentist’s directions to avoid this unpleasant experience.

Your City of London dentist is very capable of dealing with dental injuries, from a chipped tooth or infected tooth, all the way to an avulsed tooth (i.e., one that is knocked out). Make sure that you have available your City of London’s Dental Clinic’s telephone number available with you, in case a dental injury does occur. Despite any type of dental injury, dental X-rays will be requires so the dentist can decide the extent of the injury. Even a slightly chipped tooth will have to be X-rayed, in order to rule of pulpal injury. When a tooth is chipped or broken, it can possibly be repaired by simply placing a dental filling or bonding the tooth with tooth coloured material. Other times a porcelain veneer or crown may have to be used to repair the tooth. If the pulp of the tooth is involved, a root canal should be performed before the tooth is restored properly. Other times, especially during a sports activity, a tooth may be knocked out. If the tooth is immediately placed in milk of a saline solution, it may be able to be replaced into the mouth. Do not clean the tooth, and only handle it by the crown portion of the tooth, as this is more favourable. The dentist may be able to reinsert the tooth and splint it in replace with wires or bonding material to see if it takes over time. Your City of London dentist is also experiences with dealing with soft tissue lacerations inside the mouth. If the lacerations are very large and outside the mouth, your City of London dentist can pack the laceration or apply a gauze material until you can make it to a hospital or surgeons office. However, you should go there immediately. Your City of London dentist will suggest a mouth guard if you in fact do play sports to protect your teeth.

When you visit your City of London Dental Clinic, the dentist and dental hygienist will properly instruct you on oral health care. Proper oral hygiene habits must begin at a very early age, however it is never too late to start, and to relearn old habits. While at the City of London Dental Clinic, you should be taught how to properly brush and floss your teeth, and how to properly brush your tongue. Dental plaque should be properly remover at least twice daily. The crevices of your tongue contain a lot of surface area where dental bacteria and plaque can reside, and leave your mouth unclean. They can also affect your taste sensations, as your taste buds may be clogged if there is too much plague and food debris build-up on your tongue. Your City of London dental hygienist and dentist will suggest the use of a soft or medium bristled brush, with a very small amount of toothpaste. Your tongue should be brushed with the toothbrush being held in your hand in a comfortable many, forward and backward, with regular rinsing in between several strokes. This procedure may also be performed with just water, but it should be done carefully in order to ensure the maximum plaque removal.