Monday 30 March 2015

                                                CLASSIC MORNING MISMATCH

                                            ORANGE JUICE &TOOTHPASTE!!

Ever felt a bitter taste after consumption of orange juice soon after brushing??

Who would have thought your early morning source of vitamin c had your taste buds turning your mouth sour .
Basically the sodium lauryl sulphate of the toothpaste suppresses your sweet
receptors&has a dampening effect on the generally sweet taste of orange
This sulphate destroys the phospholipids in our body which enhance our
sweet receptors, Thereby the sls inhibits the sweet receptors and this is how
your sweet taste of orange turns sour.

So next time when you consume your vitamin c source see that you have given a gap of half hour after you have brushed.




Thursday 12 March 2015

Dental fillings – what you need to know

 

   When you have a cavity in your mouth, your dentist may suggest you get it filled,    
   so all thanks to technological advances, dentists and patients today have several  
   choices when it comes to selecting materials to fill cavities. But still one of the most
   common misconceptions we find in dentistry, is that most people think that all white
   fillings are the same. This is far from the truth.
   There are fundamentally two types of white fillings, porcelain and resin. We often    
   compare the different between porcelain fillings and resin fillings to the difference
   between your plastic picnic plates versus your fine china dinnerware. They are like chalk
   
and cheese, totally different products.

   In terms of terminology plastic white filling can be referred to composite or resin.
   Porcelain fillings are often called inlays, ceramic. Both types of restorations utilize the
   same blue light, it is used to set hard the cement material. The resin is placed in soft and set
   hard with the light, whereas the porcelain restorations are hard prefabricated filling that is
   bonded into the cavity. When a filling is on the larger size requiring corners or what is termed as
   cusp replacements. We always recommend porcelain reconstruction of the tooth to ensure that
   you are not back in the dental chair fixing the same tooth again anytime soon.


Porcelain or Ceramic fillings have excellent aesthetics. It restores natural appearance of the tooth. These fillings are more resistant to staining than composites. Compare to silver fillings they offer a metal-free alternative to your filling needs. For those concerned with environmentally conscious dentistry and to limit their exposure to metal toxins, then ceramic fillings are a viable alternative to filling your cavities.
Again comparing to metal fillings Ceramic fillings is generally much more resilient and less susceptible to their metal counterparts. The porcelain material commonly used in ceramic fillings can last more than 15 years and, additionally, are typically much stronger then the silver used in metal fillings, consequently providing greater protection from the filling breaking and the need to have then repaired.
At I DENT, both options of white fillings are readily available. It’s a matter of working out 
with you which option best suits your expectations and budget
.

Thursday 5 March 2015