Children and adolescents have healthier teeth

29. september 2010  
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The efforts of the children and ungdomstandplejen are now bearing fruit, and new figures from the Danish Health and medicines authority shows that the tandsundheden getting better and better for the country's children and young people. The new figures show that around three out of ten 18-year-old never felt the dentist's drill in a tooth. In 1990 it was one out of every ten 18-year-old who had never had the holes in the teeth that required treatment with boron.

Among the 18-year-old, who has been treated holes in the teeth, most people only put fillings in up to four tooth surfaces. Also we are talking here about a significant improvement in comparison to 1990.

For the 15-year-old is it possible to follow the development all the way back to 1980/81. At that time they had a 15-year-olds in the average fillings in 13,2 tooth surfaces. The new figures from the Danish Health and medicines authority shows that the equivalent figure measured in 2009 is 2,33.

Billede af børn med tandbørster

Three out of ten children have never been drilled in his teeth

Measured on the regions is tandsundheden among children and young people in the Capital Region followed by the Region of Zealand and Region Midtjylland. The north denmark Region and Region southern denmark are respectively fourth and fifth place.

Tandlægeforeningens president Susanne Andersen welcomes the positive development, but warns at the same time to downgrade the efforts of the children and ungdomstandplejen.

– I have no doubt that the major prevention effort in the development of children and ungdomstandplejen have contributed to the fact that children and young people have such healthy teeth in a day. But even if the average figures are good, there are unfortunately still children, who have many gaps in the teeth. And then we got new tandsundhedsproblem, namely, acid injuries of the tooth enamel as a result of the ever greater consumption of cola and other soft drinks, says Susanne Andersen.

According to tandlægernes president has some children use to get to the dentist very often, while children with healthy teeth and gums, by their dentist, are assessed to have a check-up with 1-2 year intervals.

Efforts are now much more targeted and customized than back when you called all of every sixth month, says Susanne Andersen.

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There is no warranty on the work performed?

29. september 2010  
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Question:

I have lost a gold crown put on a broken tooth. Thus, it has only been cast on the rest of the tooth that was left. It is about a year ago, I got it made.
Is the dentist be liable ift. to repair the damage, so put the crown on again without payment, or is there no guarantee on work performed?
I have the crown, so it should be that low again, without the vast processing; images, etc.

Thank you in advance!

Mike

Answer:

Dear Mike,

There is no warranty for the dental treatment. If you believe that you have been a model, you have the opportunity to complain about a dentist or treatment.

It is also not unusual that one puts a penny on anything resttand. I don't know what you have agreed. But if you have the crown, and not broken any more of the tooth, so I think that you need to seek out your dentist and have it put on again. The dentist is not obligated to repair the damage without compensation.

You can read more about how to complain about a dental treatment here.

(See below). also other questions in the letterbox that deals with complaints.

Hope you can use my answer.

With kind regards

Dentist Joan Olsen

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Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth

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How is it when you put the crown on?

28. september 2010  
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Question:

Hello. I've just been at my dentist and had a tooth in the undermunden 2 times because plastfyldningen fell of and I have now been told that if it ruptures again, there is a crown on. My question is how is it when you put the crown on, and how long does it take and what does the dentist before to make the tooth ready?

mvt. sisse.

Answer:

Dear Sisse,

When one can not make a filling in a tooth, the pga. there is so much left of the tooth, you have to put a crown on. The first time you visit the dentist he/she will drill (work on ie. prepare the tooth for a crown) all the way around the tooth and then take an impression. The image will then be sent to one of the techniques that manufactures the crown, so it fits perfectly to your tooth. It takes approx. 2 weeks from your first visit to the crown is ready to be put on your tooth. While you are waiting for the crown, will the dentist put a aluminiumskrone or a plastkrone on the tooth, so that you can eat with it, and to keep the space until the real crown gets put on

Hope you can use my answer.

With kind regards

Dentist Joan Olsen

www.tandpleje.dk/brevkassen

Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth

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figure. However, we can not guarantee answers to all the questions and answers from the

the dentist can never replace dialogue or consultation with a private doctor. A

answer through the letterbox must be seen as informational material.

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The death of a tooth after affixed to the crown

27. september 2010  
Filed in Pain and Anaesthesia, Teeth

Question:

Hello
I've got the makings of a crown on a molar,but I can still not chewing with the tooth. It is now almost 1 year ago, and the two times I have been cut something of the hump, as she believed this could be the reason for that I can't chew.
This has not helped, and now consider my dentist to the nerve may be dying, and that this may be the reason why it still hurts when I chew, and that I therefore must rodbehandles???there are other options.
This is a forsikringsskade, but will the insurance cover this, so long after.

Kind regards, susanne

Answer:

Dear Susanne,

10% of the teeth that get the crown of the “door”, becomes necrotic as we call it in jargon. So it is very common. If you have pain and can't eat with the tooth, then the rodbehandles. The alternative is that it gets pulled out.

Whether the insurance covers is a little difficult for me to answer, but what you can find out of together with your dentist.

Hope you can use my answer.

With kind regards

Dentist Joan Olsen

www.tandpleje.dk/brevkassen

Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth

Important!!!

Questions answered by the dentist can be posted on the portal in anonymous

figure. However, we can not guarantee answers to all the questions and answers from the

the dentist can never replace dialogue or consultation with a private doctor. A

answer through the letterbox must be seen as informational material.

Terms of use:
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Can root canals be avoided by changing lifestyle?

26. september 2010  
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Question:

Hello.
Thinking In the dentists never over whether root canals can be avoided by restructuring of the diet and their ways of life, as f.example,smoking, lack of exercise ?
I have had many root canals, they first as a teenager and since then have teeth just not been in order and is now falling apart in small pieces, fordii there is no longer enough tooth and no blood supply to the teeth.
There must be something that is better. Who besides I care for it.

With kind regards

Susanne

Answer:

Dear Susanne,

No it can not if the damage is already done and your nerve has been damaged. But the conversion of the diet is a good idea to avoid holes in the teeth.

Hope you can use my answer.

With kind regards

Dentist Joan Olsen

www.tandpleje.dk/brevkassen

Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth

Important!!!

Questions answered by the dentist can be posted on the portal in anonymous

figure. However, we can not guarantee answers to all the questions and answers from the

the dentist can never replace dialogue or consultation with a private doctor. A

answer through the letterbox must be seen as informational material.

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Pay for two root canals

25. september 2010  
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Question:

Hi I have 5 years ago, got a tooth rodbehandlet. I should have it crowned. The dentist finds that the tooth is not “completely dead”. So it must rodbehnadles again. They charge 1200 dkk once!! Is it true that you can get and have to pay 2 times for the same tooth rodbehandlet 2 times??? I have not paid the last bill yet.

SINCERELY Thie

Answer:

Dear Thie,

It is difficult to answer specifically. But sometimes there are more canals in a tooth, and often they are difficult to find. Perhaps that is what has happened in your case. In such a case, it is reasonable that you pay for it, because rodbehandlingen would otherwise just be more expensive the first time.

Hope you can use my answer.

With kind regards

Dentist Joan Olsen

www.tandpleje.dk/brevkassen

Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth

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figure. However, we can not guarantee answers to all the questions and answers from the

the dentist can never replace dialogue or consultation with a private doctor. A

answer through the letterbox must be seen as informational material.

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Cheating with gold in dental crowns

1. september 2010  
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The company Oversea Labs, over 900 Danish dentists use, and many have used for decades, have been unveiled in to dabble with, among other things guldindholdet in the crowns. It is DR news 21 Sunday – with the help of a dentist who could detect the alleged fraud.

Cheap dental crowns from China
The crowns from Oversea Labs are primarily manufactured in China, where wages are significantly lower than for example in Denmark. And it is one of the main explanations on the company's great success.

This will now overtandlæge Ulla Pallesen from Dentistry at the University of Copenhagen to address a sharp criticism against the company's methods.

“I might understand a little better why these crowns can be sold so cheaply. If you cheat with the gold, you can surely sell it cheaper. It, that there is so much less gold in it, I regard as a very serious matter,” says overtandlæge Ulla Pallesen.

However, it is not only the Oversea Labs that get manufactured dental crowns and other tanderstatninger in China. It is a business model used by several other Danish suppliers of crowns, bridges and other tanderstatninger.

Traces of Nickel and Lead in tandkronerne
One is that there may have been scammed with the content of gold in the tandkronerne, but in the survey as 21 Sunday got made, via the independent laboratory Force Technology, were also found the remains of both nickel and lead in the crowns, substances which ought to be found in the crowns. This has led to the Danish medicines agency will now examine whether tandkronerne pose a health risk to patients.

Snyd med guld i kroner

Overtandlæge concerned about the metals used for dental crowns

“We are concerned that the crowns, in addition to be cheaply made, also can harm people. If we find out that they are doing it, we take contact to the dentists who have purchased crowns and gave them to the patients”, says Christian Howard-Jessen.

Also overtandlæge Ulla Pallesen at University of Copenhagen expresses concern over what else is put in the tandkronerne.

“Then I would be concerned about whether they live up to the other contracts on the nasty metals that could also be therein”, says Ulla Pallesen to 21 Sunday.

The police on the way
Oversea Labs, also known as PTL, may with great probability expect a police report from the Danish medicines agency. Is that cheated with the amount of gold in the teeth, then there is the talk of scams, and it will undeniably end up with a police report.

“Now we shall hear what the company says in the interview, but my assessment is that the grant was so comprehensive, that we will proceed with the case”, says Christian Howard-Jessen, head of communications in the Danish medicines agency.

According to the Oversea Labs having the crowns contain 75 percent gold, but 21 on Sunday, has revealed that gold percentage may be as low as 27 percent. None of the 5 tested dental crowns lived up to the stated 75 percent.

“That was from 27 to 54 percent gold in the teeth, so it must say, is a significant deviation from the specification,” says head of department at Force Technology, Ole Bundgaard.

Oversea Labs
The company Oversea Labs is a giant on the Danish market for dental crowns, and supplies annually approx. The 5,000 crowns to dentists in Denmark, in addition to that there is also an export market on the tanderstatningerne from the company for both Greenland, the Faroe islands and other countries.

Broadcast from 21 on Sunday the 30. august 2010 can be seen here:
http://www.dr.dk/DR1/soendag/Udsendelser/2010/0830104333.htm

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