Children and young people have healthy teeth
29th September 2010
Filed in News
Efforts in child and adolescent dental care is now bearing fruit, and new figures from the Health Protection Agency show that dental health is getting better and better with the country's children and youth. The new figures show that all three of the ten 18-year-old has never felt the dentist's drill into a tooth. In 1990, one out of every ten 18-year-old who had never experienced tooth decay, which required treatment with boron.
Among the 18-year-olds who have been treated tooth decay, most have only been put fillings in up to four tooth surfaces. Again, there is a marked improvement compared to 1990.
For the 15-year-old, it is possible to follow the evolution dating back to 1980/81. Back then, the 15-year average of 13.2 fillings in tooth surfaces. The new figures from the Health Protection Agency show that the corresponding figures in 2009 is 2.33.
Three out of ten children have never been bored in his teeth
Compiled by region is dental health among children and adolescents most in the Capital Region, followed by Region Zealand and NSW. Region North and Region South Denmark occupies the fourth and fifth place.
Dental Association President Susanne Andersen welcomes the positive developments, but warn against downgrade the efforts of child and adolescent dental care.
- I have no doubt that the major prevention efforts in child and adolescent dental care have contributed to children and young people as healthy teeth today. But although the average figures are impressive, there is unfortunately still children who have many cavities. And then we got a new dental health problem: syreskader on tooth enamel due to the increasing consumption of cola and other soft drinks, says Susanne Andersen.
According to dentists President has some kids need to get to the dentist very often, while there are also children with healthy teeth and gums that their dentist is estimated to only having to have a check up every 1-2 years.
- Efforts are now much more targeted and individualized than when sought for all every six months, says Susanne Andersen.
Is there any warranty on work performed?
29th September 2010
Filed in Complaints
Question:
I have lost a golden crown that was placed on a broken tooth. It therefore has only been cast in the residual of the tooth was left. It is about a year ago that I got it made.
Is the dentist liable for damages in relation to repair the damage, then put the crown on again without payment or there is no warranty on the work done?
I have the crown, so it should be that low again, without the extensive preparatory work, prints, etc.
Thank you in advance!
Mike
Answer:
Dear Mike,
Basically, there is no guarantee for dental treatment. If you believe that you have been wrongly treated, you have the opportunity to complain about the dentist or treatment.
Nor is it unusual that you put a penny on anything remaining tooth. I do not know what you have agreed. But if you have the crown, and there has not broken any more of the tooth, so I think that you should visit your dentist and have it put on again. The dentist is not obligated to repair the damage without remuneration.
You can read more about how to complain about a dental treatment here.
See if necessary. also other issues in the letterbox dealing with complaints .
Hope you can use my answer.
Sincerely
Dentist Joan Olsen
Tandpleje.dk ™ - The road to healthier teeth
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How does it work when you put a crown on?
28th September 2010
Filed in Other Questions
Question:
Hey. I've just been with my dentist and had made a tooth in the mouth 2 times because the plastic filling fell out and I've now been told that if it splits again, a crown on. My question is how it works when you put a crown on and how long does it take and what does the dentist beforehand to make the tooth ready?
MVH. Sisse.
Answer:
Dear Sisse,
When you can not make a filling in the tooth, because there is so much left of the tooth, you have to put a crown on. The first time you visit the dentist, he / she bore (ie prepare. Prepare the tooth for a crown) all the way around the tooth and then take an impression. The impression will then be sent to a technician who makes the crown so it fits in your tooth. It takes approx. 2 weeks from your first visit, the crown is ready to be put on your tooth. While you wait for the crown, the dentist will put an aluminum crown or a plastic crown on the tooth, so that you can eat with it and to keep the site until the proper crown is put on
Hope you can use my answer.
Sincerely
Dentist Joan Olsen
Tandpleje.dk ™ - The road to healthier teeth
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Death after dental crown attached
27th September 2010
Filed in Pain and Anesthesia , Teeth
Question:
Hello
I have put a crown on a molar, but I still can not chew with the tooth. It is now almost 1 year ago, and twice I have sanded some of the stand as she thought this might be the reason why I can not chew.
This has not helped, and now think my dentist that the nerve may be dying, and that this may cause it still hurts when I chew, and that I therefore must rodbehandles?? There are other options.
This is an insurance claim, but insurance will cover this so long after.
Sincerely, susanne
Answer:
Dear Suzanne,
10% of teeth that causes crown on "door" becomes necrotic as we call it in jargon. So it is very common. If you have pain and can not eat with the tooth, then the rodbehandles. The alternative is that it is pulled out.
If insurance cover is a little hard for me to answer, but you can find out with your dentist.
Hope you can use my answer.
Sincerely
Dentist Joan Olsen
Tandpleje.dk ™ - The road to healthier teeth
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Can root canals be avoided by changing lifestyle?
26th September 2010
Filed in Teeth
Question:
Hey.
Do you think the dentists never about root canals can be avoided by conversion of dietary and life habits such as smoking, lack of exercise?
I've had many root canals, the first as a teenager and since then the teeth just not been in order and are now about to fall apart into small pieces, fordii no longer enough tooth and no blood supply to the teeth.
There must and will be able to do something that is better. Who besides me interested in it.
Sincerely
Susanne
Answer:
Dear Suzanne,
No it can not if the damage is done and your nerve has been damaged. But the transformation of the diet is a good idea to avoid tooth decay.
Hope you can use my answer.
Sincerely
Dentist Joan Olsen
Tandpleje.dk ™ - The road to healthier teeth
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Pay for two root canals
25th September 2010
Filed in Complaints
Question:
Hi I have 5 years ago had a root canal treated tooth. I will then have the crowned. The dentist finds out that the tooth is not "completely dead". So it must rodbehnadles again. They call for 1200 kr off to! Is it true that you can get and have to pay 2 times to get the same tooth root canal treated 2 times?? I have not paid the final bill yet.
MVH Thie
Answer:
Dear Thie,
It's hard to say exactly at. But sometimes there are more channels in a tooth, and often they are difficult to find. This is perhaps what has happened in your case. In this case it is reasonable that you pay for it because rodbehandlingen would otherwise just be the more expensive the first time.
Hope you can use my answer.
Sincerely
Dentist Joan Olsen
Tandpleje.dk ™ - The road to healthier teeth
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Cheating with gold dental crowns
First September 2010
Filed in News
Company Oversea Labs, over 900 Danish dentists use, and many have used for decades, has been revealed to dabble with, among other gold content of the crowns. The DR news magazine 21 Sunday - with the help of a dentist who could reveal the suspected fraud.
Cheap dental crowns from China
Crowns from Oversea Labs is primarily manufactured in China, where wages are significantly lower than for example in Denmark. And it is one of the main explanations for the firm's success.
This will now overtandlæge Ulla Pallesen from School of Dentistry at the University to address a sharp criticism of the company's methods.
"I understand maybe a little better why these crowns can be sold so cheaply. If you cheat with the gold, one can easily sell it cheaper. The fact that there is so much less gold in it, I regard as a very serious matter, "says overtandlæge Ulla Pallesen.
However, not only Oversea Labs who get made dental crowns and other tooth replacements in China. It's a business model used by several other Danish suppliers of crowns, bridges and other dental replacements.
Traces of Nickel and Lead in dental crowns
One is that there may have been cheated with the content of gold in dental crowns, but in the study as 21 Sunday was conducted by the independent laboratory Force Technology, also found the remains of both nickel and lead in crowns, drugs which should never be found in tooth crowns. This has led to Medicines Agency will now investigate whether dental crowns pose a health risk to patients.
Overtandlæge concerned about the metals used for dental crowns
"We are concerned that the crowns, besides being cheaply made, can also harm people. If we find out that they do, we will contact the dentists who have purchased crowns and gave them to patients, "says Christian Howard-Jessen.
Also overtandlæge Ulla Pallesen from the University expresses concern over who ever else is put in the tooth crowns.
"So would I be concerned about whether they live up to other agreements on the uncomfortable metal could also be in it," says Ulla Pallesen to 21 Sunday.
Police report on the way
Oversea Labs, also known as PTL, can most likely expect a police report from the Medicines Agency. Is cheated by the amount of gold in your teeth, there's been fraud, and it will certainly 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 extensive that we will take the matter further," says Christian Howard-Jessen, Communications Medicines Agency.
According Oversea Labs had crowns contain 75 percent gold, but 21 Sunday has thus revealed that the gold rate can be as low as 27 percent. None of the 5 tested dental crowns lived up to the stated 75 percent.
"There were 27 to 54 percent of gold in his teeth, so it must be said is a significant deviation from the specification," says head of department at Force Technology, Ole Bundgaard.
Oversea Labs
Company Oversea Labs is a giant in the Danish market for dental crowns and supplies approx. 5,000 dental crowns for dentists in Denmark, in addition to that there is also a net exporter of tooth replacements from the company to Greenland, the Faroe Islands and other countries.
The broadcast Sunday from 21 to 30 august 2010 can be seen here:
http://www.dr.dk/DR1/soendag/Udsendelser/2010/0830104333.htm
