Two-year-old boy may not like to get brushed teeth
25. november 2009
Filed in Children
Question:
Hi all of you
Our boy of 2 years has never really liked to get brushed teeth and now that he has become more independent it is almost completely impossible without that we feel that we are making attacks on him. We try to sing, read books, exchange ml alm toothbrush and electric but he cries and howls and squirms. Finally, I hold his head ml my legs and get it over with. But I would like to have it to be a good daily hyggestund and not a fight.
Kind regards Pernille
Answer:
Dear Pernille,
I think you approach it in the right way. It would be much worse if your son got holes in my teeth because Of not brushing them. He will eventually give up and accept to get brushed teeth. There are several parents in the same situation as you. It is very frustrating, but hold out because it pays off in the end.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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Very sensitive tooth when I brush your teeth
25. november 2009
Filed in Teeth
Question:
My 3. tooth from the middle of the overmund is very sensitive when I brush your teeth, take the cream or feel with your tongue but not when I chew. Go regularly to the dentist and have had several images, which all show a healthy tooth, so no treatment is offered. Any precedents?
v. h. Carsten
Answer:
Dear Carsten,
It suggests you have sensitive tooth necks. It happens when you use the wrong tandbørsteteknik and the root becomes exposed. The gentlest method is to use small circular movements with your toothbrush against the teeth. Your dentist may want. try to treat your tooth with Fluoride to see if it helps your symptoms.
Question 2:
Hi Joan
Thank you for your reply. Fluorbehandling I've got the former and it works.
Amazes me as to the symptoms only by one tooth.
v. h. Carsten
Answer 2:
Dear Carsten,
Hjørnetanden are often the most exposed to hiv. its location and strong rod.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
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What is general anesthesia?
25. november 2009
Filed in Pain and Anaesthesia
Question:
What is general anesthesia?
Allan
Answer:
Dear Allan,
The word anesthesia has its origin from the Greek word narkosis, which means stunning. The professional word for narcosis, Anesthesia, which is also derived from a Greek word, anaisthesia, which means “no sense”. Anesthesiology is the study of bedøvelsesmidlers use. And doctors who have undergone basic training and rotation, can then specialize in anesthesiology, which is a duration of 4½ years.
There are many kinds of stunning. You can stun the local, delbedøvelse, which is to say that the patient is in consciousness, and only a certain area of the body is numbed. This seeing most at the dentist, when the dentist only stun the part of the mouth.
Another option is so that you call for general anesthesia, or a helbedøvelse, which is to say that the patient is not conscious during the procedure. At a helbedøvelse get the patient injected sleeping pills into a vein, then the patient in the course of a very short time will fall asleep. A helbedøvelse can also be given through a mask for the face, where the patient is given a bedøvegas.
General anesthesia for dental treatment can be given to virtually all patients, excluded patients with some specific chronic ailments such as asthma, smokers lungs, bronchitis, metabolism disorders, heart disease as well as severe obesity.
There are often some risks and side effects of anesthesia and the most common side effects are nausea and vomiting. Therefore, the patient should always be fixed before the anesthesia. The substances you use today has, however, reduced the extent of nausea and vomiting considerably, so that this only happens in rare cases.
In rare cases, deaths associated with anaesthesia, but since the reason will most often be a combination of surgery, anesthesia and the patient's state of health. Statistically speaking, when one does not take into account the patient's health condition or procedure type, the total mortality up to six days after stunning approx. 1 out of 10,000. They do not have other diseases, and should not have made a major surgery, the risk is significantly smaller. The risks of an intervention by the dentist, for example, cannot be compared with the risks of an open heart surgery.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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Big hole after removed visdomstand
25. november 2009
Filed in Mouth
Question:
Hello
I've just been at the dental school in copenhagen where I had removed the lower visdomstand pga. inflammation. I got rid of my stitches in for 4 days ago and have not seen the scale before now where I was very shocked that there was a big hole. It is so deep that I would argue that ease be able to get the leftovers down in the hole. Is this normal? The hole is not just a depression but a great hole, as if the tooth is just removed.
Greetings Mia
Answer:
Dear Mia,
Yes it is completely normal. It will eventually completely disappear, and the gums and bone heals. But there has probably been a lack of communication from your behandlers side of the page, you are not better informed about the progress. But you are always welcome to apply again at dentistry, if there occurs some problems.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
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The anesthetic against dental phobia
21. november 2009
Filed in Choice of dentist
Question:
I suffer from dental phobia
much would hear whether I could get general anesthesia.
Majbrit
Answer:
Dear Majbrit
It is the absolute last resort when you choose to put a patient in the general anesthesia. There are other forms of treatment of dental phobia, blah. hypnosis, acupuncture or premedication with a sedative before each treatment. There are certain dental clinics around the country that offer general anesthesia. Of course it would be best for you in the future to be treated by a private dentist without a general anesthesia, so try and talk with your dentist about what it is you're so afraid of.
A similar question is previously answered here in the letterbox, and there you can see a short list of some dentists who offer general anesthesia.
Read the question: General anesthesia from dental phobia
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
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Should I be on painkillers for a month?
21. October 2009
Filed in Treatment, Pain and Anaesthesia
Question:
Dear dentist,
I now have over a longer period of time to live with dental pain and I fear that it will.
The summer of 2008 I switch dentist due. moving, here I get made a number of holes. Immediately after this is generated I of pain in the back upper molars on one side, and my dentist lubricates my tooth necks and gives me a softer toothbrush. The teeth continue to be sore and when I thought that my problems arose in connection with the new dentist, I choose to switch.
A day hit I sharp pain in my whole one hovedhalvdel, it comes in ”bursts” of a few minutes with regular intervals. I go first to the doctor in attendance, as I think it is the sinuses, then to the vagttandlægen, that gives me painkillers and proposes a root canal at my own dentist. I get started on a root canal a day before I travel away to a 5 month stay in Spain with the message that I need to follow up on it down there. Down there lays a dentist something cleansing (camphor-like) and it can according to him be allowed to sit the next 5 months. In the period I am virtually painless. July 2009 I followed up on rodbehandlingen, it will be cleaned and washed over several times (it hurts in between each time) so she dare not close it. When the pain is reduced, it closes and then I have no problems until about august when it starts to hurt a little sometime in between – now it is taken to and I take ibuprofen f
stores times daily to be able to keep it off. I was at the dentist yesterday and she took a picture and could not see anything. She took my visdomstand (at the side of the rodbehandlede tooth) and gave me a penicillin-cure, which I'm on now and a message to come back in a month. It seems I'm a long time having to be on pain medication.
I would really just like to hear you whether it is normal procedure, and whether you see. what I have written does my dentist take care of it, as she should. I have no chances even to assess.
The pain I can best describe as a kind of ”clamp”, as if there is excess pressure in the tooth (and it pains also in the teeth by the side of, and little in them at the bottom of the same page)
Thank you in advance for answers,
Mvt. Mette
Answer:
Dear Mette,
It is a very boring situation you've ended up in. It is always difficult to assess something, when there have been more dentists involved, since you do not have in-depth knowledge of the entire course of the disease. And it is also hard for me to comment on someone so specifically.
I think your current dentist is doing is right, from the nature of the problem she is facing at the present time. It is not uncommon that patients get told to take painkillers in a period of time in order to see if the pain subsides or disappears altogether. My recommendation is that you follow your dentist's instructions, also mht. to the pain medication. But if you even think that the pain did not subside or is to hold out, should you seek out your dentist again.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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Where can I find a dentist that can give anesthetic treatment?
21. October 2009
Filed in Treatment, Pain and Anaesthesia, Tandplejetilbud, Choice of dentist
Question:
Where can I find a dentist that can give anesthesia treatment, as general anaesthesia does not work on me.
I live in", by Randers.
Can it really be that there might be a three month waiting period? I would like to have made my holes by the year 2010.
Christina
Answer:
Dear Christina,
Your own dentist can refer you to a dentist near you who offers anesthesia. Wait can I not express an opinion on. You must arrange this with the dentist you are being referred to.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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The dentist have sanded too much in a penny
21. October 2009
Filed in Treatment, Complaints
Question:
Hello
I've got a new crown put on a tooth which she ladle! And when the new crown was put in and I was comfortable that was the little too big / tall!! she ladle it a little bit, and it came to fit. But when I then came home and kikket in the mirror I could see that she has sanded too much in the new crown of which is sanded down to something black!!! through the white!!!
( now I understand better that she did not gave me the mirror so I could see it down there!!)
It seemed too bad, what can I ask?
For I must pay much money for it, I believe they talked about 7,318,-
Can I ask for. A new tooth?
And it is not more fragile where she has sanded too much of?
Will be happy for your opinion / help
Sincerely, John
Answer:
Dear John,
From your description of events, I believe that you ought to be eligible for a new crown at the dentist's expense, or at least a discount in the price. But it is something you should talk with your dentist about. If you can't agree on an amicable solution for both parties, you have the opportunity to complain about dental treatment. It is often a long process, and you do not for the dentist's bill in the first place.
Read more about it a complaint about a dental treatment
The crown is not necessarily more fragile, where the dentist have sanded too much of that. So it is perhaps more a matter of how it looks. But of course it depends of how much she has sanded, which I of the reasons can not say anything about it.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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Sensitive tooth after new filling
21. October 2009
Filed in Pain and Anaesthesia, Teeth
Question:
I have 2 weeks ago had a filling in my 5. tooth in right over the mouth (spoken from the center). With the same stunning stopped working, I could feel a significant sensitivity when I chew on it. In addition, I can feel a strong tension in the palate and sometimes also in the tooth. These Symptoms came with the same the anesthesia stopped working and their intensity has not changed in the 2 weeks that have passed since then. Incidentally, may I mention that the tooth is hypersensitive to hot or cold. As well as to the dentist after he had made the filling took time to adjust the filling to my bite. What can mon be the reason ?
Martin
Answer:
Dear Martin,
It may be that the teeth become sensitive after they get a new filling, especially plastic, but if this sensitivity does not disappear, or not to keep out, you must seek out your dentist again.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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What caused swelling in the gums?
16. October 2009
Filed in Mouth, Pain and Anaesthesia
Question:
I've got a crown on -6 and several times seen laterally a swelling in the gum and tried with penecillin and several times klorheksidin pasta but it comes back, it is very sore when I press on the swelling,what can it caused??
Brian
Answer:
Dear Brian,
It suggests that the tooth must rodbehandles. There is most likely an inflammation of the nerve at -6 or maybe one of the neighbouring teeth. That the tooth must rodbehandles, does not mean that you also need to have a new crown on it unless it is necessary. The dentist can rodbehandle through the crown.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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Is the oral mucosa good to reconstruct itself?
14. October 2009
Filed in Mouth
Question:
Hello!
I got rid of a mucosele for about 3 months ago. Since the dentist had suspected that there was still something of mucoselet back I had removed a little more 2 months later, which turned out to be scar tissue that lay back (was quite a few millimeters). Now it's a month ago and it has healed fine but is a notch down in the upper layers of the skin which gives a wrinkle all the way on the outside of the lip. I am of course very sorry.
Therefore, I would ask if it ever loosens up or “grow up” so that the checkmark/rynken disappear? is the oral mucosa usually good to “reconstruct” themselves?
Many thanks for your help!
greetings Anne
Answer:
Dear Anne,
Usually is the oral mucosa good to reconstruct itself, but when there is talk about scar tissue, so this suggests that it will not do it. I think that if you have the genes by this, then you should speak with your dentist. Find out whether he/she can help you or will refer you to a specialist.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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Complaint about teeth whitening
8. October 2009
Filed in Complaints, Cosmetic dentistry
Question:
Hello
I have a couple of days ago got my top 6 front teeth bleached at my dentist. My one incisor is a slightly darker than the other, when it in order to use my dentist's words, is “the sand” after a blow from mælketanden blurted out when I was about. 3 years old. During the whitening was the first for themselves, with a product which was smeared on in 1 – 1½ mm layer thickness and then it should be stirred around with a kind of spatula (made dentist) in 10 min, then got all 6 front teeth the place in 10 min. Right after the treatment I could see a bit of difference, but already after 4 -5 hours, I think that I was back at the starting point, and could/can be no difference, see. My dentist has not yet received payment, then she would switch plastic fillings. But it is not necessary to get switched plastic fillings when I can't see farveforskellen longer. My question is whether it can be right that I need to pay a few thousand kr for no difference or whether I can complaint or the like?
Vh Mette
Answer:
Dear Mette,
I think you should talk with your dentist about what you think. It is hard for me to comment on such a specific question, when I do not know how the starting point was and how it looks today. I do not believe that you will get something out of that complaint, as your dentist immediately not have made a wrong treatment.
Even if you complain about the treatment, you should be aware that you do not let to pay the bill. So immediately I would suggest that you find a solution together with your dentist.
You can read more about complaints against dentists here
Useful contact information in connection with a possibly. complaint you will find here
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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Dear Jane,
It suggests that it is kæbeleddet in the right side that bothers you. Talk to your dentist about it. He can also rule out whether it comes from the teeth or the muscles.
Pain in the jaw once in a while
8. October 2009
Filed in Jaws and Joints, Pain and Anaesthesia
Question:
Hello Dentistry,
Since my last visits to the dentist, I have had pain in my jaw once in a while. It was the worst right after my last visits to the dentist. So I had not so big problems in 2-3 months. But now it starts to get worse again. It varies how long that go from. It might take 1 day or 3 weeks, sometimes I have pain in the jaw. It usually goes away again after 1 days. It is the most in the right side.
If I should have done something about it, should I go to my dentist or my general practitioner doctor?
With kind regards
Jane
Answer:
Dear Jane,
It suggests that it is kæbeleddet in the right side that bothers you. Talk to your dentist about it. He can also rule out whether it comes from the teeth or the muscles.
Hope you can use my answer.
With kind regards
Dentist Joan Olsen
Dentistry.dk™ – the Road to healthier teeth
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