It is not uncommon for a person to be anxious if he or she has a forthcoming oral surgery. Use of anesthesia is what is also responsible for this anxiety. This is in spite of the fact that deaths due to dentistry sedation are very very rare. Death of patients sedated for dentistry is believed to be around 3 in a million every year.
Cold sores, also referred as fever blisters, are a group of small blisters on the lip and around the mouth. The skin around the blisters often turns red due to swelling and soreness. Pain or tingling, called the prodrome, often precedes the blisters by 1-2 days. Cold sores are common. You can’t cure or prevent cold sores, you need to take steps to reduce their frequency and to limit the duration of an occurrence.
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Tooth decay in children is very common because of the high consumption of sugar, which could be in the form of chocolates, soda etc. Apart from this, there are few other causes of tooth decay as well.
It’s a well known fact that fluoride is a good for teeth. The reason behind this is that fluoride aids the tooth remineralization process. Fluoride gets absorbed on to the demineralized surface. Fluoride then in turn attracts other minerals like Calcium, thus speeding up the rate of remineralization. Fluoride is also present in saliva and hence, other sources which can provide Fluoride like using a fluoride rich toothpaste aids in the remineralization process and fights tooth decay.
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You can consider tooth as a three layered structure. Inner most portion, which is the center of the tooth is the presence of nerves. The surface of a tooth is made of enamel and dentin. The bulk of a tooth, both its root and inner aspects, is composed of a calcified tissue called dentin. Dentin is comparatively softer and the hard surface of the tooth is due to presence of enamel. Most of the visible surface portion of a tooth that is visible is covered by enamel. Tooth enamel is the hardest tissue found in the human body and is more than 95% in mineral composition. Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the tooth.