Dental FAQs

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Because most dental problems do not hurt until they are advanced.

Decay usually causes no pain until it reaches the nerve. Early gum disease is painless. A dentist can spot both years before you would notice them.

Caught early, a cavity is a small filling. Left alone, the same tooth may need a root canal and a crown. A check-up every six months is the cheapest dentistry you will ever have.

It depends entirely on what the examination finds.

Health problems are treated first — decay, gum disease, a failing bite. Only once the mouth is healthy do we discuss anything optional.

Common treatments include fillings, root canal treatment, crowns, gum treatment, dentures, braces and implants. You will be given a written plan setting out what is needed, in what order, and the charges at each stage.

• Make a series of impressions of your jaw and take measurements of how your jaws relate to one another and how much space is between them.
• Create models, wax forms, and/or plastic patterns in the exact shape and position of the denture to be made. You will “try in” this model several times and the denture will be assessed for color, shape, and fit before the final denture is cast.
• Cast a final denture.
• Adjustments will be made as necessary.

• Biofunctional: The most important demand on your denture is to reproduce the functions of your natural teeth during chewing and speaking.
• Prosthetic: BPS promotes the fabrication of quality dentures. Only certified providers are authorized to fabricate and fit you with BPS dentures, after a thorough analysis of your individual situation.
• System: BPS dentures are fabricated of specially coordinated materials. When these materials are used in the correct manner along with the analysis of your personal data the results can be exceptional.

• Comfort and a great fit – Reduced irritation to the gums and ability to eat all kinds of food.
• Aesthetics – A natural look so you can smile, speak and laugh with confidence.
• Strength – Less chance of breakage because of the high quality dense material.
• Easy Maintenance – A very smooth surface ensures less plaque accumulation.
• High-Quality Teeth Sets – Gnathostar, Ivostar and SR Phonares provide a highly life like appearance to the denture along with excellent strength.

Having dentures made is not painful — impressions and fittings are done without anaesthesia.

If teeth need removing first, that is done under local anaesthesia and the site is sore for a few days afterwards.

New dentures often rub in the first week or two. That is normal and is adjusted at a review appointment, so come back rather than putting up with it.

Clean them over a basin of water or a folded towel, so they do not break if dropped.

Brush them daily with a denture brush and soap or denture cleaner — not ordinary toothpaste, which is too abrasive. Rinse after meals.

Leave them out overnight in water or a soaking solution, and still brush your gums, tongue and any remaining teeth twice a day.

Make it routine rather than a battle. Children copy what they see, so brush your own teeth alongside them.

Brush for them until they can do it well themselves, usually around age seven, and supervise after that. Two minutes, twice a day, with a fluoride toothpaste.

Not usually. Implants are placed once jaw growth is complete — around 18 in girls and slightly later in boys.

An implant placed too early does not move as the jaw grows, so it ends up out of position. Until then a temporary replacement is used, and the space is kept open.

Usually two visits.

At the first, the tooth is numbed and shaped, and a scan or impression is taken. A temporary is fitted while the laboratory makes the final one.

At the second, the temporary comes off and the permanent crown, bridge or veneer is checked for fit, bite and shade before it is cemented.

It is a planning tool, not a treatment.

Photographs and a digital scan are used to simulate a proposed result on your own face, so you can see and approve the plan before any work is done.

People whose teeth are healthy but who are unhappy with the shade, shape or spacing.

It is elective treatment. If you have decay, gum disease or a bite problem, those are treated first — cosmetic work placed over an unhealthy mouth does not last.

You see the plan before a tooth is touched, and can ask for changes while changes are still free.

It also makes clear how much natural tooth structure would have to be removed, so you can weigh that up before deciding.

Look for a dentist who examines you before proposing anything, and who is willing to talk you out of treatment you do not need.

Ask what will be irreversible, what the alternatives are, and what happens if you do nothing. A good dentist answers all three plainly and gives you the charges in writing.

Surface staining comes from tea, coffee, red wine, tobacco and paan.

Deeper discolouration has other causes: natural darkening with age, a knock to the tooth, decay, an old filling, or a tooth that has had root canal treatment.

Surface stains polish off. Deeper ones need whitening or, occasionally, a crown or veneer.

Almost always plaque left along the gum line. The gums become inflamed and bleed when brushed.

Bleeding is a warning sign, not something to brush more gently around. At this stage it is fully reversible with a professional clean and better cleaning at home.

Left untreated it can progress to gum disease, which destroys the bone holding the teeth. Get it checked.