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Major Dental Conditions and Natural Solutions (IV)
6. Dental stains
The spots on the teeth may be due to various reasons. Some stains are ‘intrinsic’ (they have their origin inside the tooth) and are primarily caused by some drugs, by an excess of fluoride or damage to the tooth. It can be removed with regular brushing, but require bleaching or place crowns or porcelain veneers to cover them. However, often the spots are ‘external’ and are caused by snuff, coffee, tea, etc..
Infusion of roots: For external use the roots of plants such as the Marshmallow, Licorice, Alfalfa or prepared horseradish infusion and swish applied twice a day
• Sage: teeth whitening naturally a good tip is to rub the teeth with fresh sage leaves.
• Strawberries and apples, eating strawberries, apples or chewing salvia leaves not only provide many vitamins and help cleanse the entire body, but also will whiten teeth gradually.
• Rosemary: rinse the teeth with an infusion of rosemary, 2 times a day, make a difference in a week.
• Lemon: Teeth also can be rubbed with the white skin of a lemon.
• Black Poplar: The infusion of black poplar acts on the teeth with a bleaching effect.
• Aloe Vera: The gel of the aloe plant has many antibacterial properties, cleansing, antiseptic and preventive when chewed.
7. TOOTHACHE
The toothache can result from tooth decay, infection of the gums or bits of food that get stuck between teeth. In case of toothache, it is best that you go to the dentist, but nonetheless, there are natural remedies to relieve toothache:
• garlic-based remedies:
A clove or clove of garlic with a little rock salt should be placed on the affected tooth. Take away the pain and may even cure it.
Another way is to chop a head of garlic and boil for 2 minutes resulted in half a glass of vinegar. Perform this preparation mouthwash.
• Remedies with onion:
Toothache is often alleviated by placing a small piece of onion on the affected tooth or gum.
The latest research indicates that the onion has antibacterial properties. Chewing raw onion for three minutes is sufficient to kill all the germs in the mouth.
• Remedy a clove base
The nail helps decrease infection due to its antiseptic properties.
To ease the pain of a cavity, rub the gums with a cotton swab in clove oil. You can also put ground cloves directly on the tooth or gums affected.
• Remedy for toothache pepper-based:
A little pepper powder mixed with clove oil can be placed in the cavities to relieve toothache.
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Major Dental Conditions and Natural Solutions (III)
3. DAMAGED TISSUE GUM:
We recommend the papaya, a fruit rich in vitamin C, useful to repair tissues, neutralizing toxic substances that destroy the body’s cells and strengthen the defenses. Applies the pureed papaya on the gums and, if possible, give her a gentle massage. This is an ideal way to kill bacteria and repair damaged tissue around the teeth. It also helps the whitening of the teeth. You can chew a few pieces of papaya and keep them in the mouth for several minutes.
4. Bruxism
Bruxism is the involuntary habit nighttime grinding and clenching teeth during sleep, which affects between 10 and 20% of the population. This problem causes the destruction of enamel and dentin.
Stress management, and in some cases, biofeedback can be useful when bruxism is an expression of great emotional stress.
An infusion of Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata L.), Linden (Tilia S) and Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) taken at bedtime will help calm the nerves. To prepare 10 g of each plant put in a pint of water. Boil for 5 minutes and let stand another 3. Can be sweetened with orange blossom honey, which has soothing and relaxing.
5. DECAY
Cavities are derived from the decomposition of food or drink produced by bacteria that normally inhabit the mouth it produces an acid that erodes tooth enamel and corrodes. You feel pain, sometimes extreme, when decomposition affects the nerve.
Among the plants applied in the fight against tooth decay include the chamomile (Matricaria recutita) with rinses help to prevent plaque formation, while acting against acid action of bacteria, which demineralized teeth and leaves an unsightly white pigment. For ease of acquisition, chamomile is much cheaper and is available to any person: the development of a mouthwash since it is simple and is also demonstrated its beneficial action against gingival inflammation caused by microorganisms that can affect the course of some treatments, or the extension of these.
Stevia natural sweetener (Stevioside), with a pleasant licorice flavor used as replacement of sugar helps prevent cavities. Two studies concluded that stevioside is compatible with fluoridation and that significantly inhibit the development of plaque. This sugar cannot be fermented by oral bacteria and reduces the incidence of caries and dental plaque formation.
Propolis oral health increases its principles antiseptics, antibiotics and anti-inflammatory, also stimulates the generation of dentin (tooth enamel) and prevents the formation of cavities and plaque.
Major Dental Conditions and Natural Solutions (II)
2. Bleeding gums:
Approximately 40% of people suffering from swelling and bleeding of the gums to the bite or with the same brush some people think that the problem occurs when there is pain, but that’s the problem acute. When we brush our blood can come out and let it pass as normal, but this may be the main reason that we have in our gum disease and may end with the fall of our teeth.
The diseases most common in people over the gums is usually the accumulation of plaque on the gums, poor hygiene, smoking and gingivitis is the reversible formation of the gums, directly related to poor oral hygiene, the accumulation of food, germs and plaque.
To avoid this hassle and a good oral hygiene (wash your teeth and floss between each one at least once a day) is recommended to give a little massage with your fingers at least twice a week. This massage is done with the index finger in a circular rubbing the gums, reaching the back and sides, it is recommended that this massage is done with a little lemon juice on your finger previously smeared the better. Lemon is an excellent purifying and restorative cleaning tissues, addition of the lemon, used well, helps prevent tooth decay and weakening of the gums, but keep in mind that excessive use can damage the lemon tooth enamel so it is recommended to dilute the juice with a little water.
Calendula is also an herb that actually achieves extraordinary effects on the gums with this condition. It is available in tincture form in health food stores, is applied with a cotton swab or your finger directly in the mouth is held by two or three minutes before getting out of bed and bedtime with very clean teeth .
Another resource is the plant order aloe vera or aloe, which in addition to be appropriate in cases of gingivitis and bleeding gums for their anti-inflammatory and healing properties, it is also preventive of caries to protect teeth from aggressive elements enamel wear for its antacid action. For use, the pulp of the aloe vera is freed from its envelope, which has caustic properties, and chewed to act in conjunction with salivary secretion. Because its flavor is not pleasant, he admits to be added honey, which also has antibacterial properties.
Major Dental Conditions and Natural Solutions (I)
Caring for your teeth Food
It is known that food is crucial to our overall health and therefore, logically, influences the state of our oral health.
Within this there are nutrients whose participation in training and health of teeth and gums is essential. These include calcium, phosphorus, fluoride, vitamin D, vitamin A and the vitamins of group B.
Milk and dairy products are a food group that is an excellent source of most of these elements: calcium, phosphorus, and vitamins A and D and B. Magnesium is a mineral that is also part of the tooth structure and is abundant in nuts. Foods rich in fiber, whole grains, legumes, nuts, fruits and vegetables, are beneficial because they require a major task of chewing and stimulate production of saliva, the mouth’s natural neutralizer.
What not to eat
Foods rich in complex carbohydrates (starch) are causing great damage, and that adhere to teeth and form acids that remain longer in contact with the enamel instead of being removed by saliva. They are easily degraded in the mouth by action of a substance containing saliva (alpha amylase) and bacteria simpler compounds that increase the acidity of the oral cavity, destroying the integrity of the enamel and may affect other components of the tooth.
The acidic juices such as orange, grapefruit and others also contribute to tooth decay, because levels of acidity and high in simple sugars. It is advisable to drink citrus juice mixed and lowered fasting in water to prevent damaging the acidity of lemon tooth enamel.
However, we should not avoid these foods, the important thing is not to take them between meals and not neglect our oral hygiene.
Following is a list of major dental discomfort, than to have, we can begin to treat them naturally, to avoid more serious consequences:
1. Bad food or Haliatosis:
The causes of halitosis may be multiple, from poor oral hygiene to serious diseases such as lung cancer. Most cases of halitosis away to make a proper oral hygiene, brushing teeth, gums and tongue after meals and
Visiting the dentist regularly.
Regarding food, it is important to drink plenty of water, or chewing gum (sugar) in order to get the mouth to generate saliva, since it is responsible for removing oral bacteria.
This also prevents the mouth is dry, another cause of the occurrence of bad breath. They are also very helpful infusion of peppermint, or pennyroyal, licorice and mint leaves to chew.
The yogurt may help fight halitosis, tooth decay and gum disease, as he assured a group of Japanese scientists have found that eating yogurt reduces the levels of hydrogen sulfide, a major cause of bad breath.
First Visit to the Dentist
The dentist is the professional responsible for maintaining health and curing the changes that we have in the mouth and teeth. A positive attitude in the parents and a visit before the onset of dental problems and provide confidence about the child in the dental office.
1. When should be the first dental visit
The first dental visit should be between 1 and 3 years of age.
Parents should not expect to detect any alteration or that the child has pain because on this visit the dentist will not only seek any alteration so early it can detect a problem in the making that can be prevented.
In addition, positive first visit where the child is not practicing any treatment, as this helps start a cordial and confident with my dentistry and general care of your teeth.
Unlike what many parents, the first tooth or teeth, but then are replaced by the final, should be treated when they decay and that the infection can cause changes in the germ of permanent tooth underneath. They can also happen to the space problems of permanent teeth as a premature loss of a tooth means that there is a gap in the gum longer than necessary so that the surrounding teeth can move forward and occupy it, leaving no space for permanent tooth to erupt .
First Visit to the Dentist
From the first visit is advisable to review the child twice a year.
2. Attitude in the dental clinic
At the first visit to the dental clinic parents must accompany the child and be present during it.
In it, the dentist will only child’s clinical examination and medical history which will collect demographic data (name, age, address …), the existence of diseases the child, which in the past, if you are taking any medication, family history of diseases that could have an impact on the mouth, etc..
Parents will also explain the possible need for dental treatment and what will be this.
Normally, when the dentist asks the child to do something, he looks around to their parents for approval and inappropriate attitude all these difficulties the child’s response. Therefore, in subsequent visits, parents should not go to the area of the dental chair so that the dentist can establish a direct relationship with the child without parental mediation, which will facilitate the child’s responses in the dental office.
For the child does not feel abandoned and be quiet is a good strategy that a mother stop a garment bag or a small view of what guarantees that the mother is waiting outside.
However If the baby cries, parents should not worry because it is a normal reaction to the unknown. If the dentist has experience in handling children know how to quell this behavior and make the child do not panic.
Many children cry to demand the presence of parents, so one must not fall into the trap of entering the office and let the professional handle the situation. We know that if our presence is required we will alert the dentist.
If the child behaves well we reward their attitude to reinforce this behavior in successive visits. If it is not recommended as it would increase punish the negative feeling that the child has before the dental visit.
3. The importance of parental attitudes
The attitude and comments from parents before going to the dentist are picked up quickly by children.
So parents have a great responsibility in the image the child to be his first visit to the dentist. The first contact with the dentist is very important to the future attitude of the child and will affect their behavior in successive visits to the dental office.
What never to do
Never threaten the child to take him to the dentist or doctor if they misbehave because these professionals associated with something bad, with a punishment that would not have to be good.
There are parents who after lying and threatening her children with all kinds of atrocities that will make the doctor still surprised that the child break to mourn just see a white coat.
Nor should take the child to see through deception, as thinking it is a bad place when their parents have had to trick you agree to go.
It is advisable
Parents should explain to the child that the dentist will see your mouth and you will see how many teeth you have and talk to them. Should avoid words like pain, injury, etc.. and not make comments like “not going to hurt” that make the child become defensive.
If the child has been a partner it is advisable to reinforce good behavior with praise and rewards. And make positive comments about the dentist, on the query or on other children waiting in the query.
It is good to explain how good it is to have gone to the query so that your teeth are always healthy and used to initiate in dental hygiene.