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Teeth Cleaning (Scaling) Questions

Asked for male, 22 years old from Guwahati
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MDS - Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Dentist•Chennai
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Cause of discoloration – smoking, coffee, tea, drugs, aging, staining food (wine, blueberry, etc.) genetics. You may have a yellow bacterial film called “plaque” that occurs naturally in mouth that can build up. If not removed it hardens to form tartar. Advise deep cleaning, polishing, whitening (bleaching) procedures, artificial enamel filling or capping. Advance procedures can be done with laser. Use snowdent tooth paste for whitening until then. Apply snowdent paste on the teeth. Wait for 10 ...more
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Asked for female, 27 years old from Nizamabad
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Tooth bonding with filling if the tooth destroyed otherwise need grafting needed after examination will be decided.
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Dentist•Baddi
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Hello sir
please be advised
yes even scaling can be done after 15 days also
it may be accomplished with curettage and root planing
I suggest you to not to worry.
However for further details you can contact me at my code bj6eie
thanks.
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I have got a hygiene clean and didn’t know she did a scaling and polishing on me. I regret going to that specific dentist and should have probably just used a better recommended mouthwash for the little tarter I had built up. She ruined my front bottom teeth because I had no gaps and the gum she cut it off because it was pointy and attached to my teeth in between but it’s all of a sudden and half the amount after I left the appointment. I’m so shocked and it’s kn two places that she did and one worse than the other. I’m 100 percent sure my gum was not was it receding in anyway. Please if you can explain what happened and what did and if my gum will grow or get better. It was done on monday and it’s been thee days I don’t see an improvement and I feel like it’s getting worse. Please help me and what I can do to fix this too.

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BDS, FAGE, DDC A11838, MIDA,WHO, A.FELLO...read more

Dentist•Ghaziabad
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Always remember
scaling and polishing will never create gaps in the teeth.
Scaling and polishing will never cut the gums.
There is a reason why
1. The instrument that is used to do scaling is a vibrating machine, it vibrates at 120000 rpm i.e speed and some even more. So a vibrating instrument will only vibrate the calculus which you call tartar, and thus the calculus get removed.
2. The instrument that is used to do scaling has no cutting surface, so in no way it can cut gum...more
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Asked for male, 27 years old from Noida
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Dentist•Hyderabad
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If tartar presence is confirmed, it requires professional scaling by a dentist. It cannot be removed with the toothbrush. If you want to prevent tartar formation, make sure your brush reach the place where you see frequent tartar formation. Thus its formation can be prevented.
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Asked for male, 60 years old from Vijayawada
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Dentist•Panchkula
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Hey there, if the white lesions are present in the region of the crowns you got, then it can be due to friction of the crown with the cheek mucosa. Treatment will include removal of tye crowns only if the white lesions cause any pain, peel off or get red patches.
No treatment required at the moment.
It would be great if you send photos of cheek and crowns.
For any further query, kindly use my doctor code gm2c5d.
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Asked for male, 60 years old from Vijayawada
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Dentist•Panchkula
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Hey there, thw white patches have appeared because of the fixed prosthesis. Either it is reaction to the crown material or it is due to constant friction between the prosthesis and your cheek.
This is normal unless it causes pain or discomfort.
The patches will go only after prosthesis removal which is not advisable.
* apply vaseline/glycerine over the local area to keep the region moist.
* apply turmeric paste with glycerine locally over the lesions (massage do not rub)
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Dentist•Guntur
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Hello lybrate-user yah it is definitely help full for receding gums after scaling and root planing you have to definitely follow the instructions given by your dentist so that you can get away from the issue.
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