Lacuna Dental

Replacing Missing Teeth

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Alternative method of straightening teeth without braces called Ortho-tain Occlus-o-Guide functional appliance.

Treatment is usually started when the child is between 8 to 12 yrs of age, so that the patient can enjoy the benefit of healthy, good looking teeth at a much earlier age. Orthotain may also be used in the adult dentition to correct crowding with favorable results.

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VENEERS
Veneers are thin shells that are bonded to the front parts of teeth. If most of the tooth remains, veneers can improve the look of the tooth without cutting it down enough to place a crown. Veneers are made of ceramic or resin materials.

Veneers can correct or :
• Cover over discolored teeth
• Lighten yellow teeth
• Repair chipped teeth
• Reinforce cracking teeth
• Lengthen naturally short teeth
• Lengthen worn teeth
• Close gaps between teeth
• Mask deep stains
• Properly contour misshapen teeth

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Has your child experienced cavities?

There are multiple lines of evidence showing the different presentations of lack of vitamin D.

Early childhood caries is now being understood as having foundations in lack of vitamin D during pregnancy.

Vitamin D deficiency passes from mother to unborn child.

Breastmilk from a mother with vitamin D deficiency carries the same deficiency.

Deficiency leads to mineral balances, immune depletion, and then issues like tooth decay and the depletion of bone mass density.

For humans, the main source of vitamin D has been via synthesis in the skin from cholesterol after exposure to UV-B light. Full-body exposure during summer months for 10 to 15 min in an adult with lighter pigmentation will generate between 10000 and 20000 IU of vitamin D3 within 24 h.

Rickets attributable to vitamin D deficiency is known to be a condition that is preventable with adequate nutritional intake of vitamin D. Rickets is an example of extreme vitamin D deficiency, with a peak incidence between 3 and 18 months of age.

A state of deficiency occurs months before rickets is obvious on physical examination, and the deficiency state may also present with irritability, and respiratory infections.

Last year the the INMA-Asturias birth cohort is a prospective cohort study of a total of 494 pregnant women.

A risk of cavities of up to 3x was found in children of vitamin D deficient Mothers.

Another factor could be a lack of cholesterol and saturated fats in our diet. Sunlight is dependent on cholesterol to convert to the vitamin D molecule, during pregnancy, foods rich in these molecules help a baby to receive vitamin D.

Vitamin D is also carried in fat molecules (it’s a fat-soluble vitamin). That means fatty foods carry vitamin D, and its support molecules to be digested and carried into the blood stream to be converted in the liver.

Unborn babies are heavily reliant on these converted rays of sunlight for them to fortify their teeth, bones, and immune cells.

Get ahead, for those planning pregnancy, make sure to check your vitamin D levels.

Did you child suffer from dental decay?

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A guide to different types of teeth.

As a dental clinician I’m worried about how many kids in today’s society still have cavities.

The childhood dentition is delicate, and sensitive to the surrounding environment.

What I’m finding is that parents are often surprised when they hear their child has decay, but once we dig through possible reasons it starts to become clearer.

Let's look at some possible inputs:

• Sicknesses during pregnancy – here’s one that comes up a lot in that a mother will recall either a serious illness or a condition requiring a medication – we know teeth are affected by many medications.

• Tooth enamel that doesn’t form correctly (hypoplasia) – we must be thinking deficiency during pregnancy including medications

• Early sleep habits – sleep is such a hard are for newborn/toddler stages. Toddlers that don't sleep well, don't give their body opportunity to mineralize teeth.

• Extended night feeding – a risk for decay for both breast and bottle feeders.

• Breathing – mouth breathing may increase the risk of cavities by drying out saliva and also contributing to lower quality sleep.

• Swollen adenoids and tonsils – Can affect both sleep and breathing as well as associate with kids who get sick often.

• Vitamin D deficiency – so common today, and very few kids are eating adequate whole-nose-tail animal food diets to provide enough vitamin D purely from food.

• Too much sugar – Yes, every parent knows they shouldn’t, but how much are they really including and sources that provide hidden doses.

• Too much pasta, rice, and cereals – we forget that flour is a simple carbohydrate that is metabolized like sugar.

• Too much fruit – we see it as a health food, but for a small child, multiple pieces of fruit a day is a considerable amount of sugar. In nearly every child I see decay in today, a parent says they ‘eat well’ then follow up with ‘they eat lots of fruit’. Then we are discussing the options for a very large whole in their child’s tooth.

It's important that we take count and try to reverse the risk of caries in the adult dentition.

Did your child experience cavities? What do you think was a big contributor?

Did you know your child’s habits influence their jaw development?

I think it’s important for parents to understand that you can make conscious decisions as to how your child grows and develops.

Many people think crooked teeth are genetic or bad luck, but there are known functional habits that stunt the growth of the jaw.

Both extended pacifier use and thumb sucking demonstrates the way we use our mouth shapes its growth and development.

In dental practice I see patients with open bites in adults quite regularly.

They either think it’s normal and say ‘Oh yes my front teeth don’t meet, it’s hard to bite food’, or want to correct the issue.

When we use root cause and functional diagnoses principles we can see that dental issues must be intervened in earlier, but there is also hope for those who have grown with the issue throughout their life.

Orthodontics and braces to correct this issue act to ‘drag’ the teeth down to close the bite.

Another approach is to correct the cause or causes.

Looking at the photos above you can see a child at ages 2-4 who develop an open bite has high risk of other oral health problems.

These include:
Mouth breathing
Low tongue swallow.

In adults you can have reasonable success to correct these cases by addressing the causes. Training the tongue NOT to go into this place and orthopaedic guards to either prevent or recorrect the underdeveloped upper jaw.

However, treatment like this is always dependent on training and habit formation. So, it’s a lot of time and effort.

In kids you can close these bites in 3 months.

By using an approach that we want to correct oral habits at ages 4-6 instead of waiting until age 12-13.

The other side of the coin is that pacifier and thumb sucking habits hold hard in kids.

We only used a pacifier very sparingly for the first 4 or so months then made sure to remove so that the baby can establish close oral posture.

I’d love to hear your experiences on thumb sucking and pacifier use.

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Happy First Birthday,Baby! Saan ang party?

Kapag lumabas na ang unang ngipin ni Baby, kailangan nang linisin ang ngipin at bibig dalawang beses sa isang araw. Bago matulog si Baby sipilyuhin ang ngipin ng may kaunting FLUORIDE TOOTHPASTE. Gaano ka-kaunti ? Ang toothpaste ay dapat 'sing liit ng butil ng bigas!

Bumisita na dentista sa unang labas ng ngipin, bago ang kanyang UNANG kaawaran.

Turuan na si Baby na uminom mula sa tasa sa kanyang first birthday. Makakatulong ito sa kanyang "sipping skills " ( paghigop) at sa kanyang mga ngipin.

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How much toothpaste ?

For children under age 3: Brush teeth with a smear of fluoridated toothpaste. With this minimum quantity, it is safe without spitting.

For children over age 3: Use a pea-size amount and encourage your child to spit it out after you brush.

When your child can hold a toothbrush, it’s time to start learning how to brush. Let your child watch you brush your own teeth. Children enjoy trying to do what their parents do. You might even want to let your child try brushing your teeth—or a favorite plush toy’s teeth.

Be sure to monitor your young child’s brushing. After your child practices brushing his or her own teeth, finish the job by brushing your child’s teeth. Children need help brushing until their dexterity improves i.e they are old enough to tie their own shoelaces or have an improved hand writing, which is usually around age 7 or 8.

Brushing should last for at least two minutes. You can make it a fun time together. For example, you may want to play a favorite song while brushing or tell jokes with your child before and after
you brush.