Precautions after tooth extraction
1. Please bite the gauze cotton ball at the tooth extraction site tightly, and take it out gently after 30-60 minutes.
2. You can eat 2 hours after tooth extraction. In recent days, it is advisable to eat soft food, avoid overheating and drinking, and avoid chewing at the tooth extraction site.
3. Within 2 days after tooth extraction, there may be blood streaks in the saliva , which is a normal phenomenon. If there is a lot of bleeding, please refer to the doctor in time.
4. Avoid gargling and brushing your teeth on the day of tooth extraction (you can brush your teeth the next day), and it is not suitable to be picky, touch your tongue and repeatedly suck the wound to prevent wound infection and bleeding. If there are sutures at the extraction site, they will be removed 5 to 7 days after the operation.
5. Swelling, pain, and difficulty in opening mouth often occur after extraction of complex teeth. After anti-inflammatory treatment, it usually improves after 3 to 5 days. If in doubt, please follow up.
Precautions for dental installation after tooth extraction
1. After tooth extraction, usually after 2~3 months, the tooth can be installed after the tooth extraction wound is healed.
2. The choice of tooth loading method:
(1) Dental Implant: The artificial tooth root is implanted into the alveolar bone where the tooth is missing, and then porcelain teeth are made on the upper part to fix the denture, which is closest to the physiological state without taking it out and wearing it.
(2) Porcelain teeth: The healthy teeth before and after the extraction are ground to a smaller size, and then the extracted teeth and the front and rear teeth are repaired in the form of braces. It is also a fixed denture, which does not need to be removed or worn.
(3) Movable dentures: The plastic dentures are fixed on the adjacent teeth with bases and clasps. This method needs to be removed and cleaned after each meal.
Precautions after scaling
1. Within 1 to 2 weeks after tooth cleaning, it is not advisable to eat cold, hot, sour, sweet and other foods. Dental allergies occur, which is a normal phenomenon. It is not suitable to smoke, and it is not suitable to drink dark drinks such as strong tea, coffee, red wine, and cola. .
2. When the calculus is large after long-term tooth cleaning, it is normal to feel that the gap becomes larger after tooth cleaning.
3. Bleeding after brushing teeth is normal on the day after cleaning. If the gums are red and swollen, you can take antibiotics and metronidazole for 3 days.
4. The interval between teeth cleaning and care should be once every six months to one year.
Precautions after filling
1. Within 24 hours after the filling, do not chew hard objects on the side of the filling. Discomfort symptoms are mostly normal reactions and can usually be relieved by themselves.
2. Within a few days to a few weeks after filling the teeth, it is a normal reaction to have mild cold and heat sensitivity or occlusal discomfort, which can usually be relieved by itself.
3. Avoid eating too hot, too cold or hard food after filling the tooth, so as to prevent the pulp from being stimulated and the filling from falling off.
4. If the sensitive symptoms do not improve for a long time or the pain worsens after filling the tooth with deep caries, it is necessary to contact the follow-up clinic in time to continue the treatment with root canal therapy (extracting the tooth nerve).
5. If the carious lesions of the tooth are large or the position of the carious lesions is not good enough to make it difficult to retain the filling, inlays, veneers, full crowns, post crowns, etc. need to be repaired.
6. Please follow the doctor's advice after filling the teeth, and maintain good oral hygiene habits to prevent the formation of new caries.
Precautions after root canal treatment
1. Eat about 2 hours after the anesthesia subsides (the anesthesia subsides 2 to 4 hours, individual differences).
2. During the period from the treatment to the follow-up visit, please do not chew the side of the affected tooth, and brush your teeth gently.
3. Within two or three days after treatment, if there is slight pain or bite discomfort symptoms, it is mostly a normal reaction.
4. After treatment, avoid eating too cold, hot, spicy or sticky and hard food. During the treatment period, ensure rest and sleep, reduce smoking and limit alcohol, and avoid strenuous activities.
5. In case of special circumstances such as severe swelling and pain of the affected tooth and the loss of the sealing medicine, please contact the follow-up clinic in time.
6. During root canal treatment and after treatment, the fracture resistance of the tooth is reduced (especially the cracked tooth), and it is easy to split the tooth and lead to tooth extraction. Please avoid chewing hard objects with the affected teeth, and perform inlay and crown restoration in time according to the doctor's advice.
7. After root canal treatment, the body has a recovery and adaptation process. Some patients will feel uncomfortable in a short period of time. If the situation does not gradually worsen, follow-up can be observed.
8. The success rate of root canal treatment is generally 80% to 95%. It is indeed an incurable tooth, and the tooth must be extracted if necessary.
9. In order to ensure the efficacy of root canal treatment, the entire treatment process must be completed by the first physician. If there are no special circumstances, please follow up with the appointment. If you need to change the appointment, please call at least 1 day in advance.
Precautions after removable denture
1. Pay attention to oral hygiene, brush your teeth after meals, and wash your dentures.
2. If the abutment is found to be loose or the mucosa under the base is red, the denture should be stopped.
3. Regular inspection after restoration of invisible dentures is extremely important. Patients should have regular oral inspections so that dentists can understand the condition of dentures and dentures for early treatment and restoration.
4. For the first two or three days after wearing the dentures, you may not wear them while eating, and put them on to practice eating after you get used to them. If you have symptoms such as compression and pain, you should see a doctor in time, and do not repair it by yourself. Dentures need to be worn in the mouth 2 to 3 hours before seeing a doctor, so that the doctor can find out the exact location and cause of the pain, and correct it accurately.
5. Sometimes it is difficult to put in or take out new dentures. At this time, do not forcefully push or bite with your teeth, and carefully explore the appropriate way to put them on.
6. Take off the denture after meals, wash it with toothpaste and clean water, and then put it on again.
7. Soak the dentures in cold boiled water or a cup of tap water before going to bed, and try not to wear dentures to sleep, otherwise it is easy to cause dental caries in the abutment teeth (the teeth next to the dentures).
8. Dentures should not be worn for a long time, otherwise they will be unusable due to deformation. After wearing the dentures for several years, if loosening or friction pain occurs, you should go to the prosthodontics department to see a doctor. Do not use it forcefully, so as not to damage the adjacent teeth or other oral tissues.
Precautions after fixed denture surgery
1. Because metal porcelain teeth and all-ceramic teeth are made of magnetic powder after sintering, it is usually not possible to chew hard food, and the front teeth are generally not allowed to bite food to avoid porcelain collapse.
2. Since fixed dentures do not need to be removed and worn, daily oral health care is very important. The correct method of brushing teeth and regular tooth cleaning will not affect life expectancy.
3. Once the fixed teeth become loose or the porcelain falls off, you should contact your dentist in time. Any part of the denture that comes loose in the mouth of the fixed denture cannot be glossopharyngeal into your trachea and esophagus without causing a hazard.
4. Some sensitive people may have side effects such as gum bleeding, blackening, and atrophy. Please check immediately.
Precautions after dental implant surgery
1. Smoking should be reduced after artificial dental implants, and it is best to quit smoking, because smoking will increase the incidence of tissue inflammation around dental implants.
2. Insist on brushing your teeth once a day in the morning and evening and rinse your mouth after meals to ensure a clean environment for your mouth. It is especially important to brush your teeth before going to bed, because after dinner, the amount of saliva secretion decreases during sleep, and the oral self-cleaning effect is poor.
3. You should eat less spicy, cold and hard food at ordinary times.
4. Choose a soft, smooth toothbrush with blunt bristles at the end, soak it in hot water to make it softer before use, and then dip it in toothpaste and salt for cleaning. This can not only clean the dirt in the mouth, but also strengthen the health care and maintenance of the implant, and reduce the stimulation and damage to the implant.
5. When brushing your teeth, you should use toothpaste with soft abrasives and warm water. You can choose fluoride toothpaste with finer particles and very small friction.
6. The use of dental floss is very critical, it can effectively clean the interdental spaces, implant parts, etc. You can choose gingival sulcus brushes, single-beam brushes, and interdental brushes with nylon filaments in the center to clean every part of the implant according to your own conditions.
7. Choose the appropriate mouthwash and oral irrigator. You can use fluorine to clean it locally, but it must be neutral fluoride. Acidic fluorine will damage the implant. You can also use toothpicks to clean it.
8. Try to eat less iodine-containing and acid-containing foods to prevent them from corroding the surface of titanium implants.
9. Don't use dental implants to chew hard food continuously, so as to prevent unnecessary trouble caused by metal fatigue.
10. Maintain the tissue around the dental implant every 6 months, use special instruments to remove harmful substances such as dental calculus and plaque that cannot be removed by brushing, prevent inflammation around the implant, and maintain the health of the implant. Long-term cleaning and stability.
Orthodontic matters needing attention
1. Call the appointment number 3 to 5 days before the follow-up visit, and make an appointment with the doctor in charge for the follow-up visit. If you cannot see the doctor on time for some reason, you should contact the doctor in charge in advance to reschedule the appointment. Before the follow-up visit, you need to brush your teeth, register and wait in line.
2. Pay attention to oral hygiene. You must brush your teeth after each meal. Check in the mirror whether the brush is clean, and ensure that there is no food residue on the appliance and teeth. Otherwise, it is easy to cause gum bleeding, gingivitis, periodontitis, tooth decalcification and dental caries. Orthodontics and oral health.
3. Within 3 to 5 days after the appliance is strengthened, the stressed teeth and other tissues will have discomfort such as soreness, swelling, pain, etc., which usually subside on their own in about a week. Do not move or adjust the steel wire on the aligner by yourself during follow-up consultation.
4. After the initial installation of the appliance, the oral mucosa is prone to oral ulcers, which usually disappear within two weeks without special treatment.
5. During the orthodontic period, avoid eating hard and soft sticky foods to prevent the appliance sticking to the teeth from falling off, otherwise the treatment time will be delayed. If the appliance falls off accidentally, it should be followed up in time for re-bonding.
6. If the small steel wire head ligated on the appliance accidentally slips out and sticks to the oral mucosa, you can use small oral instruments to push it to the gap between the teeth; if you cannot solve it by yourself, you need to return to the doctor for treatment.
7. Follow the doctor's advice to carefully wear the appliance and its accessories (such as traction rubber ring, headgear, etc.). If the appliance is damaged or lost for many times, the doctor in charge has the right to terminate the treatment.
Dental Prevention Tips
1. Pay attention to oral hygiene, develop a good habit of brushing your teeth in the morning and evening, and rinsing your mouth after meals.
2. The correct way to brush your teeth is the vertical brushing method. Do not brush horizontally in a "see-saw" manner. The vertical brushing method means that the upper teeth are brushed from top to bottom, and the lower teeth are brushed from bottom to top. Brush until you brush your teeth for about 3 minutes each time.
3. Choose a healthy toothbrush with a small head and soft hair. After using the toothbrush, put the toothbrush head upwards and place it in a ventilated and dry place. Because toothbrushes are prone to bacterial growth, the general toothbrush can be used for up to 6 months, and a new toothbrush should be replaced after illness.
4. Do not eat snacks before going to bed, and brush your teeth after eating sweets.
5. Educate children not to have a partial eclipse, not to chew on one side, not to bite fingers and pencils, and to eat more vegetables and other crude fiber foods. Enhance the chewing function, which is beneficial to the normal development of the dental system and reduce dental diseases.
6. Go to a regular hospital for oral examination regularly, preferably once every 6 months to a year.
Children's Dental Health Guidance
1. What is pit and fissure sealing?
Answer: It does not remove the tooth tissue, but uses harmless materials to coat the pits and grooves of the teeth to protect the teeth from bacteria and metabolites, form an effective protective barrier, and prevent dental caries.
2. How old can a child be for pit and fissure sealing?
A: For different age groups, pit and fissure sealing can be done for different teeth. For children aged 3-4, the deciduous molars are sealed; for children aged 6-9, the first permanent molars (sixth age teeth) are sealed; for children aged 12-15 Child, closed second permanent molars.
3. What are the indications for pit and fissure sealing?
Best time: Teeth are fully erupted and caries has not yet occurred.
Optimum age: deciduous molars are 3~4 years old, first permanent molars are 6~7 years old, second permanent molars are 11~13 years old, the pits and grooves are deep, and can be inserted or stuck into other teeth (including suspicious caries), especially for the same name The tooth is carious or prone to caries.
