Cavities????????????!

well i have had 9 fillings! 2 silver the rest white.. trust me it will not hurt one bit.. there are no shots involved my the way.. they put laughing gas on you.. or they might put this blue stuff that numbs it but No shots.. The drill does not look like a HUGE SAW THING by the way.. it looks like a little needle..= ) its not scary so chill and don't be scared..you wont feel a thing..Health Question & Answer

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my cousin had to get 3 fillings it does not hurt one bit its true they do put a blue this or laughing gas but i don't think they would do laughing because it would b hard to do the cavities but no it does not hurt Cavity.. That's the word no one wants to hear at the dentist's office.. A cavity develops when a tooth decays or breaks down.. A cavity is a hole that can grow bigger and deeper over time.. Cavities are also called dental caries and if you have a cavity, it's important to get it repaired.. But why would your tooth develop a hole.? Blame plaque.. That's a sticky, slimy substance made up mostly of the germs that cause tooth decay.. The bacteria in your mouth make acids and when plaque clings to your teeth, the acids can eat away at the outermost layer of the tooth, called the enamel (say: ih-na-mul)..

If you don't go to the dentist, the acids can continue to make their way through the enamel, and the inside parts of your tooth can begin to decay.. If you've ever had a toothache or heard an adult complain about one, it may have been because there was a cavity that reached all the way inside a tooth, where the nerve endings are.. Ouch!

Your dentist will carefully examine your teeth and may take X-rays.. If your dentist discovers a cavity, he or she can repair it for you by first removing the rotted part of your tooth with a special drill.. The dentist then fills the hole in your tooth with a special material.. The result is called a filling..

Does it hurt.? Sometimes it does, but your dentist can give you an anesthestic.. That's a kind of medicine that will numb the area around the problem tooth while you're getting your new filling..

Though cavities can be repaired, try to avoid them by taking care of your teeth.. Here's how:

Brush your teeth with fluoride toothpaste after every meal or at least twice a day.. Bedtime is an important time to brush..
Brush up and down in a circular motion..
Gently brush your gums as well to keep them healthy..
Floss your teeth once a day to remove plaque and food that's stuck between your teeth..
Limit sweets and sugary drinks, like soda..
See your dentist twice a year for regular checkups.. We hope you'll hear those two wonderful words: "No cavities!"

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Get them filled but not with the silver filling.. Floss your teeth daily and brush at least twice a day to keep cavities at bay.. Make sure your toothpaste is ADA approved.. GO to the dentist twice a year..Health Question & Answer

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Dental caries is a disease which damages the structures of teeth.. Tooth decay or cavities are consequences of caries.. If left untreated, the disease can lead to pain, tooth loss, infection, and, in severe cases, death.. There is a long history of dental caries, with evidence showing the disease was present in the Bronze, Iron, and Medieval ages but also prior to the neolithic period.. The largest increases in the prevalence of caries have been associated with diet changes.. Today, it remains one of the most common diseases throughout the world..

There are numerous ways to classify dental caries.. Although the presentation may differ, the risk factors and development among distinct types of caries remain largely similar.. Initially, it may appear as a small chalky area but eventually develop into a large, brown cavitation.. Though sometimes caries may be seen directly, radiographs are frequently needed to inspect less visible areas of teeth and to judge the extent of destruction..

Tooth decay is caused by certain types of acid-producing bacteria (specifically Lactobacillus species, Streptococcus mutans, and Actinomyces species) which cause damage in the presence of fermentable carbohydrates such as sucrose, fructose, and glucose.. The resulting high levels of acidity from lactic acid in the mouth affect teeth because a tooth's special mineral content causes it to be sensitive to low pH.. Specifically, a tooth (which is primarily mineral in content) is in a constant state of back-and-forth demineralization and remineralization between the tooth and surrounding saliva.. When the pH at the surface of the tooth drops below 5..5, demineralization proceeds faster than remineralization (i..e.. there is a net loss of mineral structure on the tooth's surface).. This results in the ensuing decay.. Depending on the extent of tooth destruction, various treatments can be used to restore teeth to proper form, function, and aesthetics, but there is no known method to regenerate large amounts of tooth structure.. Instead, dental health organizations advocate preventive and prophylactic measures, such as regular oral hygiene and dietary modifications, to avoid dental caries.. Archaeological evidence shows that dental caries is an ancient disease dating far into prehistory.. Skulls dating from a million years ago through the neolithic period show signs of caries, excepting those from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic ages.. The increase of caries during the neolithic period may be attributed to the increase of plant foods containing carbohydrates.. A wooden bow drill available in the neolithic period would have been able to make a hole in a tooth to relieve an abscess in 5? minutes.. The beginning of rice cultivation in South Asia is also believed to have caused an increase in caries..

A Sumerian text from 5000 BC describes a "tooth worm" as the cause of caries.. Evidence of this belief has also been found in India, Egypt, Japan, and China..

Unearthed ancient skulls show evidence of primitive dental work.. In Pakistan, teeth dating from around 5500 BC to 7000 BC show nearly perfect holes from primitive dental drills.. References to caries are found in the writings of Homer and Guy de Chauliac.. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian text from 1550 BC, mentions diseases of teeth.. During the Sargonid dynasty of Assyria during 668 to 626 BC, writings from the king's physician specify the need to extract a tooth due to spreading inflammation.. During the Roman occupation of Europe, wider consumption of cooked foods led to a small increase in caries prevalence.. The Greco-Roman civilization, in addition to the Egyptian, had treatments for pain resulting from caries..

The rate of caries remained low through the Bronze and Iron ages, but sharply increased during the Medieval age.. Periodic increases in caries prevalence had been small in comparison to the 1000 AD increase, when sugar cane became more accessible to the Western world.. Treatment consisted mainly of herbal remedies and charms, but sometimes also included bloodletting.. The barber surgeons of the time provided services that included tooth extractions.. Learning their training from apprenticeships, these health providers were quite successful in ending tooth pain and likely prevented systemic spread of infections in many cases.. Among Roman Catholics, prayers to Saint Apollonia, the patroness of dentistry, were meant to heal pain derived from tooth infection..

There is also evidence of caries increase in North American Indians after contact with colonizing Europeans.. Before colonization, North American Indians subsisted on hunter-gatherer diets, but afterwards there was a greater reliance on maize agriculture, which made these groups more susceptible to caries..

In the medieval Islamic world, Muslim physicians such as al-Gazzar and Avicenna (in The Canon of Medicine) provided the earliest known treatments for caries, though they also believed that it was caused by tooth worms like what the ancients believed.. This was eventually proven false in 1200 by another Muslim dentist named Gaubari, who in his Book of the Elite concerning the unmasking of mysteries and tearing of veils, was the first to reject the idea of caries being caused by tooth worms, and he stated that tooth worms in fact do not even exist.. The theory of the tooth worm was thus no longer accepted in the Islamic medical community from the 13th century onwards..

During the European Age of Enlightenment, the belief that a "tooth worm" caused caries was also no longer accepted in the European medical community.. Pierre Fauchard, known as the father of modern dentistry, was one of the first to reject the idea that worms caused tooth decay and noted that sugar was detrimental to the teeth and gingiva.. In 1850, another sharp increase in the prevalence of caries occurred and is believed to be a result of widespread diet changes.. Prior to this time, cervical caries was the most frequent type of caries, but increased availability of sugar cane, refined flour, bread, and sweetened tea corresponded with a greater number of pit and fissure caries..

In the 1890s, W..D.. Miller conducted a series of studies that led him to propose an explanation for dental caries that was influential for current theories.. He found that bacteria inhabited the mouth and that they produced acids which dissolved tooth structures when in the presence of fermentable carbohydrates.. This explanation is known as the chemoparasitic caries theory.. Miller's contribution, along with the research on plaque by G..V.. Black and J..L.. Williams, served as the foundation for the current explanation of the etiology of caries..

Main article: Fernando E.. Rodriguez Vargas

In 1921, Major Fernando E.. Rodriguez Vargas, DDS of the Army Dental Corps discovered the bacteria which causes dental caries.. According to his investigations, three types of the Lactobacillus species, during the process of fermentation, are the causes of cavities.. In December 1922, he published an original and fundamental work on the specific bacteriology of dental caries.. His findings were published in the December issue of the Military Dental Journal titled "The Specific Study of the Bacteriology of Dental Cavities".. Rodr

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