Tooth decay is a disease that reveals itself with an unbearable pain. Plaques that are found in your mouth and contain various bacteria, can produce acid from the sugary and floury residues left after your eating. As a result of this, tooth enamel affected from this acid deteriorates and tooth decay begins. When tooth enamel is worn, bacteria and plaque penetrate to the dentin and pulp inside the tooth. At the last stage of dental caries, a severe and painful infection develops in the pulp located in the centre of the tooth.
Although there are many symptoms of decayed teeth, you may not always be able to feel these symptoms. For this reason, it is important that you do not delay your appointments and controls with your dentist in order to enable your dentist to be aware of the decay in your tooth before your tooth is completely damaged. In this way, by detecting it early, we can apply a treatment that will prevent further decay of the teeth. Untreated caries can progress further and affect the deeper layers of the tooth.
Excessive sensitivity to hot and cold, darkening of or brown spots on the teeth, unpleasant taste in your mouth or bad breath, swelling of the gums and pain in the tooth are among the symptoms of tooth decay. Although tooth decay is an important oral health problem mostly seen in adult patients, even the children who have just started to walk can suffer from it. Symptoms seen in children are generally the same as in adult patients. If you think that your child has the symptoms mentioned above or that your child looks uncomfortable with her/his teeth, you should get in touch with your dentist without wasting time.
We talked about how tooth decay occurs. Let's go around the question of ‘What are the causes of tooth decay?' which is often asked by our patients. We must say that there are many factors behind tooth decay rather than a definite and single cause. Within this context, it is very important to be aware of the factors that may cause your teeth to decay in order to protect your oral and dental health. To elaborate on these possibilities, we can first talk about poor oral hygiene. To make sure that plaque is removed, you should brush your teeth regularly at least twice a day and support this cleaning activity by using dental floss and mouthwashes.
In addition to these, it will be beneficial for you to visit your dentist twice a year to have your general oral health checks and professional teeth cleaning. An unbalanced or wrong diet also increases the chances of tooth decay. Intense sugar and carbohydrate consumption is one of the causes of tooth decay. Your diets that contain a lot of sugary products, the sugar left in your mouth after eating feeds the bacteria and as we mentioned before, these bacteria in your mouth mean acid production. The acid produced by these bacteria accelerates tooth decay.
In addition to all of these, lack of fluoride, a mineral that strengthens tooth enamel, tooth cracks or cavities in your mouth and a dry mouth that develops due to low water consumption are some of the causes of tooth decay.
It is entirely up to you to prevent dental caries. First of all, you can reconsider whether you keep a healthy diet or not. You can reduce your carbohydrate consumption and stay away from junk food. In addition, you should brush your teeth with interproximal brushes at least twice a day and use dental floss in order to avoid problems related to dental caries. Because of the fact that food residues are collected in these areas, it is very important to clean the interdental zones of the teeth.
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