Thursday, June 9, 2011

Home is Favorable for Dental Cleaning

Dental cleaning is the process where dentists remove certain deposits from teeth using their professional equipments and regularly practiced method. It is the process that needs to be done to every person to avoid or cure tooth or mouth problems. Prophylaxis, a Greek word that means to prevent beforehand, is the professional cleaning of teeth. In dental cleaning professional dentist use certain equipments to clean the teeth and make it shine brightly. Many people are scared of dental cleaning because they think that it pains a lot while cleaning with equipments. But, it must be known by everyone that it does not pain much to clean teeth.
The professional equipments that clean the teeth are as follows:
  • Ultrasonic instrument: It is the instrument that has curved and rounded tips and is kept in motion all around the teeth. A cooling mist of water is sprayed by it to wash the debris. It makes highly pitched whistling tools and tickling vibration when used.
  • Find Hand tools: These are used to remove smaller deposits and tooth surface are observed to be smooth.
  • Polishing: A slow speed handling with a soft rubber cup type of instrument is used to polish the teeth. Prophylaxis is spun around the teeth to make it shine.
  • Fluoride: Fluoride foam or gel of different flavors like strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, etc is placed over the teeth for 30 seconds or more and then is advised to spit.
Fluoride is the final part of dental cleaning and after these process teeth shines brightly. Dental cleaning can be done at home as the equipments can be carried from one place to another easily. When it is done at home every member can be treated with this process and look their teeth shining

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