Contents:
- Medical Video: How To Treat A DARK Front Tooth - EP 01 The Dental Drive
- A glimpse of dead teeth
- Symptoms of dead teeth
- The teeth change color
- Teeth hurt
- What are the causes of dead teeth?
- Tooth decay
- Dental trauma
- How to treat dead teeth?
- Tooth extraction
- Canal canal
- How to prevent dead teeth?
Medical Video: How To Treat A DARK Front Tooth - EP 01 The Dental Drive
Routine check your teeth to the doctor can prevent and detect early the existence of dead teeth. Because ordinary dead teeth cause no pain, it's just a change in the color of the teeth. What are dead teeth and how to treat them? Consider the following review.
A glimpse of dead teeth
Teeth have three layers, namely enamel, dentine, and pulp. In the dental pulp, there are blood vessels and nerves. If the nerves die and the blood vessels do not drain the teeth, the teeth are dead teeth or not vital teeth.
Symptoms of dead teeth
Sometimes, it is difficult to detect dead teeth just by looking at them. Only dentists can diagnose it by conducting routine checks. Moreover, usually patients do not feel tooth pain, pain appears only in a few cases, namely infection.
However, there are two main symptoms that can help identify dead teeth, which is a change in color and pain when an infection occurs.
The teeth change color
If the tooth is dead, there will usually be a change in color such as yellow, gray, or black. This happens because red blood cells in the teeth also die. The discoloration of the teeth will increase from yellow to black if left untreated.
Teeth hurt
Dead teeth can cause varying levels of pain. However, pain does not originate from within the tooth but from very sensitive nerve endings around the outside of the tooth, namely the periodontal membrane.
Bacteria and the remains of nerves that die or pus, formed in the pulpal cavity in the teeth so that it puts pressure on the periodontal membrane. This is what causes pain to appear on dead teeth.
In addition, dead teeth can also be infected. The infection can turn into pus (abscess) and produce other symptoms, for example:
- Tooth discomfort
- Bad odor
- Swollen gums occur
- Tooth decay
What are the causes of dead teeth?
There are two main causes of dead teeth, namely tooth decay and dental trauma.
Tooth decay
Damage that occurs to the teeth can cause tooth decay. Decay occurs starting at the outermost layer of the tooth, but over time the cavity and decay can penetrate into the deeper layers. If the cavity is not treated, it will create a pathway for bacteria to enter the teeth.
Healthy pulp has a response to inflammation that occurs due to bacteria. Pulp and white blood cells will resist infections caused by bacteria. However, this causes pressure in the pulp to increase, then it will cut off the blood supply and eventually kill the pulp due to the absence of blood supply.
Dental trauma
Trauma to the teeth can occur due to sports injuries, falls, or beatings. This can cause the blood vessels to break and the blood supply to the teeth to be severed. As a result, the nerves and living tissue in the pulp will die because they don't get blood supply.
How to treat dead teeth?
Treatment of dead teeth is important. Especially if there is an infection, if it is not treated immediately, the bacteria can grow and move to the root of the tooth and start attacking the jawbone and other teeth. If the dead tooth does not cause pain, it can be diagnosed with the help of X-rays.
Reporting from Medical News Today, there are two treatments that can be done for dead teeth, namely pulling teeth and canal root canals on the teeth. The doctor will advise which treatment is better for the patient's teeth, usually treatment will be chosen according to the condition of the teeth.
Tooth extraction
If the doctor cannot repair the teeth, due to decay, the teeth should usually be removed. This procedure is very simple, relatively economical and painless. The extracted teeth can be replaced with dental implants to replace bone tissue in the missing teeth, or with dentures.
Canal canal
This treatment is usually recommended first if the teeth are still in good condition. This treatment is also known as endodontics, which aims to clear all infections from the teeth and roots of the teeth.
Canal root canal treatment may take a long process, so the patient must go through treatment several times. Dead teeth can still function after treatment because most of the tooth condition is still intact, but the condition is not as strong as healthy teeth. Therefore, these teeth are still at risk of developing fragility.
How to prevent dead teeth?
To prevent the occurrence of dead teeth, what you can do is as follows:
- Gargle first before brushing your teeth.
- Use toothpaste containing flour (a substance that can strengthen teeth)
- Brushing teeth with the right technique. Don't be too hard to hurt the gums.
- Brushing your teeth can be done twice a day, morning and evening after eating.
- Reduce consumption of sweet foods and drinks.
- Avoid opening the packaging that is hard enough with the teeth.
- Routine dental health check up to the doctor.
- Using mouth protection (mouth guard) when exercising to prevent dental trauma.
