Excessive Scaling Or Am I Being Oversensitive? Posted: 12-12-05 11:28am
I have a problem with my teeth that
doesn't have anything to do weith
toothdecay, but it is more a cosmetic
problem. My dentist cleaned my teeth with
a scaler, and told me it was to remove
some tartar/staining on my teeth. It
seems to be a normal treatment, and I
didn't have any objectons to it. However
my teeh seems to be more than just
"polished" like the contours of some of
my teeth have been changed, and some teeth
seem a bit smaller or thinner. My canines
are shorter. I feel really annoyed about
it, I liked my teeth the way they were
before the treatment, and I don't feel a
need to have my teeth recontoured. I also
think my dentist should have informed me
about what kind of treatment I had and if
recontouring was necessary, give a reason
for it. I just come home, brush my teeth
and feel like my teeth look weird. Maybe
i'm being a bit oversensitive, I don't
know. But it feels like a reall problem
for me.
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Carifairy
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Posted: 12-12-05 13:26pm
That is odd.. To have teeth change
becuase of a routine cleaning. I have
never seen this or actually heard of it
honestly.. I would say call your dentist
and tell them what happened, and find out
why. You have a right to be happy with
any medical service you recieve.
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Juliaelle
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Posted: 12-16-05 06:02am
As I understood you just feel yourself
unussual. You haven't still used to your
teeth without tartar. There is
impossible to dantist ir hygienist to
clean your teeth in such a way that they
changed their countures
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DentalHygiene
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Teeth Feel Different After Cleaning Posted: 12-18-05 01:28am
I just read the post about feeling like
the teeth had been changed by a dental
cleaning and I do believe it is a case of
having the calculus (tartar) removed.
Here is how that fits what is being
discribed. All our lives our salivary
minerals try to remineralise are teeth but
for most of use we make more than we need
so it piles up and creates a layer of
build up, since saliva pools during our
upright peiod of the day (and the longest
appose to sleep hours) we build first and
the most on the lower inside starting at
the front and building toward the back and
then at the top back outside and building
forward. This layer hold bacterial
laiden plague at the gumline and the
combined irritation of the bacteria and
the solidifide mass of minerals causes the
gums to recede. Now come the part when
you clean it off. First up to this point
it has been covering and insulating the
now exposed root from the recession and
thinnest enamal at that junction so no air
and cold food and liquid could reach that
surface. Now we removed it and two
things happen right away, first with the
removal of the mass out teeth fee skinny
and like a huge space has been created
between the teeth! And secondly the now
newly exposed root and line of
recessionary space along the gumline is
super sensetive to touch and temperature
(especially cold). So when you work in
the dental business you see and hear about
this complaint quite frequently. The
quick fix is to use toothpaste for
sensetive teeth (make sure it has no
whitening or tarter formula in it at all
since that just makes the problem worse).
Brush gently, avoid acidic foods like oj,
grapefruit, tomamoto juice etc and if you
know you grind your teeth, get a plastic
mouth guard since grinding also aggrevates
sensetive teeth. Now I will agree that
some dentist and dental hygienist do get a
little aggressive in their efforts to
clean off the tartar layer from the teeth
without being very careful at the gumline
and thus can lend to some of the over
sensetivity but it takes many years of
repeated root planing to accually change
the shape of the root (and the enamal is
the hardest thing in the body and can only
have its shaped changes with a rotory
diamond burr or drill bit). So as a
daily practicing dental hygienist for the
past 15 years specialising in senstivity
problems (and having helped hundreds to
find comfort from hyper touch and temp
sensetivity) thats my take on what I have
heard here. My two cents for what it is
worth! :idea: