Correct oral care during pregnancy

Correct oral care during pregnancy

 Correct oral care during pregnancy During pregnancy the female endocrine system undergoes change, which manifests in a number of symptoms in the oral cavity. Progesterone and estrogen may cause the gums to swell and pregnancy gingivitis may develop (mostly in...
Dental foci

Dental foci

 Dental foci Many of us will have encountered the phenomenon that our doctor is unable to establish the cause of our disease, an existing disease is reluctant to resolve, or following an interim period of healing our complaints reappear, or the treating...
Dental phobia

Dental phobia

 Dental phobia Fear of the dentist is widely known as dental phobia but several other designations exist, such as odontophobia, or dental fear, dental anxiety, dentist phobia, etc. Dental phobia is not all as rare as one would imagine: it afflicts over 5 % of...
Permanent teeth eruption

Permanent teeth eruption

 Permanent teeth eruption Permanent teeth eruption is the period during which the 20 deciduous teeth are superseded by 32 permanent teeth. The process begins at the age of 6 when, unnoticed even by the parents themselves, the first permanent molars (first...
Teething (10)

Teething (10)

 Teething Teething. As parents we are filled with trepidation on hearing the word. Everybody has heard horror stories from friends relating this period. Teething can be very diverse, ranging from sleepless nights to exclamations like “Gosh, she’s got a tooth...