Adi's Dentalaya
Myths about Dental treatment
1. Scaling/Cleaning my teeth will make my teeth loose
Scaling is a common dental procedure where a sharp instrument vibrating at a very high frequency (ultra sound scaler) is used to dislodge hard deposits around the teeth. This procedure done once in 6 months or a year in a healthy individual with good to moderate oral hygiene practice will make the teeth more firm than loose.
If the deposits around the teeth are so high that the deposits are itself holding on to the teeth like a splint, if you dislodge the hard deposit then the teeth will be loose but this is not due to the procedure but due to the severe bone loss in the patients with such hard deposits. This turn of events where teeth will be more loose after the procedure is wrongly blamed on the dentist and spreads as a word of mouth. So the patient should be blamed here not the dentist.
So don’t be afraid when you are advised a scaling procedure.
2. Extraction of upper teeth will lead to damage to eyes
NO, In the past when sterilization procedure was not good enough the infection from the tooth socket may have inadvertently transferred from the upper teeth to the eyes and this would havemade patient spread a rumour that procedure itself caused the harm
The training and technology was poor in the past and the procedural errors would have made damages to the eyes which would have caused people to believe removal of upper teeth itself caused the harm.
Now the technology and levels of sterilization with disinfection have improved and such mishaps are reduced, so don’t be afraid when we tell you remove your upper teeth.
I do not need to treat children’s milk teeth or first set of teeth, as new permanent teeth will replace them in the future.
NO, all the dental problems of children need to be addressed for a better permanent teeth which will be placed in the right position.
Children’s’ teeth will start erupting from 6 months upto 2.5 years of the child. The front teeth will start becoming loose from the age of 6-8 years and be replaced by permanent larger teeth. Similarly the back teeth start becoming loose from the age of 9-12 years and then replaced by a permanent teeth. So a Deciduous or milk molar teeth should last from 2.5 years to 12 years almost 10 years. The primary purpose of milk teeth is to maintain the normal space for the permanent teeth which will come to its space. Premature loss of milk teeth will cause a problem for permanent teeth and its position in the mouth, so maintaining a milk teeth health is very important. In case of premature loss meet the dentist for necessary solutions. So treatment of decayed milk teeth at an earlier stage is very important.
4. Myths about Root Canal treatment.
A. Root canal treatment is very painful
No, with the advent of superior local anaesthesia and improvement in technology RCTs are more comfortable and faster
B. We do not require caps/crowns after RCT.
In most of the cases, crowns are necessary following RCT as the tooth structure will be slightly weaker/brittle after RCT. So if crowns are not worn on a RCT treated tooth, chances of fracture are very high.
