Tooth Decay - Origin and Consequences

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Some foods are rich in acidic (fruit juice, sodas) and contribute to weaken the tooth enamel by dematerializing. Other rich in sugars (candy, chips, and crackers) are used by bacteria to assimilate, grow (up panel), and then convert them into acid waste is responsible for the demineralization of tooth enamel.

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development of caries requires time and involves several steps. Four developmental stages of decomposition:

1 The destruction of the enamel

acid bacteria from food, or start with a dematerialized enamel. This process is completely painless and can be viewed by a dentist during a dental examination (clinical and radiological). At that time decay is still reversible, because the ions present in saliva (see scale and scaling) can mineralize the enamel surface. This is the regular repetition of stress (food, plates), which will enable the process of demineralization and thus continue the growth of tissue beneath the enamel of the teeth.

2 Reached the dentin

This is when a tooth becomes sensitive to hot, cold, sweet and sour: one speaks of the pain caused. Dentin is less mineralized than enamel, which is faster demineralization, and thus decay will spread and grow faster in the tooth pulp.

3 Invasion of the pulp

This is the stage of "toothache" pain is violent, spontaneous and / or caused by heat, cold. If treatment is not carried out the pulp will die gradually become necrotic.Bol stops after a while can give the impression that all is well.

4 Invasion of surrounding tissue

Bacteria are present throughout the pulp and will move to the top of the root and get through the apical foramen (see the anatomy of the tooth) and surrounding tissues (gums, bone and ligaments). Be formed in the longer term abscess and / or cyst is very painful at the end of the root. This infection can spread, or adjacent tissues and to give a "classy" (buffer) or the whole body through the blood vessels and is responsible for the infection of other body parts (eyes, lungs, heart, kidney and joints).