Professional oral hygiene – this is one of the key stages in the prevention of dental diseases. It should be conducted by both children, adolescents, and adults.
Plaque on the teeth, detected using a plaque indicator
High-quality daily oral care is a contribution to the health of your child’s teeth and gums. However, even the most scrupulous approach does not allow removing 100% of the plaque that accumulates on the teeth.
That is why professional oral hygiene is necessary. During the procedure, the dentist thoroughly cleans all even hard-to-reach areas. Also, the doctor draws the attention of parents to places where the child does not finish cleaning during home care.
A visit for professional cleaning once every six months is a component of a preventive examination. The doctor examines the teeth – if caries is just beginning to appear somewhere, it is immediately treated before it grows into a large cavity or pulpitis.
After professional hygiene, children and adolescents note:
All this helps the child feel more confident, smiling with his whole mouth.
Doctors recommend using a professional cleaning as an element of a child’s adaptation to dentistry. Accordingly, it is necessary to introduce the child to this procedure from the age when he is ready to consciously interact with the doctor. It can be as early as 3-4 years old.
The advantage of brushing teeth as an adaptation is that:
If it was not possible to clean the teeth completely at the first appointment, do not despair: 1-3 adaptation visits to a children’s dentist are the norm.
Professional dental cleanings are performed according to international protocols. When choosing tools, the doctor focuses on the quantity and quality of dental deposits.
Dental deposits can be soft (plaque) or hard (tartar). They must be removed during cleaning. Soft dental plaque is most common in children, and stones can already form in teenagers.
The hygienist uses the following tools in his work.
This is a tool for removing dental plaque, soft dental deposits, which supplies a mixture of special powder and air under pressure. Professional hygiene protocols provide for Air Flow cleaning at the very beginning of the procedure.
The advantages of AirFlow are that it is non-contact (the tool does not touch the enamel of the teeth), removes pigmented plaque (the enamel brightens after cleaning), and efficiently cleans the areas between braces in orthodontic patients.
NikaDent dentistry uses glycine-based AirFlow powders. Due to the small size of the particles, the product gently cleans the enamel without causing bleeding gums, sensitivity or painful sensations.
Hard dental deposits (tartar) are rarely removed with AirFlow. Therefore, an ultrasonic scaler comes to the rescue. This device consists of a control unit, a container with water and a working tip with nozzles. Metal nozzles of various shapes allow you to clean even hard-to-reach areas.
With the help of an ultrasonic scaler, stones can be removed both above and below the gums. By influencing the stone with ultrasound, the doctor tries to “crack” it.
Proprietary treatments may include removing plaque with curettes. These are hand tools designed to remove stones from periodontal pockets.
In the set, the doctor has 7-9 or more curettes, each of which is designed to clean one or another surface of different groups of teeth.
Hygiene with Grace curettes (or other systems) requires knowledge and manual skills from the doctor.
Since the structure of the enamel could already begin to change under plaque and stones, the surface will not be perfectly smooth. Such enamel is an ideal target for bacteria and food residues.
Therefore, at the end of the procedure, the doctor necessarily polishes the surface of the teeth. Polishers (special tools made of rubber), polishing pastes with pleasant flavors are used for this.
The final chord of professional hygiene is teaching how to properly brush your teeth. The doctor selects hygiene products, shows how to care for the oral cavity.
After professional hygiene, the dentist can apply fluoride varnish to the teeth. Due to this tool, tooth enamel is strengthened, resistance to caries increases. The procedure is called dental fluoridation or remineralization therapy.
The mechanism of action of fluorovarnish is based on the fact that the mineral components in its composition (fluorides) penetrate deep into the enamel, strengthening it. Further on the way, fluorides find dentin, another hard tissue of the teeth.
Dentin consists of tubules, through which the infection “happily” penetrates inside the tooth. It is these tubules that are reliably blocked during tooth fluoridation.
In NOWA children’s dentistry, fluorovarnishes based on milk protein casein are used. The drug contains 5% sodium fluoride. Varnish stays on the teeth for a long time, starts working almost immediately after application. Therefore, you can not worry about the fact that the child will partially eat it or clean it during the evening hygiene.Children’s fluoride varnishes are produced with strawberry and mint flavors.It is recommended to repeat the fluoridation of children’s teeth twice a year (after preventive cleaning visits).
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