Prophyflex Treatment
After the scaling we polish the tooth with a prophyflex device – a polish powder in combination with high water pressure provided by this appliance will be blown on the tooth. This bicarbonate powder, water and air mixture removes various accretions and discolorations from the tooth. (This method resembles the common sand blasting in technics.) This method bears a hand to the removal of discolorations from interdental spaces and fissures that are hard to reach.
Polish
- this is done with a special round brush and a rubber polisher with which an abrasive polishing paste gives the tooth mirror finish; besides the edges of the restorations are optimally polished, without damaging neither the tooth nor the teethridge.
Important are the single steps made, concerning the technique of dental hygiene of the patients – techniques of dental hygiene or the proper usage of dental silk – we show it to you, exercise with you, control the result of it.
How does a Prophyflex device work?
The principle resembles sand blasting. A fine bicarbonate powder mixed with water will be blasted on th tooth with high pressure. Therewith all accretions are removed and the tooth is being polished, so that in future it will not keep the germs grounded so easily.
Prevent for youself
Choose the right tooth paste, for not letting dental calculus emerge in the first place. Anti-calculus-substances in tooth pastes like pyrophosphate, phosphonates or zinccitrate can at least decrease the regeneration of dental calculus on plane spots, possibly also on other spots where the saliva gets. Its effect, however, is not definitely proved.
You also can block the generation of plaque with mouth wash dilutions. This way the agent chlorhexidinedigluconate kills a lot of surplus germs in the oral cavity. Regular tooth brushing, however, is not replaced by such washing. For the dilutions must not be used constantly , inter alia, because the microbes slowly get resistant against the substances. Furthermore, the teeth, restorations or even the tongue can colour brownish. Higher dosed agents (0,1 to 0,2 percent) possibly lead in the long run to a changed taste sensation. More recommentable are mouth washes with lower concentration (0,06 percent). You can also use this own over a longer period of time.
Good agents against plaque can also be mouth washes and tooth gels that contain amine- and tin fluoride. Apparently these agents act as germ-killing as chlorhexidinedigluconate; they could have distinctly less undesirable side-effects. Both is not definitely proved.
For most patients it is sufficient when they have semiyearly, within the bounds of the normal check study, pain-free removed their dental calculus, plaque and discolorations from us. These are not only an aesthetic problems, which are correlated with displeasing smell, but these can also cause grave damages like gingvival inflammations and paradontosis that can later lead to tooth loss. Each dental treatment should start with scaling and the cleansing of dental plaque which does not only support the diagnosis, but a correct dental treatment is also only possible on clean teeth.
Nowadays, each day we are asked for a beamingly white, clean smile, of cause without bad breath!
