Therapeutic dentistry

Let's take a closer look at some of the most common diseases and methods of their treatment:

• Caries (tooth decay) is one of the most common diseases. About 95% of the world's population has carious lesions of the teeth. Caries is a pathological process that is accompanied by demineralization (loss of minerals and salts) of tooth enamel, resulting in the gradual destruction of the tooth. Tooth decay is often painless, so patients do not attach significance to it and seek help when a cavity was already formed inside a tooth.

Treatment: elimination of infected hard tissues with subsequent filling of the cavity with various materials (composites, cements, etc.). 

• Pulpitis is an inflammatory process of the vascular-nervous bundle of the tooth (pulp). This disease develops with untimely treatment of tooth decay, when the infection enters the pulp from the carious cavity. The disease is accompanied by sharp, dull, aching pain, often unbearable, bearing a throbbing character.

Treatment: elimination of the inflammatory process due to the origin of the root canals of instruments with subsequent antiseptic products and fillings. 

• Periodontitis is an inflammatory process of the periodontium (the ligament that holds a tooth in the bone). The cause of the disease is often untimely or poor treatment of pulpitis, when the infection penetrates from the root canal beyond the apex of the root to the bone. Periodontitis can be acute or chronic. The first one is accompanied by constant pain when pressing on the tooth, tooth mobility, sometimes a rise in body temperature. Chronic periodontitis is often painless, but often leads to serious complications, such as periostitis, abscesses and others.

 Treatment: elimination of the inflammatory process in the root canal, antiseptic treatment and filling of the root canals. This is often enough, but the duration of treatment depends on the degree of inflammation.