holes in your teeth?

Treatments if you have holes in your teeth?

Dental caries is the most common disease in oral cavity. It is an irreversible damage to tooth. Dental caries is due to food particles getting accumulated in particular portion of tooth, especially in occlusal and interproximal area. The main cause of this dental caries is due to harmful bacterias.

Bacterias itself cannot produce dental caries, it requires a host and foods including carbohydrates, sugar etc. These bacteria will stay in a tooth for a longer period of time and destroy the crown portion of tooth and if not treated in the starting stage it will go deep into the crown portion and reaches Dentin and finally pulp of a tooth.

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Treatments include:

Filling or restoration

This is the first and foremost treatments done for removal of caries. A dentist will drill the affected part of a tooth and clean it and restores with different filling materials depending upon the areas affected.

Composite restoration is the popular tooth coloured restoration in practice.

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Crown

Crown placement is another Choice for treating dental caries. Most commonly in front tooth or interproximal areas which cannot be restored with filling materials or if large areas are affected.

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Root canal treatment

This is another method of treating deep dental caries which involves pulp. Here a dentist will remove all the decayed parts of tooth including infected pulp, clean it, shape it using various steps and instruments and then fills with an artificial material called Gutta percha. Once the treatment has been done the patient is asked to come for review after 4weeks . After 4 weeks dentist will check the treated tooth and if it is in good condition then dentist will recommend for crown for that tooth.