Medical articles

Dental sensitivity or sensitive teeth Dental sensitivity can affect one or more teeth and its onset is sudden, the pain can be sharp and it can radiate to the entire tooth. The factors causing pain can be of a physical or chemical nature, and so we shall experience teeth sensitive to cold, hot, sweet or upon touch. The mechanism by which it occurs is simple. For the teeth sensitivity to exist, the stimuli that produce it must have direct contact with the tooth dentine. Dentine is a part of the tooth that normally at the crown level (the part [...]

Why do we have to brush our teeth? Dental brushing is something that should not be missing from our daily routine. The mouth of each person is a septic environment, namely an environment containing microorganisms. These microorganisms are mainly represented by bacteria that feed from sugars from our diet and secrete certain substances harmful to teeth and gums. Teeth are covered with dental enamel at the coronary level (the visible part in the mouth of the tooth). Unfortunately, the enamel is very sensitive to acidic environment, that is, it dissolves into the acidic environment. Bacteria are stuck on it [...]