Sports dentistry is a discipline that studies the influence of each sport on oral health. This is, through oral care, enables a safer and more pleasant practice of sports activity. This eliminates the systemic repercussions caused by oral bacteria. Many of us ignore the mouth and ignore...
Dental aesthetics is not only formed by the teeth themselves. There are many factors that intervene in the aesthetic harmony resulting in a pleasant appearance in the face of society. One of the main factors that interact and that are revealed when evaluating dental aesthetics, is...
Many times we go to the dentist and they tell us that we have to do a root canal, but what exactly is "an endodontics"? Many people commonly call it "killing the nerve", but what we really do is to remove the pulp, clean and hermetically...
It is known as onychophagia, to the habit of biting the nails. This develops during childhood in most cases, affecting 45% of the child population. It can be maintained until adulthood, being the population that maintains this habit by 10%. It is a habit of a...
On occasion we have met someone who lacks a tooth and this lack has not been caused by an early exfoliation or exodontia. This absence of dental pieces is naturally known as dental agenesis. The dentition of an adult person is composed of 32 pieces while...
Surely many of you are having visits of Mouse Perez at home as a result of the replacement of the milk dentition of the child by the definitive adult. To clarify your doubts about this process we give you some guidelines. At SJD Dentistas we...
Many people suffer from epilepsy, as well as the whole set of problems, in this case oral, resulting from this disease, by the pharmacological therapies used to combat it. This condition means that patients with epilepsy are patients with special conditions that require treatment and a...
Oral lichen planus is a non-communicable inflammatory disease that affects the intra oral membranes, the most common areas being the internal face of the cheeks, palate, tongue or inner face of the lips. Oral lichen planus presents a habitual appearance of whitish spots in a reticular...
A dental abscess, or phlegmon, is the cluster of pus around a particular tooth. It can affect bone, dental or soft tissue structures close to the affected tooth. This occurs as a result of an untreated cariogenic infection, a fissure or dental fracture, a trauma or...
Gingivitis is a reversible pathology that causes inflammation of the gums and hemorrhage, but no loss of support tissue of the tooth. It appears due to an accumulation of dentobacterial plaque (tartar) in the gum line. Why is it produced? The main and most frequent cause is...
