i have been advised by the dentist to get my teeth cleaned but i have heard that it makes the gums go weak and makes the enamel fade away.is this true? please help...thanks in advance!
2007-05-22 18:18:27 · 7 answers · asked by amluamul 1 in Health ➔ Dental
hey, why are think so. how can cleaning of tooth harmful for teeth? so go to dentist get healthy, strong & bright teeth.
2007-05-22 21:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by anurag 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a dentist. Getting your teeth cleaned by a dentist will NOT harm your enamel! What dentists do is that they get rid of the plaque and the tartar (technical term is "calculus") around your teeth and underneath the gum where you can't reach by yourself. A deep cleaning will usually require local anesthetic. However, it is possible that after cleaning your teeth might become loose. Why? Your teeth might be so caked on by the hard calculus that they are basically "held in place" by the calculus. There might be severe bone loss around the teeth so nothing is holding it inside the socket, but the calculus is holding it in place so you don't notice that it is loose already. Once the gunk is cleaned away, the tooth can become loose, but that doesn't mean that the dentist caused it! The tooth was already loose in the first place. I hope this makes sense.
2007-05-23 01:27:20 · answer #2 · answered by ToothDoc 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no this is not true at all...in some cases though, when you haven't had your teeth cleaned in say five to ten years there will be so much build-up in between them and all over them it hardens to calculus and when the hygienist cleans this off the teeth may become loose but they will return back to normal within a few days, and this is not dramatically loose but just a bit.
2007-05-23 01:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by shane r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HELLO,
WHAT YOU HEARD IS A MYTH.
CLEANING THE TEETH WILL NOT HURT THE ENAMEL OR GUMS. IF IT DID THE WORD WOULD SPREAD AND NOBODY WOULD HAVE THEIR TEETH CLEANED.
2007-05-23 01:25:18 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. Albert, DDS, (USA) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no way.it helps a lot,get your teeth cleaned by a dentist.
2007-05-23 03:20:03 · answer #5 · answered by vivek k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. All it does is remove plaque. Plaque will do more damage to your gums than any cleaning might.
2007-05-23 01:26:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you are wrong don't waste time
do this exercise after 6 months gap
2007-05-23 01:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by rakesh s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋