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all we have ever experienced. Of hoarseness or dysphonia is a disturbance in the vibration of the vocal cords that prevents us from articulating words (though not sound). But what can cause your appearance?
- Some viruses.
- The consumption of snuff and alcohol regularly.
- Breathing in dry or smoke.
- Increase the tone and voice volume continuously.
- Stomach problems like acid reflux that irritates the vocal cords.
- Some medications such as antihistamines, antidepressants or estrogen.
- Changes in temperature.
- Stress, as in this state tend to speak out and sweat more, and anxiety.
- Sleeping fewer hours than necessary or chronic fatigue.
Of course, if it is a chronic hoarseness these causes are different. Tuberculosis, paralysis of one vocal cord or certain hormonal disorders are among them.
The best thing to cure cases of common voice loss and occasional care to rest your voice and hydration. If problems persist for more than fifteen days will be necessary to visit a specialist to help us to deal in an appropriate and effective.
To prevent its occurrence, it is best to warm voice and prepare a few minutes if we plan to give a talk, a recital or something to further prevent possible damage to the vocal cords. It will also be recommended correct posture when performing these exercises in order to allow heat to the abdomen and diaphragm helps support healthy air, avoiding vocal force the entire system.
There is some home remedies that can help treat it, gargling is the most widely used of all but, what we must do to be effective?
- Saltwater.
- Water mixed with lemon juice and honey.
- Infusion of hedge mustard and herbs such as agrimony.
Stains on teeth are a constant threat to your teeth, and can arise from many causes. Fortunately, with proper care, the most stains on teeth can be avoided and resolved. The problem of stained teeth is not a single cause. There are many factors that obscure and ruin your smile.
The most common are: excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, eating chocolates, coffee, soft drinks and consumption take some antibiotics.
Some suggestions:
- When making red wine, coffee or other staining substances try to rinse your teeth as soon as possible. Few things damage the teeth as much as smoking and the solution is to quit.
- Stains on the teeth are usually easily corrected with bleaching. But we must not abuse these products because they can cause tooth problems.
“One of the spots on the teeth that cannot be corrected is the one created by the frequent use of antibiotics such as tetracycline. They change the color of the teeth permanently.
Do not let go much stains on teeth, and talk to your dentist about the most effective way to treat them.
Then share with you a problematic of one of our readers on the gums red and swollen. Subsequently, the experts give us some tips to combat this problem.
I write these lines to see if I can report on dentistry. I have my gums red and swollen and sometimes bleed. From one year to another, so they put me. I have 40 years, I have no cavities, often visited the dentist and I do cleaning every 6 months. I visited several specialists and fail in the diagnosis. What I can do? How good are swish with hydrogen peroxide or worse? Is there a home remedy? I hope a solution soon, since you are on these issues.
Swollen gums involve multiple connotations in this regard:
• First, you should check the “plaque”, which is the local cause of the disease (called gingivitis).
• There are also associated factors, such as the genetic.
• It is also necessary to assess how the patient’s immunity and medical history is. For example, systemic diseases reflected in the gums, such as diabetes, anemia, etc.
• In women, the fact of taking oral contraceptives causes inflammation of gums due to hormonal changes.
It is not correct to think of home remedies, but on making a thorough patient history. This is to inquire about their general health, then enter the phase of specific treatment. The subject specialists, dentists periodontists, will take this into account and treatment is satisfactory.
We have four molars trial, two lower (mandibular molars) and two higher. These teeth are usually considered “annoying” and the extraction of wisdom teeth troubles many patients. Here we see the main doubts about whether it is appropriate to extract wisdom teeth.
4. What are the signs of emerging wisdom teeth?
• Vague and chronic pain that begins gradually and may worsen.
• Pain when chewing gum because it inflames.
• Redness of the area.
• Fever.
• Headache.
• submandibular lymph.
• Halitosis.
5. Do you always have your wisdom teeth removed?
Not necessarily, because you can give 3 scenarios:
• Do not appear, ie that are within the jaw bone and never reach out to the surface. In this case it is necessary to remove them.
• Let go normally and that the person has enough space and not needed surgery.
• That being trapped or only partially leave, necessitating its removal to prevent future problems.
6. What is the treatment of the extraction of wisdom teeth?
• After making a correct diagnosis of the situation, evaluating the corresponding x-rays and blood tests pre-surgery, we decided to extraction, ie extraction of the tooth.
• If infection has radiated is necessary to use specific antibiotics.
The wisdom teeth or third molars, as they are called in the jargon dental, teeth are usually considered “annoying” and extraction of concern too many patients. Here, the most frequent questions about whether it is appropriate to extract wisdom teeth.
1. How many have wisdom teeth?
We have four molars trial, two lower (mandibular molars) and two higher. The third molars are permanent, ie not falling as deciduous teeth, once they are born and remain in the mouth, unless you decide to remove.
2. When they erupt?
Appear in the mouth between 15 and 25, although age is very volatile. Although classification of molar bone begins within 10 years, the crown ends between 15 and 16, and the root end between 18 and 25.
3. Why painful to move?
As are the last teeth to emerge, often, the mouth does not have sufficient space to accommodate them. When that happens, these are retained (trapped by other teeth or by the bone beneath the gum tissue), causing pain and swelling in the area. Generally, a molar eruption painful trial is larger and more noticeable in the lower jaw, because it is a limited space.
4. What are the symptoms that are leaving this tooth?
• Vague and chronic pain that begins gradually and may worsen.
• Pain when chewing gum because it inflames.
• Redness of the area.
• Fever.
• Headache.
• submandibular lymph.
• Halitosis.
Mouth sores or canker sores are painful white spots, which appear singly or in groups, inside the mouth. Is usually the result of a deficient diet, but can also be a warning of other health problems such as anemia, food allergies, dental problems or stress. Canker sores are not contagious and can appear as a single pale or yellow ulcer with a red outer or as groups of these lesions.
Foods That Heal:
Rich in vitamins B: rice, bread and cereals, pasta, milk and dairy products, seafood and nuts, whose deficit exacerbates the problem.
Rich in zinc: oysters, mussels, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, lean meat, milk, cheese, vegetables, yeast, bread and cereals, which are usually deficient patients.
Rich in folate, liver, parsley, watercress, spinach, broccoli, legumes, they improve the immune system.
Chewing ginger, to dissolve in the mouth.
Drinks and teas
Make frequent rinsing with a decoction of bistort, or with an infusion of purple sage. You can also make warm water rinses, with a few drops of tincture of myrrh.
Cold sores usually last from 7 to 10 days, even if you do nothing to end. They sometimes last up to 6 weeks. The following steps can make you feel better:
• Gargle with cool water or eat popsicles, which is of great help if you feel burning in the mouth.
• Avoid hot foods or drinks, salty foods or spicy foods and citrus fruits.
• Take painkillers such as paracetamol.
Oral cancer is a type of cancer that occurs with moderate frequency in comparison with other common cancers. The problem is the lack of importance that people pay to oral disease, so that half of those who suffer from this type of cancer die because they are generally not detected early.
Today, Spain is campaigning to prevent this type of condition.
A meeting was held where Dr. José María Romeo explained that this type of cancer (according to statistics) tend to hit eight of every hundred thousand people, warning agents that are of great influence to the same, as are the alcohol, snuff, etc … who cause approximately ninety percent of cases.
Other actors involved are: lack of hygiene, teeth or dentures that are rubbing against the inside of the mouth or gums, exposure to sunlight without adequate protective measures, sores in the mouth, etc…
The disease can be caused by any of these reasons, the most common being that people are affected males over the age of forty. Among the areas that may appear are the lips, tongue or gums.
As a method of protection against this condition, we can only prevent the consumption of alcohol and snuff, perform a varied and healthy diet, maintain good oral hygiene and visit the dentist regularly so that you do a proper review of the area, as detect cancer early can be vital.
Chewing may seem one of the most immediate reflections of the body, we first introduced as foods in our mouths. However, although their importance has been highlighted by numerous studies, chewing is a gesture we make faster and faster.
The enzymes that are released into our oral cavity are essential to improve digestion and therefore invite you to know some key points about how to chew.
Chewing properly affects our figure as a good digestion, because they are the same enzymes that break down proteins and carbohydrates that our body can absorb them faster and better.
Drugs, one of the main substances that cause this is tetracycline, which is usually provided to people with severe acne pictures. This antibiotic is known to cause severe tooth discoloration.
Also, foods like soy sauce, grapes, curry, coffee, tea, red wine and, of course, cigarettes also cause stains and yellow teeth. Especially foods that are slightly acidic, which allow stains left by food from sticking to teeth.
Methods for whitening teeth: their pros and contra dientes blancos2
One issue that must be considered, regardless of method used to whiten your teeth, that can only be achieved, usually a white relative. It happens that the most likely do not have, from night to morning, bright white teeth, but also would not look so good, it would not be natural. The basic rule in the bleaching of teeth, is that they are not whiter than the whites of their eyes.
1. Toothpastes
The dental bleaching toothpastes work gradually, and usually takes several weeks to show results. The drawback is that they are abrasive, so that over time can weaken truly the tooth enamel and make it look the same, just more yellow. So, you should check the ingredients to see how abrasive is on them. The Calprox is an ingredient that can replace certain mild abrasive and should not cause damage to teeth.
2. Tools
To remove stains, there are tools that are used almost like an eraser to teeth. These tools will remove the stains without damaging the teeth, usually work best when used with a teeth whitening toothpaste, and are especially good to use after eating or drinking anything that can stain.
3. Movies whitening
There is also a method that consists of a film of bleaching agents that is placed on the teeth. It sticks and is virtually invisible. While it works well, it can take weeks to achieve results, and again, the gums should be well protected.
I think it’s something that bothers us when we suffer from bad breath, thinking one suffers every time we open our mouths and we feel unsafe or sometimes not we realize that is the worst.
Bad breath can be fleeting, transient, chronic or permanent. This mainly depends on the origin or cause.If after eating no opportunity to wash your teeth, food debris fall into decay soon and cause bad breath, hence the importance of practicing good dental hygiene.
Another local cause that is easy to find in the oral cavity is an infection. Whether you install them in the gums, tonsils or adenoids, certainly cause bad breath.
Today we give you some homemade recipes that you can try and see if you are, do not always have a mint gum or candy, if so you can remedy with food such as:
If you chew a lemon peel or leaves or parsley or even basil, both are substances that refresh your breath. Eating apples, which are high in fiber, which stimulates saliva production. Read the rest of this entry »