Marvin Mansky, DDS
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Oral Health Answers
What Is Bruxism?
Source: American Dental Association (ADA)
 "Keep a stiff upper lip" or "get a grip!" That's often the advice we get—and give—on how to cope with stress. If you take it literally, the result could be grinding your teeth or clenching your jaws.
It's called bruxism, and often it happens as we sleep, caused not just by stress and anxiety but by sleep disorders, an abnormal bite or teeth that are missing or crooked. Symptoms include a dull headache or a sore jaw. You could have teeth that are painful or loose from severe grinding. This can lead to fractures in your teeth.
Your dentist can fit you with a mouth guard to protect your teeth during sleep.
If stress is the cause you need to find a way to relax! Physical therapy, muscle relaxants, counseling and even exercise may help reduce tension. Don't make your teeth the brunt of your stress.
Note: In our office we use the NTI, only FDA approved dental device to stop excessive clenching (you can't grind if you don't clench) to prevent tension headaches, decrease or prevent migraine headaches, prevent TMJ face pain and frrequently eliminate neck and shoulder pain. For more informatin visit www.headachehelper.com.
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How are headaches related to dentistry?
Most tension headaches, TMJ head pain, neck pain and a component of migraine headaches are caused by intense and prolonged night time teeth clenching.
Preventing head pain is almost always simple. We make you a small plastic dental device that fits over your front two teeth and eliminates excessive teeth clenching. It is the only FDA approved dental device for preventing clenching-related head and neck pain.
Just imagine what your life would be like if you were free of head pain. It really works.
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How can I eliminate dental anxiety?
Dentally anxious people feel a tense knot in their stomach, chest, neck or head. This calls out to the person TO NOT DO what causes that discomfort. We deal with the tenseness in a number of ways.
1. We use Dr. Mansky’s Simple 5 Minute Anxiety Cure to eliminate tense feeling. It really works!
2. We can us Nitrous Oxide Gas (N20). It was discovered in 1795 and now is used by dentists to eliminate anxiety.
3. We can do drill-less dentistry in some areas without a shot. If you need a shot, the trick is to give it verrrry slowly so it doesn’t spread the gum to fast and therefore won’t hurt. Promise!
4. Still Anxious And it is hard to believe, I recognize that you are heroic for being in a dental office and we offer you medication that both relaxes and helps you forget the experience when you are done.
Lastly, our staff focuses on making your dental experience easy so we ask a lot of questions to help us learn what is important to you about your dental situation and answer all your questions.
To download Marvin Mansky's more detailed eBooklet entitled Achieving Dental Tranquility, please click the link to the left.
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How do dental cavities form?
Mouth bacteria change sugar into a sticky carbohydrate called dental plaque. It accumulates on the surfaces of the teeth, between the teeth, in the grooves of the biting surfaces of the teeth and sometimes on the tongue.
Bacteria inhabit the plaque and form up to 500 different products including acid. The acid causes tooth decay and some of the other products cause gum disease and bad breath.
The surface of the tooth, the enamel, is 97% calcium. Because the acidic plaque rests against the tooth, the acid dissolves the calcium molecules from the tooth surface. When enough calcium dissolves from the tooth surfaces, the surface breaks and forms a hole. That is how cavities form.
Until recently, it was difficult to diagnose small cavities because x-rays are not sensitive enough to show them. Now we have a laser called the Diagnodent which determines if something is an early cavity of if it is a stain. Today we can treat many early cavities without injections or pain.
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What causes bad breath?
Bacteria in your mouth change sugar into sticky dental plaque. Plaque accumulates on the teeth, under the gums, and on the tongue.
Up to 500 different types of bacteria inhabit plaque, some of which form smelly gases. Eliminate bad breath by cleaning your tongue, flossing and brushing effectively, decreasing sugar intake frequency and treating unhealthy gums.
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How does tooth whitening work?
Teeth come in many colors. Some have a yellowish tone, some orange, some brown and some gray. The outside of your teeth, the enamel, is clear. The color that you see show through from the tooth structure under the enamel called the dentin.
To whiten teeth a peroxide-type chemical is applied and it goes through the enamel into the dentin. There are different ways this chemical can be applied. Both the character of your teeth and the whitening technique used determines how long it will take for your teeth to whiten, how white your teeth will get, and how long the whiter color will last.
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