Although the answer to this question may seem obvious to any dentist, it is not always easy for a patient to understand. It also works both ways. A dentist maybe absolutely 100-percent sure that your tooth needs to be extracted but the patient may feel that the tooth could and should be preserved. At the […]
There are various very simple techniques that a dentist must use when they are confronted with a nervous or anxious patient. These techniques can also be used to treat routine regular patients who are not nervous but also patients at the other end of the nervous scale to the point where they are called phobic […]
Not all fracture lines or fractures need to be actively treated by a dentist. There are a number of important factors to consider which will determine whether a fracture in a tooth needs to be actually treated by a dentist. 1) The age of a patient is important to consider. It is uncommon to find significant […]
This patient came in to see me C/O pain in her jaw especially on the left side. It was worse when she woke up. She had been to the access centre where she had antibiotics and was advised to have her wisdom teeth out. After 2 weeks she had to go back to the access […]
Unfortunately, there is no one method which a dentist can use to decide whether to treat, extract or keep under observation.. Dentists therefore use variation of different factors which they then use in combination to decide whether a tooth is so compromised that it should be extracted. It goes without saying that sometimes a tooth […]
It is extremely common for a dentist to have a patient in the dental chair who is extremely apprehensive of having alginate impressions taken of their teeth/mouth and they also have an excessive gag reflex. When a dentist is treating these patients, there is no one magic technique that will enable you to take an […]
How does a dentist takes alginate impressions for a patient with an excessive gag reflex? Here are a number of techniques which a dentist can use to take impressions for a patient with an excessive gag reflex. The more relaxed and calm a patient is, the less the excessive gag reflex will be activated. There […]
Immediately when she walked in, I sensed that she was very apprehensive. Althoughshe had seen 2 previous dentists recently, she felt that they had not “actively” listened to her concerns. She was embarrassed about the gap in the front and the 2 front teeth had started to overlap each other. In addition, there was pain […]
A sinus lift for dental implants is not a minor procedure and thought needs to be given before you give consent to go ahead with the operation. This is because many complications can and do arise from this procedure. The most common is the perforation o the Schneiderian membrane which lines the floor of the […]
Dental anxiety is so common that you can actually say that it is the norm amongst patients to visit the dentist. 50% of patients are so nervous that they avoid going to the dentist all together and will only be forced to attend when they are in severe pain. Anxiety can be defined as an […]
Dr Muzzafar Zaman 