What everybody should know about oral mucocele?

Do you notice any swollen spots inside your mouth? Is it appear translucent bluish color and bothersome while doing oral activities? If yes, it might be an oral mucous cyst.

Oral mucous cyst, also known as Mucocele is a harmless, fluid-containing cyst that appears in certain areas inside the oral cavity. It occurs due to various reasons and goes on its own in most cases. However, it necessitates in-office treatments at times.

Is Keto diet bad for your dental health?

The Keto diet is gaining huge popularity among people who want to get in shape because it helps people to shed their weight in time when compared to other popular diets. This diet plan focuses on losing weight by burning fat for energy instead of burning carbohydrates and sugars. Hence the ketogenic dieters have to reduce or even cut carbs from their menu.

Typically, the keto diet contains 75% fat, 20% protein, and carbohydrates just 5%. Several studies show that the low-carb diet has some therapeutic benefits for our bodies. In the meantime, it has some adverse effects also. Your dental health is not an exception. In this article, we have highlighted the positive and negative impacts of keto on oral health.

How do smokeless tobacco products affect your dental health?

“Chewing tobacco is not additive like Cigarettes”, “Smokeless tobaccos are not much worse because we do not inhale it”

Do you believe these things? If Yes, this post is for you, friend. These are the common misconceptions regarding smokeless tobacco. If you don’t smoke cigarettes but consume smokeless tobacco like snuff, snus, dip, gutka, mawa, tobacco gum, or other forms, they also have a wreck on your health. Your dental health is not an exception.

Our dentists have explained chewing tobacco’s havoc on your oral cavity. Keep reading.

If you neglect jaw dislocation now, it will hurt you later

Jaw dislocation or dislocated jaw happens when the lower part of the jaw moved out of its normal position. The lower jaw, also known as Mandible, forms the lower part of our skull and is connected with four muscles namely masseter, temporal, medial pterygoid, and external pterygoid. Each muscle occurs in pairs and each one of them appears on either side of the skull. This joint is termed as Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) that allows jaw bone movement from side to side.

When the joint is mutilated due to facial injuries or accidents, it will either get fractured or dislocated. Sometimes, the dislocated mandible occurs when a person opens his/her mouth too wide. You might read a lot of things about a broken or fractured jaw.

In this article, we have highlighted jaw bone dislocation.

What everybody ought to know about tongue ulcers?

Tongue ulcer also termed as sores on the tongue are open cuts that appear as whitish lesions on the tongue. This is one of the common types of canker sores that appear inside our mouth. It is a common oral problem and subsides on its own but stimulates sharp pain while eating and drinking.

Despite it appears harmless and occurs for an unknown cause, it is linked to various irritants at times. It can be identified with certain symptoms. Keep reading to know more about this.

What causes Tongue ulcer?

The root cause of tongue ulcers is unknown. However, dentists believe it happens as a consequence of viral infections, certain medical conditions, and traumatic conditions. The possible attributes that trigger sores on our tongue include:

• Infectious conditions
• Oral thrush
• Oral Lichen Planus
• Herpes
• Gingivostomatitis

Bodily disorders

If a person has ulcer lesions in various areas of his/her mouth, it may occur due to a disturbance in the victim’s physical health. In simply, too many sores or rashes in the mouth are a sign of an underlying problematic condition. The important ones to mention are:

• Autoimmune diseases
• Crohn’s disease
• Diabetes
• Behcet’s Syndrome
• Inflammatory Bowel disease

Traumatic conditions

Apart from the microbial invasions and bodily disorders, the tongue ulcers emanating from injuries or damages in the mouth that occur due to

• Accidental tongue bites
• Irritations from dental braces or restorative appliances
• Irritations from certain medications
• Oral tissue injuries due to vigorous brushing or flossing

Taking too much spicy foods and consuming hot foods are also responsible for soft tissue injuries that lead to tongue ulcers.

What are the symptoms of tongue ulcers?

The tongue sores caused by mouth ulcer or canker sores are whitish or yellowish lesions with red-colored borders. Mostly, the tongue ulcers are tiny-sized wounds whereas some ulcer tongue lesions are sized between 1 to 3 cm.

As they are painful lesions, the tongue ulcer is accompanied by difficulties in eating along with certain oral hardships as follows:

• Difficulty in swallowing
• Swollen tongue
• Bleeding

In the meantime, a person encounters various hassles in his/her body systems along with mouth ulcers if it happens due to the underlying disorders. Here are some signs:

• Chronic fever
• Body aches
• Diarrhea
• Swollen lymph nodes
• Rashes in the skin

What are the tongue ulcer treatments a dentist provides?

Remember that the tongue sores or ulcer tongue lesions will go on their own in a few days if it occurs due to oral infections. We recommend OTC medications to get relief from the pain and discomforts caused by the tongue sores.

In contrast, if you notice the mouth sores exist for many weeks, consult your dentist. We have noticed that various medical conditions obstruct the ulcer lesions from subsiding. In such circumstances, treating such underlying cause will help you to get rid of the tongue ulcers.

You can also get rid of the painful lesions and quicken the healing process with some natural remedies.

Want to know more about tongue ulcer and DIY remedies to get relief from this problem? Contact our dentists. Our Align Dental Care is ready to help.

What should you do to prevent dry mouth in winter?

The winter season accompanied by cold weather, freezing temperatures, long nights, jet stream winds, and especially drier air has a strong impact on your health. Besides common cold and flu, you would have various oral discomforts like chapped lips, cold sores, sensitivity in teeth during the cold season. Right?

They are not uncommon and go on their own once the bone-chilling weather drops off.  In this article, we are going to discuss one such cold-related dental problem. Winter dry mouth.

Is it astounding that cold weather causes dry mouth? Keep reading to know about it and tips to confront it.

6 possible risks of untreated tooth decay you might not know

Tooth decay is one of the most common dental problems. You have some form of cavities unless you take good care of your teeth. Remember that cavities occur gradually such as losing minerals, weakening the enamel, and eventually a hole will form. It means you can save a decayed tooth if it is treated timely. In contrast, many people neglect cavities due to which they invite serious problems like gum diseases.

You might know cavities penetrate deeper inside a tooth and affect the adjacent teeth. Surprisingly, the toxic microbes in a rotten tooth are linked to various long-term health issues. Researches show that some illnesses have their root from infections in teeth. When the oral microbes in a rotten tooth move to the bloodstream, various deadly diseases will occur.

Such clinical consequences of untreated cavities are explained here.

What causes some people to have big teeth?

The teeth shape and size should be proportional to the jaw size. When they become disproportionate, it would force the teeth to develop smaller or larger than normal. Teeth smaller than the average size are referred as “Microdontia” whereas one tooth or a group of teeth that grows bigger than the standard tooth size is clinically termed as “Macrodontia”.

Despite the altered tooth size appears a benign condition, it might be the oral manifestation of various genetically inherited conditions, hormonal imbalance, etc. In this post, we are going to see about Macrodont teeth which are highly seen in Asians than others.

Why does cold weather hurt your teeth?

Do your feel sensitivity and sharp pain in your teeth during winter days? Don’t worry. You are not alone. Similar to cough, common cold, flu, toothache is also associated with cold weather for few people. Dentists refer this condition as “Winter toothache”. We are going to discuss this here.

What are the possible things behind an itchy mouth?

Do you feel a chronic itching sensation in your mouth? Does the tingling sensation radiate to the throat and ear canal? Don’t worry.  They are the symptoms of itchy mouth that occur due to bacterial or viral infections. Meanwhile, such itchiness in the mouth can be caused by your body’s allergic reactions to foods, medications, and other things you intake. Besides these, various aspects are associated with this problem with which the itchiness also ranges from mild to severe.