Dental Caries Quiz
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Content updated on Sep 20, 2022
What is dental caries?
Dental caries are permanently damaged areas in the teeth that develop into tiny holes. Common causes include sipping sugary drinks / eating sweets/ snacking often, poor oral hygiene and bacterial accumulation.
Symptoms of dental caries
Areas in the mouth tingle when eating hot or cold foods
Gum bleeding when brushing teeth
Bad breath
Toothache when chewing hard food
Toothache
Questions your doctor may ask to check for dental caries
Your doctor may ask these questions to diagnose dental caries
Do you have spots or boils in the mouth that sting when having cold or hot food?
Do your gums bleed when brushing teeth?
Do you feel that you have bad breath?
Do you have tooth pain when you bite on something hard?
Do you have a toothache?
Treatment for dental caries
Treatment consists of improved dental hygiene, dietary modifications and dental procedures such as fillings, crowns, root canal or even tooth removal in severe cases.
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Diseases related to Dental caries
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Yoshinori Abe, MD (Internal medicine)
Dr. Abe graduated from The University of Tokyo School of Medicine in 2015. He completed his residency at the Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Longevity Medical Center. He co-founded Ubie, Inc. in May 2017, where he currently serves as CEO & product owner at Ubie. Since December 2019, he has been a member of the Special Committee for Activation of Research in Emergency AI of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine. | | Dr. Abe has been elected in the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Healthcare & Science category.
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