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  • 01-09-2011 9:50pm
    #1
    nousernames
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭


    So I went to the Dentist for a check up today. My teeth were fine I had no pain or anything. He said they were fine too and that I needed nothing done. He said he would just clean them a bit, not a full proper cleaning, just getting rid of plaque.
    So he took out this thing with a point on it and started scraping all my teeth 'cleaning them', on top of all my teeth and down between where two teeth meet. Also I think it was an electric 'scraper' (don't know name of the instrument)
    I went home and my teeth have never been as sore. It feels like one of them are cracked- I can feel it, and I have really bad pain in two more, maybe not a pain so much but more that they dont feel right but it definately feels like something is wrong.
    Does anyone know what damage he might have done or even if it was possible to damage them with what he was using?
    Any help would be very much appreciated.


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  • #2
    nousernames
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭nousernames


    Anyone?


  • #3
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    Hey OP,
    Hope things are settling down now by now.

    The instrument he used was probably an ultrasonic scaler. It vibrates at very high frequencies and removes plaque with the resulting vibration and sound waves, it needs a water spray to keep it cool and to flush the debris away....
    Used correctly on sound teeth it should cause no damage. It may cause some transient sensitivity in some people as by removing an "insulating layer" of plaque from the root- it may expose some dentine to the hot/cold environment of the mouth.... This settles as the root dentine seals itself again...

    The gums can also be a little sore from it's use...

    If your tooth had decay, defective fillings or fracture lines already present and the scaler was being operated by a monkey- some damage may be done to tooth structure but this is very unlikely...

    Give it a few days...

    OS


  • #4
    nousernames
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭nousernames


    Oral Surgeon wrote: »
    Hey OP,
    Hope things are settling down now by now.

    The instrument he used was probably an ultrasonic scaler. It vibrates at very high frequencies and removes plaque with the resulting vibration and sound waves, it needs a water spray to keep it cool and to flush the debris away....
    Used correctly on sound teeth it should cause no damage. It may cause some transient sensitivity in some people as by removing an "insulating layer" of plaque from the root- it may expose some dentine to the hot/cold environment of the mouth.... This settles as the root dentine seals itself again...

    The gums can also be a little sore from it's use...

    If your tooth had decay, defective fillings or fracture lines already present and the scaler was being operated by a monkey- some damage may be done to tooth structure but this is very unlikely...

    Give it a few days...

    OS

    Thanks for replying.

    No, it feels the exact same way today.

    The teeth that are sore are ones that have fillings from a few years ago and one that I thought was badly decayed and there was a crack in - my main reason for going to the dentist yesterday.( but he mentioned noting about a crack)
    should be worried now? Because I am.

    I was going to go to the dentist tomorrow to get it checked so maybe I should wait a few days to see if it settles, although after tomorrow I will have to wait a week before I get to go to the dentist again.
    Should I wait till next week?

    If there was damage to tooth structure how bad would that be?

    Thanks again.


  • #5
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    nousernames wrote: »
    Thanks for replying.

    No, it feels the exact same way today.

    The teeth that are sore are ones that have fillings from a few years ago and one that I thought was badly decayed and there was a crack in - my main reason for going to the dentist yesterday.( but he mentioned noting about a crack)
    should be worried now? Because I am.

    I was going to go to the dentist tomorrow to get it checked so maybe I should wait a few days to see if it settles, although after tomorrow I will have to wait a week before I get to go to the dentist again.
    Should I wait till next week?

    If there was damage to tooth structure how bad would that be?

    Thanks again.

    Sorry to hear, I thought that your teeth were fine to start...
    I still don't see an ultrasonic scaler causing damage to the tooth if the tooth was perfect to start with.
    If however the tooth was compromised to begin with (decay, defective filling or preexisting fracture) it may precipitate that problem and cause it to become symptomatic sooner but really it was going that way anyway.....

    Really best to see the dentist soon to put your mind at ease if this is the case.

    All the best,
    OS


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