DENTAL CARIES
Dental caries or tooth decay with pain is the most common complain of the patient in dental clinic. Let's start when the decay of the tooth has just started with no pain. Tooth decay can be smaller or bigger (deep), so I will explain it in stages with its treatment. 1) Cavity is limited to the enamel Small black spot or line on the tooth. No pain is present Patient complaints black spot on the tooth. Treatment is caries removal and filling. 2) Cavity extended to dentin Slightly deeper decay Patient complain pain sensation while drinking cold and hot water, eating sweet and also food lodgement. Pain only last for few seconds and gone. Again treatment will be same caries removal and filling. 3) Cavity reached to dental pulp. Deep cavity to dental pulp so infection reached in bone through the opening at the tip of the root. Sometime if the infection in the bone is not treated it will become pus patient will be having a swelling. Again if the treatment is not done and swelling is p...