E. Esther Lopez, DDS

Prevent oral illnesses/dental problems

They are enumerated in the board of directors to the left some preventive measures that can reduce the occurrence of the oral illness of the health.

Nevertheless, there are many disorders of the mouth, such as them enumerated to the left, that require clinical care of the dentist or of the other oral specialist of the health. Do not utilize please this place as substituto for its dental medical care or another. Vist our page of the disclaimer in this Web site for the additional information with regard to these limitations, and consults immediately with the its doctor or the other supplier of the medical care with regard to any medical condition of the emergency that you can have.

Dental health Oral/Specialists

¿ Which is general dentist (DDS or DMD)?
On the graduation of the dental school -- to do a general dentist -- grant a dentist a DDS or a degree of DMD:

DDS = doctor of the dental surgery

DMD = doctor of the dental medicine

There is not difference among the two degrees -- both dentists have received the same education and have finished the same requirements of the plan of studies set by the Commission of the dental association American in the dental accreditation. The difference is simply semantics -- some institutions grant a degree of DMD, while other grant a degree of the DDS. Generally, three or more university years of education of the student more four years of the dental school is required to graduate and to feel well a general dentist. The panels that graduate of the state accept any degree as equivalent, and both degrees permit that the licensed individuals practice the same reach of the odontología general.

Areas specialized of the odontología

The additional graduate training is required to feel well a dental specialist. The specialists of the health of Dental/Oral include the following one:

• Pediatric dentist

  A pediatric dentist is specialist in the field of dentristy -- being occupied particularly of the oral medical care of children, of the infancy with the years adolescents. In children of guide and the adolescences to bias his growth and development, the pediatric dentists work often closely with of the pediatricians, medical of dental head, and of other dental specialists in the comprehensive dental and medical provision of care.

• Endodontist

  The specialists also calls of the pulpa, endodontists have experienced the training specialized in the execution of Root Canal. This private branch of the odontología refers to the morphology, to the physiology, and to the pathology the pulpa dental human (smooth area of the fine weave the external enamel of the tooth and the dental enamel) and the fine weaves periradicular -- of the prevention and processing of illnesses and wounds among including from the the pulpa and the conditions periradicular associated .

• Oral surgeon and of Maxillofacial

  
  The oral surgeons and maxillofacial are really responsible for treating orthopedic facial surgeons an extensive variety of dental problems -- including the retreat of teeth affected and of the facial surgery reconstructive. This dental specialty also includes the diagnosis and the processing of illnesses, of wounds, and of defects that imply esthetic and functional aspects of the hard fine weaves and smooth of the oral region and maxillofacial.

• Orthodontist

  Orthodontists is the dentists especially coached that they specialize themselves in the development, the prevention, and the correction of the irregularities of the teeth, of the mordedura, and of the quijadas. Orthodontists has also specialized the training in abnormalities and facial disorders of the quijada. A patient consults often an orthodontist after receiving a remission of his general dentist.

• Periodontist

  Periodontists is responsible for the care and the prevention of illnesses rubber-related, regeneration of the bone, and dental directed establishes. It is the specialty of the odontología that includes the prevention, the diagnosis, and the processing of the illnesses of the backup and of the surrounding fine weaves of the teeth or of its substitutos, and of the maintenance of the health, of the function, and of the esthetics of these structures and fine weaves.

• Prosthodontist

  Prosthodontists is the dental specialists that have experienced the training and the additional certification in the restoration and the I replace of teeth broken with the crowns, the bridges, or the prosthetics desprendible (Dentures). It is the branch of the odontología that also specializes himself in understanding the dynamics of the smile, to preserve a healthy mouth, and to create reemplazos of the tooth. Of Prosthodontists work often closely with other members of the oral team of the medical care in the restoration of the natural teeth, to substitute the teeth that lacks, and/or to develop the substitutos artificial for the oral fine weaves and maxillofacial damaged. Besides, the prosthodontists have also specialized the training in the following one:
  • oral reconstruction of the cancer of the post
  • common problems of the quijada (that is to say, common disorder temporomandibular)
  • wounds traumáticas of the mouth
  • snoring and disorders the to sleep