New dental clinics in Gdansk and Lodz

Dental Travel Poland is happy to present to you our new dental clinics in Gdansk and Lodz! 

For your convenience we now offer you two more locations of our dental clinics: dental clinic in Gdansk and dentist in Lodz. In order to meet the requirements of our patients, our new clinics offer a full range of dental services including simple procedures like fillings as well as complicated surgical treatment like dental implants in Poland and surgical extractions. In our clinics you can visibly improve the appearance of your teeth thanks to new ways of teeth whitening, installing veneers or crowns and performing teeth cleaning.

But the high quality dental treatment is not all that is provided in our new clinics. We also offer you the newest, technologically advanced tools and equippment, thanks to which your treatment will be not only effective but also painless. Apart from all that, we as usual provide the best dentists in Poland who take professional care of our patients. In our dental clinics in Gdansk and Lodz you will gain a beautiful, white smile and satisfaction.

We strongly encourage our patients to devote some of their free time between dental visits to sightseeing. Both Lodz and Gdansk are full of surprises and tourist attractions. Gdansk is situated by the Baltic Sea, so you can easily combine dental treatment with fantastic holidays in Gdansk. In Lodz you will find a lot of historical and cultural places worth seeing. 

Visit our website and find out more about our new clinics in Gdansk and Lodz. Book your dental appointment today and get a Hollywood smile! 

Christmas goodies versus dental health

Christmas goodies tempt - they are tasty and beautifully presented. Unfortunatelly, many of them are sweet, and some food contain ingredients unhealthy for teeth. There are some dishes, after eating which particular care of oral hygiene should be taken. So - while taking care of your stomach during Christmas, you must also remember about the parts of your mouth which allow you to enjoy the tasty food, meaning your teeth. Negligence of dental hygiene can quickly lead to the formation of tartar on the teeth, bad breath, and caries attack.

Among the delicacies which are quite dangerous for your teeth are: boiled wheat with poppy seeds and honey, compotes and cakes. On the one hand they are delicious and nutritious and thanks to the fruit filling they provide large amounts of valuable nutrients for health. On the other hand, they are full of the main enemy of teeth, which is sugar. One of the safest food for the health of teeth, which can be found on the Christmas table, is fish - it also provides the ingredients that positively affect the state of periodontal tissues.

Another enemy of healthy teeth is also the frequency of meals. We tend to forget about its destructive strength. During Christmas we eat practically all the time, rr at least more often than normally. This means that the saliva can not keep up with cleaning the mouth and does not effectively restore the proper pH inside the your mouth. It results in an increased activity of caries and enamel defects. 

How to cherish the Christmas meals and at the same time take care of your oral hygiene?

First of all, we should brush the teeth, and of course, do it reasonably. You should focus primarily on the precise brushing. You can wash your teeth after the last meal, because no one will go to the bathroom after each of the twelve meals. 

Merry Christmas everyone !

May traditions that you treasure most 

And all the special plans you've made 

Bring sentimental Christmas joys 

And memories that never fade.

Wishing you a beautiful holiday season 
and the New Year of Peace and Happiness 

with best wishes from Dental Travel Poland.

Perfect Smile

Modern dentistry achievements allow us to "produce" a wonderful, dazzling smile for almost everybody. If nature has not endowed us equally with healthy and white teeth, you can attempt to fix those things which make you dissatisfied.

Where do I start?

From the initial visit - a patient together with the dentist determine how to come to the ideal smile. The doctor determines to what extent you need to fix your teeth after the examination and interview. Immediately he/she will propose a scheme of conduct, proposed treatments and determine the approximate cost of the "new" teeth. She/he may also consult an orthodontist in case the patient needs to correct the bite. Many patients come to the dentist with the assumption that they need to have a lot of rotten teeth extracted. Very often this is a mistaken to think so - the teeth may still heal and be saved, not extracted right ahead.

An extraction of a tooth is the last resort, and sometimes it is necessary. Sometimes, even a healthy tooth has to be extracted in order to improve the shape of the bite. Sometimes the shape of the jaw must be corrected by performing a surgery.

In the place of the removed, crooked or poorly shaped tooth the dentist may insert a implant which will look more perfect than a natural tooth.

When teeth are are already equal and cured, you can start the teeth whitening Poland treatment. It would be best to do it in the dentist's office - the treatment would be carried out under full control, and the results can be very surprising. To avoid and unpleasant surprise, and make sure that all the existing fillings match the color of the teeth after whitening, you have to rely on the suggestions of the dentist when he/she decides to replace old fillings with new ones, whose color would match the new shade of the bleached teeth. 

If the final result of the whitening does not satisfy the patient, he/she can decide on perfectly matched veneers. Thanks to the dental veneers Poland, the teeth and spaces between them will be perfectly equal.

Facts about Dental Bridges

Functions of dental bridges:

- restoration of missing teeth, filling gaps in the dental arch

- restoring chewing abilities

- preventing adjacent teeth from shifting 

- restoring the correct articulation,

- aesthetics

Contraindications:

- sick pillar tooth or mucous membrane

- alveolus bone defects,

- lack of the ending pillar tooth when a few gaps are to be filled

Construction:

pillar - a tooth, which provides the anchor (there could be several such teeth)

anchor - mounted on a pillar

bridge span - located between two anchors

During chewing the pressure forces act only on the pillar teeth, the bone is unloaded.

Stages of the bridge placement:

- examination of the patient, treatment of any sick teeth

- preparation of the pillars

- taking impressions

- preapring of models 

- performance of the metal structure

- placing the structure in the patient's mouth and any adjustments

- coating the structure with ceramics or plastics

- placing the bridge in the patient's mouth for a few days as a trial period

- cementation of the bridge

Division of dental bridges according to the fastening:

- fixed - are cemented on the pillars, can not be removed for cleaning, require very careful oral hygiene

- moving/movable - with the possibility of their removal, can be easily and thoroughly cleaned; consist of cemented on the tooth and detachable parts

- conditionally movable bridges - removed by a doctor

- unconditionally movable bridges - removable by the patient

What is the root canal treatment and why is it performed?

To understand the nature of the root canal treatment (endodontic treatment) it is necessary to mention the construction of the tooth. The tooth is made of a crown and roots. The crown is a portion of the tooth projecting above the gum and the root (or roots) resides in the bone. Inside each tooth there is a cavity that is filled with pulp, popularly known as the "nerves". It performs the functions of nutrients, and is composed of blood vessels and nerves.

The most frequent cause of toothache is ongoing inflammation in the pulp. It is mostly a consequence of dental caries but also periodontal diseases and tooth injury. That's when a patient needs root canal treatment, which involves the removal of infected or dead pulp and root canal system of teeth, by chemical and mechanical cleaning and filling the tooth with special material. Endodontic treatment gives us a chance to preserve the tooth, when the pulp is changed pathologically.

What are the stages of the endodontic treatment? 

It consists of successive stages:

- opening the chamber of the tooth and removal of the living or dead pulp (usually performed under local anesthesia)

- shaping the canal with hand tools or machines 

- drainage of the canal system

- filling the channel with special material 

- the tooth after the root canal treatment should be rebuilt usually by the use of a post and a prosthetic crown. In the case of small destruction of a crown of the tooth, it can be filled with composite filling

Root canal treatment abroad is labor-and time-consuming treatment and requires a lot of patience from both physician and patient. It is not always possible to perform full treatment in one visit, sometimes it needs more meetings, especially in the treatment of multi-canal teeth, or treatment of teeth with gangrenous pulp, abscesses, cysts, etc. Then, during the time between the visits a pateint has a tooth dressing. It is important to maintain the tightness of the dressing, since if the bacteria re-enters to the prepared root canal system, it usually destroys the current treatment. Therefore it is important to keep your appointments in the time advised by your doctor.