Professional dental cleaning (PTC): the great misnomer

The authors of Solution Center dental lies the main dental measure to provide the provision to the test: a professional teeth cleaning (PTC) protects against dental disease? The author and physician Dr. Lars Hendrickson according to a PTC is only a purely cosmetic treatment and thus the largest misnomer of modern dentistry.

“A professional dental cleaning protects patients not from caries.” “Only 24 hours after the supposed precaution again bacterial pads on the surfaces of the teeth, which lead to caries form”, said Hendrickson. Thus, a PTC have no long term benefits for dental health. On the contrary: “patients weigh in security and believe they have done something for their dental health”, the journalist Dorothea Brandt said. Effective and long-term resources to the provision remained on the track.

“This is a conscious deception of the patients and a sham of the dental profession,” Hendrickson further criticism. Dentists could affect long term and in the long term positive dental health of patients, if they would recommend, for example, the sugar substitute xylitol to the provision. Instead, he leads a shadowy, still in Germany, although it is known for decades that xylitol instead of sugar lowers the risk of caries to null, and can even cure tooth decay.

The remaining measures in a PTC are no added value to health, since each patient can fluoridating his teeth at home even as well as with the antibacterial mouthwash can kill 98% of harmful bacteria in the oral cavity. A frequently offered tongue cleaning removes only the sulfur bacteria responsible for the bad breath, an effectiveness of this method in terms of dental health is not scientifically proven.

“By the high abrasive effect of the compounds, the enamel is removed beyond repair, the teeth are schmerzempfindlich and permanently damaged the tooth”, criticized Hendrickson. Also the cosmetic benefits is by duration: “By the ever thinner growing enamel, the darker dentin Shimmers through.” “The teeth are yellow”.

Thomas Pfeiffer for PKpublishing

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