A dental cleaning and blood tests?
With the continuous improvement of people’s awareness of oral health care, Jie Zhi (commonly known as “cleaning”) is known and accepted by more and more people.
But there are a lot of tips before and after cleaning, you know?
Cleaning Tips: What is periodontitis?
Answer: PERIODONTITIS IS THE INFECTIOUS DISEASE OF periodonTAL TISSUE caused by bacteria, which can lead to gingival inflammation, periodontal pocket formation, progressive attachment loss and alveolar bone resorption, and serious cases will appear tooth loosening, displacement and fall off.
How to prevent periodontitis?
A: In addition to consistent self-plaque control (including brushing, flossing, and the use of dental space brush when necessary), regular (1-2 times per year) dental cleaning is an important measure to maintain periodontal health and prevent the occurrence or recurrence of gingivitis and periodontitis.
Why do you want a blood test?
What items should be tested?
A: Dental cleaning is good for oral health, but it is not for everyone, especially for some patients with systemic diseases.
Patients with hematological disorders, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, severe liver disease, or long-term anticoagulant use should not have their teeth cleaned until their systemic disease is stable because of bleeding during dental cleaning.
In addition, for acute hepatitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, AIDS and other infectious diseases should not use ultrasonic cleaning teeth, so as to avoid blood and pathogenic bacteria with spray and pollution of the room air, leading to cross infection.
Therefore, before cleaning your teeth, the dentist needs to know your general health status, conduct relevant blood tests (including blood routine, blood coagulation spectrum and related infectious disease tests), and consult a physician if necessary.
¡¾ Blood test items ¡¿¡¤ Routine blood test ¡¤ Coagulation function ¡¤ Hepatitis B 3 system ¡¤ Hepatitis C ¡¤ Syphilis ¡¤ HIV What should be paid attention to after dental cleaning?
1. It is normal for the gingiva to have a little bloodiness with a little soreness after cleaning.
2. Within a few weeks after tooth cleaning, it is normal to have a little acid and soft teeth.
Avoid eating too cold or too hot food.
In order to avoid physical stimulation of dentin allergy aggravated phenomenon.
3. Effectively clean the mouth after teeth cleaning, and pay attention to change the way of brushing teeth.
Do not brush horizontally, do 2-3 times a day to brush your teeth, every time after eating to rinse the good habit.
4, brushing bleeding, gingiva with a little redness and swelling in general after a week of teeth cleaning will slowly improve, the more serious symptoms need to continue the periodontal system treatment.
Cleaning can remove dental stones, plaque and some pigment on the surface, prevent dental caries, periodontitis, and help keep teeth and gums healthy.
If you haven’t cleaned your teeth, look in a mirror to see if there are deposits between the inside of your teeth. Do you have bad breath when you breathe out of your mouth?
If so, you need a tooth cleaning.
A blood routine is a test that assesses the number of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in the blood to assess a person’s basic health conditions, such as whether they have anemia, are they experiencing an infection (which increases the number of white blood cells), and are they suffering from thrombocytopenia (which may affect clotting)?
If the dentist finds that some indicators are seriously deviating from the normal value, he will often advise the patient to postpone the cleaning and go to the general medical department to check for systemic problems.
Coagulation function coagulation function examination is to directly observe a person bleeding after the coagulation function is normal, only the coagulation function is normal, can ensure that the bleeding after cleaning teeth, can be in acceptable time to stop bleeding, otherwise bleeding more than the loss.
For example, some patients who have been taking anticoagulants such as aspirin for a long time may stop taking them for a while to prepare for a dental cleaning.
Biochemical indicators Biochemical indicators and liver and kidney function are also the embodiment of people’s basic health status, in particular, we should pay attention to whether there is hyperglycemia, liver function impairment and other problems, hyperglycemia and liver function impairment on the one hand will lead to the patient’s periodontitis aggravated, on the other hand, it will also let the patient’s coagulation function impaired.
Screening for infectious diseases. We’ll focus on screening for infectious diseases, including HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and so on.
This is actually a critical screening.
Because these viruses are transmitted through blood, and cleaning is a bleeding procedure.
Just like surgery to screen for this series of infectious diseases, dental cleaning is also a must.
Especially like hepatitis B, in our country in fact a lot of infected, even the patient does not know, when hepatitis B is in the infectious relatively high time, we will suggest that patients give priority to hepatitis B treatment, after all, hepatitis is much more serious than periodontitis;
In addition, acute infectious period of patients are prone to nosocomial infection, there is a certain chance that the virus will be transmitted to the operator;
Friends who have washed their teeth know that, in fact, when the ultrasonic cleaning machine works, it will produce a lot of water mist, if mixed with these viruses, it will pollute the whole room;
In addition, the treatment of some virus carriers, after the treatment of the instrument disinfection specifications are also different, many times is to separate disinfection.
Some patients may find it troublesome, but only after these tests, it is a responsible attitude for all patients and doctors.
So, next time if you go to wash a tooth, must go to regular hospital clinic, how to distinguish?
If these examinations can be done before cleaning, then we say that this must be a serious and responsible medical institution.
