What causes dental calculus?

Dental calculus is caused by plaque deposition, which is often caused by the excessive amount of plaque deposited on the tooth surface, which in turn leads to the production of dental calculus. In order to remove calculus on the tooth surface, it is necessary to go to the hospital for teeth cleaning.

I think there are dietary reasons, routine reasons, artificial reasons, genetic reasons, and genetic reasons. Therefore, when we have dental calculus, we must go to the hospital to do the corresponding **, and do not let the condition worsen.

If you don't take care of your dental health, you often don't brush your teeth, eat chocolate, drink strong tea, and don't pay attention to dental hygiene, so you have dental calculus.

It may be that you often don't brush your teeth, often eat sticky foods, often eat spicy foods, and sometimes periodontal atrophy.

The main reason is that the gap between the oral cavity is not cleaned, and it will accumulate over the years to produce dental calculus.

Under normal circumstances, people's teeth should be white and abnormal, but with age, many people's teeth begin to have various problems, such as toothache, bleeding gums, yellowing of teeth, etc. There are many reasons for this condition, and dental calculus is one of them, so what are the causes of dental calculus?

1. Start with the formation of soft scale

The formation of dental calculus begins with soft scale, which is a soft, amorphous deposit containing a large number of bacteria and exuded white blood cells, exfoliated epithelial cells, food debris, etc. If the soft scale is deposited on the tooth surface and is not brushed off in time, it can become a scaffold, which is conducive to the deposition of calcium salts to form dental calculus.

2. The pH value of saliva is increased

The escape of carbon dioxide in saliva, ammonia produced by bacterial metabolism and protein decomposition can lead to an increase in the pH value of saliva, resulting in the precipitation of calcium and phosphorus ions in a supersaturated state and precipitation, forming stones on the surface of the teeth.

3. Bacteria and shedding upper cells

Phosphatases released by bacteria and exfoliated epithelial cells accelerate the deposition of phosphate, which forms a hard mass of foreign matter on the tooth surface.

4. Tartar's **

Calculus causes attachment to be in different locations at the gingival margin, and is divided into supragingival calculus and subgingival calculus. Inorganic salts such as calcium and phosphorus in saliva are the main causes of supragingival calculus, while subgingival calculi mainly rely on the inorganic salts provided in the exudate in the gingival sulcus.

5. The speed varies from person to person

The rate of calculus formation varies from person to person, and is affected by the amount of saliva, saliva composition, diet, tooth alignment, and oral hygiene habits.

6. Remove tips

1. White vinegar tooth cleaning.

For patients with mild calculus, you can try to remove calculus with white vinegar by first rinsing with white vinegar for 3-5 minutes, and letting the vinegar wash back and forth in the mouth first. Then brush your teeth with a toothbrush dipped in salt water. This method mainly uses the acetic acid contained in white vinegar to dissolve tartar.

2. Strawberry baking powder.

Crush a strawberry into a paste, add half a spoon of baking powder, mix the two thoroughly, apply the mixture evenly to the surface of the tooth with a soft toothbrush, brush off the mixture with toothpaste after 5 minutes, and finally rinse your mouth. Because the malic acid contained in strawberries can be used as a reducer to remove stains on the surface of the teeth, and baking powder is a natural tooth cleaner, and the combination can effectively remove tartar.

3. Brush your teeth.

Grind the alum into powder, and brush your teeth with a toothbrush dipped in some alum before brushing each time, 2 times a day, to remove yellow tartar.

4. Squid bones.

You can grind 50 grams of squid bones into fine powder, stir with an appropriate amount of toothpaste, and brush your teeth with toothpaste mixed with squid bones twice a day to effectively remove black tartar.

5. Scaling. For more serious dental calculus, if the tartar is very stubborn and difficult to remove, you can go to the hospital for tooth cleaning**, and help remove dental calculus through professional equipment**.

1.As the concentration of carbon dioxide in saliva decreases, inorganic salts precipitate on the tooth surface.

2.Phosphate is formed by the hydrolysis of organophosphorus by phosphate enzymes in degenerative cells, which precipitate phosphorus on the tooth surface.

3.The bacteria increase the pH value of saliva and make it alkaline, causing the proteins in saliva to decompose and release calcium salts, which precipitate on the surface of teeth.

4.It is related to the concentration of saliva, and the greater the concentration, the easier it is to precipitate.

Plaque and scale need to be turned into tartar through a calcification process.

A tooth is a structure that exists on vertebrates and is the hardest organ of the human body.

Everyone can have two sets of natural teeth, and after the first set of baby teeth is lost, a second set of teeth will grow; Most permanent teeth come out around the age of 14. There are 32 permanent teeth, 16 in the upper and 16 in the lower jaw.

Ways to protect your teeth:

1. Eat less candy, drink less carbonated drinks, don't eat sugar before going to bed, don't drink sweet milk, etc.

2. Don't break or lick your teeth with your hands or tongue.

3. Maintain oral hygiene, brush your teeth in the morning and evening, and rinse your mouth after meals to keep your mouth clean.

The tooth structure is divided into three parts: the crown, the root, and the neck at the junction. From the outside to the inside, it is divided into enamel (the surface of the root of the tooth is cementum), dentin, and pulp.

In modern medicine, teeth are divided into central incisors, lateral incisors, canines, first premolars, second premolars, first molars, second molars, and third molars. Permanent teeth can be divided into permanent incisors, permanent canines, permanent premolars, and permanent molars, and deciduous teeth are divided into deciduous incisors, deciduous canines, and deciduous molars.

The function of teeth: chewing food, assisting pronunciation, and maintaining facial beauty.

After tooth damage, there may be a series of problems such as tooth color change, loose teeth, tooth displacement, tooth pain, bleeding gums, bad breath, etc.

Dental examinations include physical examinations, X-rays, etc.