To replace them as the teeth are essential to feed, and keep our body healthy, using prosthetic, which are often fixed, others removed, and can replace one or more teeth, including crowns or caps exist, bridges, implants and dentures. But the same especially the latter requires some care.

Especially if you have recently been placed, you will be asked the patient to eat soft foods and foods that will incorporate a little harder. You must also chew soft food slowly to avoid damaging the structure of the mouth, and not threaten the prosthesis.

Unless otherwise noted specialist, dentures must be removed before you start cleaning, to prevent accumulation of plaque, they should not be cleaned with boiling water because heat can damage and loosen the teeth only the must sanitize water at natural temperature and liquid indicated by our dentist.

If you experience discomfort of any kind, or bruises, blisters caused by the prosthesis, the patient should immediately consult with their trusted specialist.

The oral cavity is one of the most polluted that has the body and if he adds a hygiene failures, then it generates an increase in bacterial flora and, therefore, whenever a food is ingested bacteria are inoculated to the body which can produce, in addition to caries, other diseases such as respiratory, gastrointestinal, cardiac and valvular disease causing even the death of the patient.

Also, the specialist commented that one of the diseases caused by lack of oral hygiene is the endocarditis, an infection caused by cardiovascular undrained abscesses or eliminated by germ invades the valvular endocardium (lining of the heart chambers), as a result of sepsis (severe infection and potentially fatal).

“Bacteria in the mouth convert all foods into acids, which when combined with food waste form what is known as plaque, that failure occurs eventually eliminated because of tooth decay, infections and diseases such as gingivitis (inflammation and bleeding gums) and periodontitis (disease of the supporting teeth).

Since about 50 years ago showed that the decay could be controlled with the use of fluoride, many preparations have appeared that contain it. Some are for professional use and some not.

Fluoride has three very beneficial effects on teeth:

- Increases the resistance of enamel: Applying fluoride on the teeth, it reacts with calcium in them, forming calcium fluoride. In this way, the fluorine reacts with the crystals of tooth enamel (hydroxyapatite), resulting in a compound that greatly increases the resistance of enamel.

- It helps remineralisation: Fluoride contributes to the remineralization of the tooth, by encouraging entry into the structure of calcium and phosphate ions. This is because the fluoride has negative charge and attracts the calcium and phosphate whose charge is positive.

- Has antibacterial action: Fluoride has antibacterial action attacking the bacteria that colonize the tooth surface.