Tartar removal

Tartar is nothing else but fossilized, mineralized plaque. It is formulated in parts of the denture where cleaning is difficult or obstructed or places where the movements of natural cleaning mechanisms of the mouth, like tongue or cheek are not prevailing. Tartar can be located either below or above the gum and shall develop mostly opposite to the outlet openings of major salivary glands. The uneven surfaced tartar helps the sediment of further plaque thus increasingly obstructing the cleaning. The increasing tartar with the newly deposited plaque is a developing plant of bacteria maintaining a continuous inflammation along the gum and the periodontal. Moreover the numerous colouring agents (caffee, tea, coke, smoking) colour the tartar further worsening the not too aesthetic sight.

Tartar can be removed in dental surgery only, unfortunately there is no chance to do it at home. In our surgery skilled dental hygienist removes tartar by ultrasound or manual devices. In course of ultrasound tartar removal the ultrasound smoothly blows off the tartar without having an impact on the enamel, beacuse the material of enamel is much more solid. It removes smaller deposits as well and by its fine tips the deeper areas of the gingival pocket can be reached as well without hurting the gum.

The ultrasound tartar removal may cause cercival sensibility and may be accompanied by pain, since treatment takes place just where tartars „pushed down” the gum making the much more sensible cercival root surface. The sensibility of patients in this respect is very different, some of them feel nothing at all, others just a little cold feeling, while there are also patients who would suffer intensive pain without local narcotization. While in simple cases there is no need for anesthetics and the removal treatment may be carried out by an assistant with dental hygienist’s qualification, in serious cases the tartar removal treatment has to be made by a dentist who gives anesthetics for the painless treatment.

If we don’t let tartar be removed regulary, first only the risk of gingivitis increases, after a time the inflammed gum retracts and inflammation spreads out to the bone. In this phase we have to calculate with the loosening of our teeth, it means on a long term the innocent tartar may lead to loose our teeth.