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Food gets stuck between the teeth, thread breaks when cleaning the teeth, the gum under the seal hurts and bleeds?!

When restoring the teeth, dentists are doing their best in order to restore the tooth strictly in line with its natural analogue - a natural crown of a healthy tooth.

Restored teeth should have a good, close contact with the neighboring tooth; the seal should connect with the enamel of the tooth without forming any voids as well as overhanging edges, and should fully restore the chewing relief of the tooth, meaning all the bumps of the tooth should be restored in an accurate manner.

Yet, at times, due to certain reasons, restoration does not always meet one of the above-mentioned criteria, and the seal happens to be wider than the tooth or does not restore contact with the neighboring tooth. An indirect indication of such an issue may be the fact that when cleaning the teeth with dental floss, the thread will break once it will get to the problematic area. This violates the natural mechanisms of oral self-cleaning, which in combination with the inability of high-quality day to day oral hygiene leads to the following consequences and sensations for the patient:

Here, because of poor hygiene, caries appeared within the interdental space and the gum got slightly inflamed

During caries treatment, due to a number of certain reasons, the seal was not placed properly

Food that gets into the interdental space falls under the overhanging edge of the seal and cannot be removed via dental floss, even with considerable diligence on patient’s part. Should you try to clean the location with a thread, the thread will tear once it will touch the overhanging edge.

Inevitably, after a while, caries will certainly recur, due to accumulated food debris, which are very challenging to remove. The inflammation of the gums in this area is just as inevitable along with the appearance of fetid odor, bleeding gum and its change in color (at times, accompanied by its puffiness and soreness)

Such a seal certainly requires to be redone.

Every clinical situation demands a competent approach. The "Denta Vita" dental clinic is using the original "Palodent" (Palodent & V-ring, DentSply, USA) contour matrices systems, which allow achieving best contact points between the lateral teeth with a smooth transition of restoration towards the tooth tissues, without overhanging edges, which eliminates the ingress of food between the teeth and does not break the thread when cleaning the teeth. Normal physiological processes around the tooth are established and patients are therefore benefiting from guaranteed biocompatible restorations.