Three Elements That Cause Dental Diseases and How to Avoid Them

It is certain that every single human being will encounter dental disease only in varying degrees during his or her lifetime. Bacterial diseases that devastate the teeth, jawbone and gums are ones known as dental caries, or tooth decay, and periodontal disease, gingivitis, or gum disease, and periodontitis, or pyonrhea.

The existence of the three variables of bacterial infections are the host, which is the human being, the bacteria that causes harm, and a source of nutrition to nourish the bacteria in the mouth. If any of these three ingredients are absent, disease will not develop. Even as the development of dental disease has a very simply formula, there are many factors which influence the extent and severity of such health problems. A couple of the problems that we encounter in health would be race and ethnicity, without a doubt.

Dental cavities have already struck a percentage of kids between 12 to 23 months, based on the research of the NIH. Furthermore, 63 percent of kids from 2 to 9 years old were free from cavities in their primary dentition while 55 percent of 5 to 17 year old kids do not have cavities at all in their permanent teeth. There does not seem to be any differences in cavity woes of kids from the ages of 2 to 9 but this is on a boys versus girls basis and it was also noted that a slightly less cavity problem was present more in black kids than in white ones. Non Hispanic black and white people encounter more cavity problems at this age compared to Mexican Americans.

With no substantial difference between genders, it has been evident that permanent teeth of 5 to 17 year old children were found to possess no cavities at all, 55 percent of the time. When this age's subgroups were further looked into, blacks were found to be somewhat less prone to tooth cavities and decay, next would be the Mexican Americans who were just somewhat more prone to tooth decay, while cavity development in the white people went to around that of the average of the group as an entire set.

Compared to the cavity and filling trends for race and ethnic groups for the adult population, the adolescent and child population had less differences in trends. Even as there were very few differences between the genders, there were significant differences in the subgroups that were studied. Half of the filling or cavity experience among non Hispanic whites were possessed by both Mexican Americans and non Hispanic black people.

But on average, fewer cavities were found in Mexican Americans and they were more likely to have more than the whites or the black non Hispanic people. Age increases and this means that exposure of the root surfaces to the oral environment is very likely to happen. Such is closely related to a combination of disease processes along with a string of other factors.

Root surfaces in one to two teeth per individual were found to be effected by cavities, and this was without regard to race or race ethnicity groups. It was modern dental practice and science that paved the way, in the last few decades, for tooth loss occurrences' decline. Around 30 percent of the people who responded to the study had all of their teeth while around 90 percent of these people had at least a tooth and this was applicable for those beyond the age of 18.

Long lasting teeth are the six ones at the lower front part. But then 10 percent in this group was unable to keep even just one tooth. When it came to the molars, the first and second ones were frequently missing while the upper jaw lost more teeth than the lower jaw, usually. Non Hispanic blacks were found to top those who had most tooth loss while Mexican Americans were the lowest.

It was established well that 90 percent or more of the people examined had to go through minor troubles with gum loss or loss of bone support to the teeth while 40 percent in this population suffered from a moderate loss of dentition support. Fifteen percent had developed severe bone support destruction of their teeth. Males tended to be effected more frequently and severely than females. Periodontal health of non Hispanic whites are far better than the ones that non Hispanic blacks or Mexican Americans have.

It was apparent through this comprehensive survey that the dental health residents of America varies among ethnic groups and races, plus there has been steady improvement in the decades that have gone by. In the midst of such improvements, dental disease continues to be a significant health problem but on the upside, the treatment of such things can readily be provided by the local dental attendants.