People are born to eat, and by six months, children already have one or two teeth. Children's teeth are very good, parents must pay attention to protecting their children's teeth and encourage them to eat less sweet food. Nowadays, most hospitals have dental facilities that can help solve dental problems. Do you know what dental checkups include?
What are the items included in dental examination
1. Lip examination
Generally speaking, the lips of a healthy person are rosy and glossy, but if the following symptoms occur, it indicates the presence of disease factors.
2. Dental and gum examination
It mainly checks the number, arrangement, color, caries, missing, loose, bite, contact relationship and restorations of teeth, as well as the presence of pulp perforation, dental calculus, bad breath and other phenomena. The main methods of examination include visual examination, percussion, palpation, and probing.
3. Oral mucosal examination
Generally speaking, the oral mucosa of a normal person is more shiny and pink in color. If there are bruises or bleeding spots of varying sizes on the oral mucosa of the subject, it indicates a lack of vitamin C or some bleeding disorder in the subject's body; If there are patchy blue black spots on the mucous membrane of the subject's mouth, it indicates a decrease in adrenal cortex function.
What is the function of oral and dental examination
Common oral diseases (such as dental caries, periodontal disease, etc.) are mostly chronic diseases with unclear early symptoms, which are easily overlooked by people. Therefore, through regular oral health check ups, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment can be achieved.
Regular oral health check ups are one of the important basic tasks for implementing the secondary prevention system, otherwise the measures for secondary prevention cannot be implemented more effectively.
Teeth are an essential part of human life. Many people go to the hospital for regular check ups in order to have good teeth. Understanding what items are included in dental examinations can help everyone choose the appropriate examination items according to their own needs. To have good teeth, one must persist in brushing their teeth every day.
