How to remove tartar from teeth

Cooper18

tysoup wrote: »

I found this on amazon, might be worth a try

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005S7TM3Q/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Makes me shudder to think of the damage you could do to your mouth using one of these on yourself. I'm not sure I'd take the chance no matter how phobic I was. Dentistry is very different these days to how it was when I was a kid, please go see a dentist.

brook2jack

tysoup wrote: »

I found this on amazon, might be worth a try

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005S7TM3Q/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This is madness. If you have tartar you have an oral health problem. Sooner or later you will develop a problem that you cannot attempt to solve yourself, although I have seen people who are so scared they have attempted to take a tooth out themselves and ended up in a real mess.

As toothsmith says due to a change in regulations some practices will allow you to book in to see a hygienist privately without seeing a dentist first. This would allow you to get rid of the tartar professionally. However you do need to see a dentist at some point , if you have tartar you do not have a healthy mouth and you want problems sorting before you end up in real trouble.

You may be a suitable candidate to be sedated for treatment and a dentist may provide that or you may have to be referred but you need to see a dentist.

Poking around with sharp , unsterilised instruments from goodness knows where around inflamed gums is going to cause nothing but trouble. You know this really, and it is irresponsible for anyone to suggest an alternative to seeing a professional.

I_luv_cats

Can you get a sedative from a pharmacy or doctors first?


Seeing an hygienist is the best way.

Once they have removed the tartar, they can advise how you can keep it down @ home yourself with inter-dental brushes/floss etc.

Best thing I did. (I regularly use floss/inter-dental brushes to maintain)

Mine wasn't too bad but annoying as was like kettle fur in-between my teeth, so flossing was near impossible

nickyhutch

suki1964 wrote: »

Well aren't you the so very lucky one

Just because your experience is so wonderful at least have the common curtesy to accept not every one has the same experience

It's taken myself 4 years of three monthly visits to get to the stage where my bottom teeth can be treated without complete numbing. The top teeth will always need numbing. But that's an improvement on the complete sedation that used to be required

So you have no pain, thats not to say someone else doesn't and trying to belittle them as your posting comes across, you just belittle yourself

I think that was a slight over-reaction. She only asked a question.

notanothernumpty

Ive had a massive phobia about seeing a dentist for years.
So i never visited a dentist for 37 years.( im 48)

Last year i had toothache soo bad i finally plucked up the courage (well i sort of had to as the pain was unbearable) to go and see someone.
Ive had a discoloured front crown and a broken front tooth since i was 11.
I needed a tooth out,which i had done there and then (ahh no more pain!) It was so different to how i remembered a dentists.
The guy who treated me couldnt have been nicer and put me right at ease.

I went back twice more and got all my cosmetic work done and im so glad i did,i now cant believe how stupid i was not to go and have my teeth checked out regularly.

The dentist i saw was just one i randomly picked out-so i guess they are all the same.
So definately dont be scared to go,and,tell the dentist your worried (i did and the guy was just brilliant with me)

Hope this helps...:D

System

I wonder if something like this would be more useful, to clean that bit of tooth along the gumline, where the plaque seems to build up
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CTS-Super-Interspace/dp/B0085AORC4/ref=pd_sim_d_3
It seems a gentler alternative than the scrapers!

I don't really get much build-up on my teeth, but sometimes I am aware of brushing quite vigorously to get rid of it and I think it's making my gums recede a bit in the process.

suki1964

nickyhutch wrote: »

I think that was a slight over-reaction. She only asked a question.

Well that informative post added to your post count at least


For those who can't understand how seeing a hygeinist can be painful, let me tell you about dentine hypersensitivity, which I have and so do so many others

If like me you suffer, cold air, hot drinks, sugar, all hurt in everyday life.we cope with sensitive toothpaste used daily and applied around very sensitive areas. Now go see a dentist and have high speed tools used, all requiring cold water or air, and you are looking at a scene from marathon man. Every jet of water or blast of cold air is hitting exposed nerves. It's pure agony.

And the only cure is the treatment which for some patients is continuous.

Patients who haven't been to a dentist in years, have build up of tarter will also no doubt have receding gums and gum disease, no doubt leading to dentine hypersensitivity.. I have a very high pain threshold but I can't believe anyone can take the pain of cold water or jets of air on exposed nerves

So I hope that's answered those who don't see how a hygienist visit is painful and is so totally scary for a dental phobic