2024
How to Do Dental Care at Home?
Fluoride toothpaste at 1,000 to 1,500 ppm reduces caries increment with high to moderate certainty; for flossing and gingivitis the certainty is low.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval
// Mosdent JournalFrom the Pens
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The Impact of Stress on Your Oral Health and How to Manage It
A meta-analysis of 14 studies put the pooled odds ratio for stress and periodontitis at 1.78. Here is how stress reaches the mouth and what interrupts it.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval5 min
// Aesthetic
How Aesthetic Dentistry Can Boost Your Self-Confidence
A review of 33 articles found a moderate impact of oro-facial appearance on quality of life, and veneers survived at 99% when preparation stayed in enamel.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval6 min
Overcoming Dental Anxiety: How Mosdent Reduces Stress
Dental anxiety is common and treatable: global prevalence is 15.3% in a meta-analysis of 72,577 adults, and cognitive behavioural therapy has trial support.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval4 min
// Aesthetic
Teeth Whitening: Methods, Sensitivity and Longevity
Teeth whitening lightens enamel and dentine with peroxide gels; in 12 trials, adding in-office to home bleaching raised sensitivity without improving colour.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval7 min
// Aesthetic
What Helps Toothache at Home?
Home measures buy time and do not treat the cause. Learn what genuinely helps toothache until you are seen, and what makes things worse.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval8 min
// Aesthetic
Is Prepless Laminate Treatment Truly Pain-Free?
In 580 porcelain laminate veneers followed up to 12 years, survival was 99 percent when preparation stayed in enamel. What prepless can and cannot correct.
HK
Dr Hakan Kaval3 min
// Root Canal
How Long Does Endodontic Treatment Take in Turkey?
A Cochrane review of 47 studies found no difference in radiological failure between single-visit and multiple-visit endodontic treatment.
AÇ
Dr Anıl Çetin, PhD4 min
// Gums
How Can You Prevent and Treat Gum Diseases Effectively?
The burden is large: 1.1 billion prevalent cases of severe periodontitis worldwide in 2019. Treatment is mechanical first; across 28 studies systemic antibiotics added roughly 0.45 mm of extra pocket depth reduction, with more adverse events. What prevention actually consists of.
FK
Dr Ferit Kaval, PhD5 min