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  2. Tooth decay - Wikipedia

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    The teeth most likely affected are the maxillary anterior teeth, but all teeth can be affected. [95] The name for this type of caries comes from the fact that the decay usually is a result of allowing children to fall asleep with sweetened liquids in their bottles or feeding children sweetened liquids multiple times during the day.

  3. Periodontal disease - Wikipedia

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    This section from a panoramic X-ray film depicts the teeth of the lower left quadrant, exhibiting generalized severe bone loss of 30–80%. The red line depicts the existing bone level, whereas the yellow line depicts where the gingiva was located originally (1–2 mm above the bone), prior to the person developing periodontal disease.

  4. Tooth Pain: Symptoms, Risks, and What to Do If You Have ...

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    Aching teeth are one of the few health complaints that follow you through life. You don’t remember your first toothache, but your parent might. Later, your baby teeth fell out and adult teeth ...

  5. Toothache - Wikipedia

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    When toothache results from dental trauma (regardless of the exact pulpal or periodontal diagnosis), the treatment and prognosis is dependent on the extent of damage to the tooth, the stage of development of the tooth, the degree of displacement or, when the tooth is avulsed, the time out of the socket and the starting health of the tooth and ...

  6. Meth mouth - Wikipedia

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    Further, a common side effect of stimulant drugs is xerostomia, which accelerates tooth decay. [2] As of 2012, methamphetamine is the most discussed illegal drug in dental literature for its extensive effect on users' dental health. [3] The teeth of some methamphetamine users appear to be dark and extensively eroded. [4]

  7. Radium jaw - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms are necrosis of the mandible (lower jawbone) and the maxilla (upper jaw), constant bleeding of the gums, and (usually) after some time, severe distortion due to bone tumors and porosity of the lower jaw. Symptoms also include soreness throughout the body, significant decrease in body weight and loss of teeth.

  8. Rotten, cracked, falling out: What are dreams about teeth ...

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    A cracked tooth can be fixed; a rotten tooth has to be removed for the mouth to remove to a state of well-being. If the tooth is rotten, reflect on what is rotting in your life to return to well ...

  9. Gingival recession - Wikipedia

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    Gum recession is a common problem in adults over the age of 40, but it may also occur starting in adolescence, or around the age of 10. It may exist with or without concomitant decrease in crown-to-root ratio (recession of alveolar bone ). 85% of the world population has gingival recession on at least one tooth with denuded root surface ≥1.0 ...