What are the precautions to take before seeing a dentist?

As the saying goes, “You don’t fight an unprepared battle.” Everything is prepared in advance. Dental care is no exception, generally need to do the following points of preparation. 1, to eat a good breakfast before seeing a doctor, except for special laboratory tests, need to fasting blood draw, generally should eat a good breakfast to go. Some people do not eat breakfast after waking up because of toothache, and then rush to the hospital by squeezing the public bus. Just sitting on the dental chair, see the dentist pick up the dental instruments, it produces nervousness, as a result, some patients appear head sweating, cold fingers, and even have the hypoglycemic symptoms of delirium. This is mainly a hunger, two tired, three scared caused by. 2, brush your teeth before going to the dentist, do not go to the dentist after eating, with a mouth full of food residue. This has two disadvantages: (1) when the dentist examines the teeth, first to spend time to remove the food debris accumulated on the teeth, in order to see the situation of the teeth; (2) generally speaking, the dentist to see a cleaner mouth, the heart is always more comfortable, but also convenient to do some examination and treatment. Especially to remind those who love to eat raw garlic, etc., with a special smell of food, before seeing the dentist, must not eat such food, so as not to cause unpleasant to the dentist. 3, dressed appropriately to see the dentist, we do not require as some important occasions, wearing expensive clothing, but also can not be too casual, wearing a sweatshirt undershirt. Rather, the general requirement is to dress appropriately, neat and generous. Although a breast scarf will be put around during the treatment, it is always unpleasant in your heart in case you accidentally dirty your expensive clothing when rinsing, rinsing, or spitting. It is worth noting that some ladies should not wear heavy makeup. 4, prepare a good medical history and condition information, see the dental doctor always have to ask your medical history and condition, combined with a variety of tests, in order to make a correct diagnosis and give appropriate treatment. The medical history is how long you have had the disease; the condition is what symptoms you have, or uncomfortable situation. Now take toothache as an example, you should generally state the following questions: which part of the body hurts? Is the pain spontaneous or irritating? Is it a continuous pain or paroxysmal pain? Is it a mild vague pain or a severe pain? How long has the toothache been present? When describing the medical history, it is required to answer the questions concisely and accurately without exaggerating or narrowing down, in accordance with the doctor’s instructions. 5. Know a little about the hospital’s dental triage. With the continuous development of dentistry, in the larger dental hospitals, the subspecialties are becoming more and more detailed, for the general public, it is a bit like the two fathomless, they do not know which specialist number should be registered. Now the general subspecialty of the dental hospital or dental specialist center, the following is a brief introduction. (1) Endodontics: mainly dental diseases, such as caries (commonly known as tooth decay), endodontic disease, periapical disease, and discolored teeth or teeth with defects, as well as cosmetic bleaching teeth, etc. (2) Periodontal mucosal disease department: It mainly looks at the diseases of periodontal and mucosal tissues, such as gingivitis, periodontitis, oral mucosal disease, etc. They are mainly characterized by red and swollen gums, easy bleeding, loose teeth, and ulcers on the oral mucosa. The treatment means lies in cleaning the mouth, anti-inflammatory, various periodontal surgical treatment, and the usual internal therapy of taking medicine and injections. (3) Pediatric dentistry: It can be simply understood as the treatment of oral diseases exclusively for children and adolescents. But also has its own characteristics, such as children and adolescents are in the growth and development period, in addition to the physiological, anatomical and pathological characteristics, children also have important psychological characteristics, generally have a heavy fear of psychology. How to obtain the cooperation of children is the key to the quality of diagnosis and treatment, please parents according to the requirements of doctors, close cooperation. (4) Oral and frontal surgery: The main focus is on inflammation, trauma, deformity, tumor and other diseases of the collar and face, and the main feature is the surgical treatment of various diseases (including tooth extraction). Some patients also need to be hospitalized. (5) Prosthodontics: mainly to see the missing teeth, repair missing teeth, including full dentures and partial dentures, in partial dentures, can be divided into movable dentures and fixed dentures, according to the need and possible to design the production of dentures. (6) Orthodontics: It mainly looks at patients whose teeth are not aligned properly and require correction. Its characteristics are to meet the cosmetic requirements of patients to a large extent, in addition to restoring the function of biting teeth together, and the course of treatment is longer. (7) Oral preventive health care department: mainly for people with healthy oral cavity, regular oral health examination and oral health education, taking various preventive measures (including application of various fluoride caries prevention methods, sulcus closure, preventive scaling, etc.) to prevent the occurrence of diseases. Sometimes we also do some simple treatment work of common oral diseases by the way to facilitate patients. (8) Oral auxiliary departments: mainly include oral radiology department (taking various X-ray films), oral examination department, oral histopathology department and oral mechanic’s office, etc. Patients usually go to the relevant oral auxiliary departments only after seeing the above departments and according to the doctor’s suggestion.