Esto no son caries... O sí — Transcript

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1. 0:00These here are not cavities. Well, they
2. 0:02really are arrested or incipient
3. 0:04cavities, stopped cavities. What do I
4. 0:06mean? That it started as a cavity but
5. 0:09the process stopped and now it's just
6. 0:11on pause. Meaning, it is not affecting
7. 0:13the tooth, it is not growing, it can
8. 0:15stay stopped for life without
9. 0:16increasing. How do we tell them apart?
10. 0:19Usually, arrested or stopped or
11. 0:21incipient cavities are brownish or
12. 0:23whitish and when we dentists analyze or
13. 0:25check them, the tissue is usually very
14. 0:28hard. With these cavities, what we
15. 0:31usually do is monitor them to make sure
16. 0:33they don't grow or start to become
17. 0:35active again. Fluoride treatments can
18. 0:38even be done to strengthen the enamel
19. 0:39so they don't reactivate. When it is an
20. 0:43actual cavity, what we see is a much
21. 0:45darker tissue and usually, to the touch
22. 0:47, it can even be a bit softer. That is
23. 0:50when we must treat the cavity because
24. 0:51it is in an active process and if not,
25. 0:53it will continue to grow and affect
26. 0:54even the inner tissue of the tooth. If
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