Although there are many general oral treatment schemes available, ozone therapy is often the most commonly used one. In order to help people understand why ozone therapy is so popular, we will carefully study what ozone therapy is, how it works and the benefits it brings to patients.
What is ozone therapy?
Ozone therapy uses ozone produced by natural oxygen. Ozone has been proved to have many functions, from increasing blood flow and strengthening human immune system to promoting healing time and disinfection. It has also been proved that it can remineralize the enamel of teeth, thus strengthening teeth and possibly reversing the early signs of tooth decay.
There are many different ways to use ozone therapy in stomatology. The first and most common method is to use ozone gas. Gas is easily inhaled. When ozone treatment is used, it will be directly applied to the local affected area for disinfection.
Other forms of ozone therapy are not widely used, but they are sometimes used in general oral practice, including dissolving ozone in water or oil.
Benefits of ozone therapy
Using ozone therapy as part of dental care procedures will bring many benefits to patients, including:
◎ Painful and intensive dental surgery can be avoided. Ozone therapy can help strengthen teeth and treat many dental problems without long-term intensive dental surgery.
◎ Help patients solve the problem of dentin hypersensitivity. Many times, patients with dentin hypersensitivity are forced to "learn to endure", but ozone therapy can sometimes strengthen the enamel on teeth, which may help reduce the sensitivity of teeth.
◎ If deep dental surgery is needed, the healing time can be shortened. If complicated dental surgery is really needed, ozone therapy can help speed up the healing time.
◎ Improve the success rate of root canal therapy. Ozone therapy can remove harmful bacteria from teeth that need root canal treatment. Using ozone therapy to further disinfect serious dental caries, dentists have improved the potential success rate of root canal treatment.
◎ Ozone therapy is a safe alternative therapy for some types of infections. Dentists can use ozone therapy instead of antibiotics to treat some infections.
◎ Ozone therapy is an option for rapid dental treatment. Some dental treatments require multiple visits. Ozone therapy can solve some of the same dental problems in one treatment.
When does the dentist use ozone therapy?
Dentists can use ozone therapy to assist many common dental procedures, thus incorporating ozone therapy into patients' dental care procedures. Some situations where ozone therapy can help solve dental problems include:
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◎ Gum disease or periodontal disease/problem
◎ Infection of gums, mouth or teeth.
◎ Strengthen teeth and minimize dentine hypersensitivity.
◎ Reversing the early signs of tooth decay
◎ Treat any tooth decay that may have formed.
Remarks: This abstract is translated from foreign papers.