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The stress is purely for the teeth!

post blogged on Christian Krischer dental technician of dentistry from Hirschaid puraDent, courtesy of proDente eV

When we think of our teeth, we think mostly spontaneously Keywords caries and sugar one. There are many more factors that stress the teeth ' and damage them permanently. Here's an overview:
smoking can wiggle the teeth
Hardly a patient knows: who smokes daily over a long period of time up to ten cigarettes has, according to recent research, on average, a three-fold increased risk of periodontitis. The destroyed immune system of the oral cavity caused deeper "pockets" in the gums, a greater reduction of the jaw bone and significantly worse prognosis. Unlike in non-smokers to stay out of early warning signs of periodontal disease in smokers, such as bleeding gums and pain. In addition, an increased risk of developing oral cancer, with smokers on up to four times compared to non smokers. With the simultaneous consumption of alcohol, this risk even when up to fifteen times.

If the toothbrush to the "weapon" is
Heavy cigarette smoking is a stress factor for the teeth - the rough handling of the toothbrush another. Muscle games are inappropriate when brushing your teeth. To confuse the morning cleaning teeth with bodybuilding and scrub vigorously promotes the degradation of the hard tooth substance. Also incorrect brushing technique leads to these undesirable side effects. Simultaneously with intensive scrubbing and the gums are damaged.

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A typical example of a not based on bacterial degradation of the tooth: the enamel by acidic food is softened and therefore vulnerable. A delicious green apple is one example of the food that cause an acidic environment in the mouth. To avoid that after eating an apple the softened tooth enamel is removed, you should wait before brushing the teeth for about one hour. You can also use preventive fluoride toothpaste or fluoride preparations are applied directly with a thin protective layer on the tooth surface. In addition to other acidic fruits include apples, lemon soda, fruit juices, vinegar or yogurt to acidic foods.

Bulimia damages the teeth
Another cause of an acidic environment in the mouth can be frequent vomiting. This is for example in the case of bulimia. By the vomiting bulimic patients, the teeth are exposed to very often the strong acidity of the stomach. The oral cavity is significantly more acidic than in healthy people. The consequences show up in a short time: the cutting edges of the front and canine teeth in the mandible typical wells on exhibit. After two years in the upper jaw large changes observed especially at the front teeth: In the advanced stage can occur even to the shortening of the cutting edges.

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PuraDent TOPIC: Stress hurts your teeth - teeth as a stress barometer

relaxation techniques for chronic toothache

post blogged on Christian Krischer dental technician of dentistry from Hirschaid puraDent have kindly supported by the proDente eV

tooth pain is not always a physical cause - often plays the psyche a big role. Affected patients complain of persistent pain, which is to stress or tension in the private or professional life due. The seemingly inexplicable
tooth pain often in the mucous membrane or directly from the tooth out. Sometimes the pain radiates but also over the whole face. An important role at such psychosomatic toothache pain memory plays in the brain. There is often a trigger - for example, a new prosthesis. "Comes through an increased focus on the prosthesis to keep the pain," said proDente expert and dentist Dr. Rüdiger Butz.
Often, but also acute pain of the trigger. The brain registers the pain even then, if the cause is eliminated. If pain after a root canal treatment of the same tooth or the next tooth, then this is an indication that the pain has not only organic causes.
If stress makes you sick teeth and muscles
Many pain patients have an increased strain on the muscles of mastication. By pressing or grinding of teeth at night then give rise to diffuse head and neck pain. "In order to protect the teeth, the patient wears a plastic splint at night," said Dr. Butz. To ensure that only the possible harmful effects are avoided, the tension remains.
a patient complains of persistent toothache, the dentist in a larger study will first rule out any physical causes before he seeks psychological backgrounds. Thus, diffuse pain in the mouth and jaw area also have orthopedic causes. However, when stress and tension suggested that help relaxation techniques like muscle relaxation or biofeedback Jacobsen method. "Depending on the extent of a psychotherapeutic treatment may even be necessary," says Dr. Butz.

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[WIP] Talk to me - A little Arduino project.

(Last edit: 28.10.2010)
(Note: This is currently really only a very short guide I can expand at a later date hopefully)

I recently purchased an Arduino board. Since I had also an LCD, I also wanted to work with.

After some training I was also, for example, "Sending texts via serial port to the Arduino board. Since the idea was already there: do not send me messages over the Internet to the LCD.


the idea is not new, I've seen this somewhere once. However, I wanted to try it again.

Since I have no Ethernet Shield, the board must remain on the PC via USB, communication takes place via serial interface. The Board must therefore depend on the USB all the time.

I actually work on my document would work, only a (very short) presentation:

What is required?

hardware

First you need a board. I use the Arduino Duemilanove. Who uses the older Diecimila is even better off - see below why. Furthermore
need an LCD (any work should, if it can be controlled by liquid crystal-library), possibly a diode (I have here a 1N4007).

A potentiometer for contrast adjustment should also be present.

Who has a board with auto reset, also needs a 110 ~ 120 Ohm resistor. (2x 220 Ohm parallel do it too).

(edit, 09/09/2010)

Fritzing was thanks to you I can make my circuit available:

for the construction of the circuit as seen above.
Furthermore, I refer here to http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/LiquidCrystal and http://www.ladyada.net/learn/lcd/charlcd.html . Read the pinout of the LCD in any case the sheet.

Mine LCD tolerate example, only 4.2 volts at the input of the backlight pins. Therefore, I need the diode to runterzubekommen the voltage from 5V to 4.3V. (If you wish, you can also build a voltage divider with a second pot, so you can adjust the brightness).

Revisited Auto Reset: If you by echo data to / dev/ttyUSB0 sent to reset the board, the result is that the message at the end is not displayed on the LCD. Therefore, the reset pin must have a 110 ohm resistance is connected to 5V. If the resistance is larger, the board resets anyway, it is smaller, you may zerschießt your board (thanks to the folks at arduino.cc Forum)

This naturally leads to the fact that Arduino (IDE) for programming the board not reset automatically. So the resistance in programming or remove manually reset. (. Anyway I have to remove the 5V plug-in programming since the programmer is not otherwise available)

As noted above, the older Diecimila not have a car and do not need the reset.

software

I report here only on Linux. I have no idea how to directly send data grouped into Windows COM port via the command line. VII. so what can someone help. Furthermore, it should
on your PC to a web server with PHP support have. I've run here Lampp.
Arduino development environment should be installed if you know how, you can also rumhacken directly in Emacs, all by avr-gcc compile and burn it with avrdude (Arduino development environment does nothing).

Here is the code of the sketch: http://c.pastebin.com/niFH8DSC
I'm here with my 16x2 LCD pin configuration. How the LCD object must be initialized, is also on the arduino.cc page.
If you have a 4-line LCD, you can customize the source code of course.

Bash script: http://pastebin.com/aLSvEgEt
The Bash script checks the text file in which the messages are written using PHP.
The bash script might have to be supplemented, so that at the beginning of / dev / port with ttyUSB a baud is initialized from 9600th Use the command

stty-F / dev/ttyUSB0 9600

will be executed first. Incorrect baud out anyway to the wrong character on the display

Finally, check the pages for the web server:
Form: http://pastebin.com/Lw1qv8bp
And the page that processes the data: http:// pastebin.com/y84K80Zx

It is recommended if necessary to protect the form with a Captcha or install other protective measures. Contain solutions, it can happen that one will zugespammt. With curl it is possible, data on forms (both POST and GET) to send.

If I have forgotten in my hurry what, just be happy ^ ^
Here is a picture of the result. Here you can also see something of the same wiring, the + pin is 5V, the pin to GND logically

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puraDent TOPIC: Stress hurts your teeth - grinding needs to be treated!

10% of Germans gnashing of teeth

post blogged on Christian Krischer dental technician of dentistry from Hirschaid puraDent, courtesy of proDente eV

grudgingly take out something - this old descriptive phrase taken bt ¬ ¬ end a phenomenon which many people suffer from: bruxism. At night, literally chews problems over and over again performed ¬. Often, you notice the activities Sleep only when the teeth are suffering under it and show strong signs of wear or when the crunch caused by the pain of tension headaches and neck muscles unexpected ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ be sluggish Lich. Dr. M. Oliver Ahlers from the Institute of dental functional diagnostics, temporomandibular joint and interdisciplinary pain therapy CMDcentrum Hamburg-Eppendorf clarified in discussion with proDente on the causes, consequences and treatments.
What are the causes of bruxism?
bruxism can have various causes. These include the current state:
excessive stress and other psychological problems: these lead to "nibble" and "clench the teeth."
disorders The occlusion of the teeth: they are enhanced muscle activity, "answered".
orthopedic problems such as poor posture and dysfunction of the cervical spine: these lead to increased muscular activity during the day, which can become independent and so at night leads to excessive muscle tension.

How many people are estimated to be affected? To distinguish
here are milder forms of nocturnal teeth grinding, and severe cases with consequences such as mouth opening limitations and chronic pain. Depending on the data base and target the numbers vary between 5% and 50%. But one can assume that about 10% of the population requiring treatment such as fluorescent.

is "crunch" a long-term phenomenon or hear it after a certain time again?
at how other behavior-related problems also occur when the teeth gnashing over the various forms. These are, of course together with the already mentioned various causes. So we do not see a few cases in which patients gnashing of teeth - such as after a period of acute stress, such as an exam - to set the teeth grinding again. On the other hand, there are unfortunately cases in which the initial habit grows into a difficult to control disease and is not overcome without help. In our CMD-hours at the Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, I have treated many patients whose pain was so bad that you no longer want to live no immediate help.

What damage can result from grinding? Here one must distinguish between
clenching and grinding. The difference is important, arise because the pressing Although adverse changes in the muscles, the teeth but first get away "scot-free." When grinding the tooth structure lost by attrition partly so solid, is that the debate is permanently impaired and that the jaw position changes.
addition to the grinding slightly damaged the edges of fillings, which promotes the development of caries.
come in both cases added changes in the muscles, which is "trained" in terms of uncontrolled bodybuilding. Since it is a real easy-to-muscle pain, which unfortunately are often very late to their root cause assigned.
clinical studies from Japan, we also know that by night clenching and grinding of the modification of the chewing surfaces to increases in blood pressure, insomnia and even changes of brain activity may occur. The symptoms of the subjects were so strong that it broke off the head of the study before the end. Even without such sophisticated testing, we see but in the CMD-hours patients who have taken longer due to untreated teeth grinding and gnashing of massive damage to the jaw joints like this. How

treated teeth grinding?

Treating clenching and grind depends on the particular individual causes. These are different in each case, so should any individual be considered individually. The working group for diagnosis and treatment (afdt) of the German Society for Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (DGZMK) has published a number of published scientific opinions. These are up to date and pretend to be followed which sequence of studies today in the normal case, and what treatments are applied on this basis, in what order.

These comments are updated every three years is for all dentists - but also for interested patients - to load the Internet at www.AFDT.de free download.
To put it briefly: Prior to any therapy always be a diagnosis. The focus is on the "Clinical functional analysis." It is accompanied by an instrumental function analysis, in certain cases by the consiliary Examination by a specialized orthopedic and / or doctor for psychosomatic medicine.
is time in therapy at the start of treatment with customized splints (occlusal splints). Further treatment is then determined by the individual results of the first phase of treatment and is therefore very different.