The main problem

One of the main problems with the ever more difficult medicine of today is good information.
Most attempts at explanation are not understood or poorly executed, obviously due to time constraints. Moreover, specialized Latin (and sometimes English!) terminology does not aid understanding. We wish to inform YOU correctly – this description is a way to achieve that!

Our method
Informing patients and, in this sense, complete transparency of work procedures is our highest priority, so that our patients are well informed both during and after treatment. We have made it our task to go beyond the usual methods. By "usual" we refer to the fact that the majority of people over fifty who live in the industrialized countries today carry prostheses.

Change requires, on the one hand, reorienting one's attitude as a patient and taking preventive action - frequently go to the dentist for a check-up, instead of waiting for pain to come! Why not make dentures stay durable well into old age, without any extra financial expenditure!

How? It makes no difference to your wallet whether you spend large sums every few years on artificial dentures, or a small amount each year on prophylactic treatment.

The fear
Most of you are acquainted with the fear of dental treatment; this can often be traced back to traumatic childhood experiences. These fears last into adult age, which is why a dentist is usually only visited in an emergency, due to constant pain. The hurt tooth often cannot be saved, and must be removed. The consequence is that tooth condition continues to deteriorate and finally requires removable artificial dentures. This entails large losses: solid food can no longer be chewed correctly, the sense of taste diminishes, the stomach and small intestine are overloaded during digestion - general well-being diminishes substantially.

Bad teeth
Very often, the formation of teeth is innately false and there is the related problem of "perpetually bad teeth". The usual accumulation of diseased teeth can be attributed to most people’s faith in wrong and often insufficient oral hygiene. Families "pass on" bad habits!

It is important to be well-informed about the emergence of dental illnesses, as well as tooth retention in discussions with a dentist, and to learn about effective oral hygiene techniques. Only effective oral hygiene lets you stop or at least significantly slow down progressive tooth decay. Remember: lost tooth material must be replaced by technical restoration, which unfortunately is not nearly as resistant as the original tooth and requires even better care.

Amalgam is a material which is durable and easy to work on. Unfortunately, this alloy (= combination of different metals) also contains MERCURY. The amalgam fillings leak out this heavy metal to the body in small quantities, where it collects in connective tissue over decades and in nerve and/or brain cells etc. as it is only processed very slowly by the body. Sadly enough, our food also shows traces of this metal (milk, meat and often fish!).

The symptoms of mercury poisoning are diverse. Due to different mental as well as genetic factors, the manifestation of the disease differs individually, which also applies to the outbreak of complaints: healthy individuals are capable of withstanding it much longer; dramatic personal changes may affect it.

Some dentists will show you basic studies proving that the quantities of mercury fillings do not exceed the limits defined by the WHO (World Health Organization). However, studies also exist which paint a more serious picture of amalgam fillings. The fact is: The Austrian Ministry of Health recommends: ... do not use amalgam fillings for children and pregnant women, but... - use alternative tooth reconstruction methods.
We hold the view that not even small doses of mercury should be allowed in YOUR body!

A further disadvantage of amalgam is age-related "creeping":
the volume of amalgam fillings slowly decreases over the years. Thus, amalgam fillings "creep" off the tooth. The result is a dark-black gap, which represents a slip angle for bacteria which cause cavities and parodontosis. Usually, this process ends in the need for a crown. There is also the possibility that the patient may only feel pain if the cavity concerned is near the "tooth nerve". In this case, a root canal must be performed. If this treatment is not carried out adequately, tooth extraction may still be necessary after several years.

Removal of amalgam nowadays must be accomplished using the "Kofferdam method" (click to enlarge the pic) and using a specific "sucking device", in order to bind mercury steams as well as bind mercury rapidly in the amalgam separation devices of the dental operation unit.

Note: we do not recommend using plastic fillings for molars!
However, they do have many advantages, especially a short treatment time. Durability is not as high as that of amalgam, although available products are getting better and better. But the organic solvents, monomers and chemicals contained in plastic are not at all as healthy and biologically harmless as the industry suggests. In some cases we can observe a hypersensitivity of the teeth: some patients react badly. Furthermore, all plastic wadding which fights contraction (= reduction of volume) suffers in production. Contraction may open small unseen columns between tooth and filling, from the start in rare cases. If the patient leaves the dental practice with this new plastic filling, they sometimes already have a gap under it, which causes the next cavity. The dentist cannot prevent this effect, even with very careful and expensive engineering work, because the success of the procedure is not controllable. The press - influenced by the industry through ads - does not report such cases, so general knowledge is very limited. Many patients are misled by the white color of the plastic, thinking that what looks like tooth substance must be healthy and harmless. Cosmetically, plastic certainly is more beautiful, but it does have disadvantages. Television documentation and articles will undoubtedly report this in coming years...

Due to the problems with this material, plastics are not recommended for use in side teeth in the Viennese University hospital. We adhere to this recommendation, but still keep up to date by continuous further training in dental medicine and will of course adopt any reasonable new procedure.

In our surgery, the patient first learns to correctly brush their teeth in the context of a reconstruction of the parodonts (tooth retention apparatus). We also improve the patient’s "actual condition" and examine the success of this at regular intervals. Excessively frequent and/or faulty cleaning of teeth is harmful, as proper cleaning twice a day is completely sufficient – what counts is not the quantity, but the quality of cleaning!

Parallel to this, a basic reconstruction starts. This covers a set of dental measures e.g. the exchange of leaky fillings, correction of insufficient root treatments, removal of cysts, fissure sealing etc. Only after completion of this basic reconstruction and with optimal oral hygiene can technical work (artificial denture therapy) begin according to functionally aesthetic guidelines.

The first goal of this elaborate therapy is to let patients keep their own teeth up to an advanced age. New technical work only makes sense after optimal reconstruction of dentures. The patient is informed about all treatment steps and can follow these by means of mirrors, because complete transparency is an important principle at Denta beauté.

We offer the whole Spectrum of dentistry – Surgery, Implantology, Prothetics, Endodontology, Dental orthopaedics, Periodontology – if needed your therapy plan will be combined with other disciplines.

In general:
The terms parodontopathy and parodontosis are derived from the word "parodont", which refers to the tooth retention apparatus, i.e. the anchoring system of the tooth in the bone. It consists of gums, bone, periodontal ligaments and root cement. The correct medical term for all inflammatory illnesses of the parodonts, which can occur in all age groups and in different forms, is "parodontopathy". They can cause various forms of rapid and deep tooth socket destruction accompanied by tooth loss. The general linguistic term often used but medically incorrect is "parodontosis" - this only suggests a degenerative illness;

however "parodontosis" is an inflammation of the parodonts. As the illnesses of the tooth retention apparatus can be divided into several different causes according to their emergence, as well as the diseased-anatomical changes the lead to, the general designation of parodontopathy is the most meaningful and most detailed medically.

The causes of parodontopathy are triggered inflammatory reactions of the gums, caused by plaque bacteria, which lie above and below the edge of gum. Malfunctions in the chewing system, disturbances in general metabolism, stress, alcohol as well as nicotine abuse and mechanical traumas (e.g. accidents) can have an adverse effect on the progress of the disease. As is the case of cavities, which involve sugar-splitting and acid-producing bacteria, plaque bacteria also increase during inflammations of the tooth retention apparatus. Parodontopathy is mentioned with the exception of various acute gum seam inflammations: gingivitis, usually a chronic illness. This does not however exclude the fact that they re-appear periodically i.e. become acute. As mentioned above, inflammation constitutes over 90% of all cases of parodontopathy and can occur repeatedly. This means that gingivitis, which is considered to be the most frequent inflammation in the human body, is always a preliminary stage of parodontosis.

This chronic general form, which occurs most frequently, causes no (or only few) symptoms. Some patients do not exhibit gum bleeding, while others do. Many patients start brushing their teeth less frequently, from fear of renewed bleeding, which unfortunately only promotes the progress of parodontopathy. With the advance of the illness, a painless, unnoticeable loss of the dental supporting fabric, the symptoms of the later stages mentioned (such as tooth mobility, direct tooth migration and loosening of teeth) alert the patient to the parodontosis. Hyperplasia, accumulations of surpluses in the fabric, along with inflammation-free gum decrease or acute festering processes are the symptoms recognizable to the patient. Some patients themselves also register an altered, very specific, occasionally somewhat "sweet" mouth odor, which is often an indication of bag formation and/or bacterial increase. In most cases, only a dentist can recognize the symptoms of a tooth socket illness during an examination.Signs of an inflammatory change in the gums, the forerunner of bag formation and bone dismantling, are reddish, swollen and especially easily bleeding mucous membrane areas. The taut, chain-like accumulation at the tooth as well as the pink, easy-to-spot, even surface, which constitutes health gums, are missing. Other changes are often collections of cracks or the appearance of crude edges in the gum seam.

The dentist starts an anamnesis focused particularly on the parodont for a complete diagnosis. Detailed questioning and various tests concerning habits and gum condition, which give information on unwanted plaque accumulation and bleeding inclination, are inevitable for making a diagnostic identification. A sounding of the area between tooth and gums provides information about intensity, depth and degree of inflammation of the existing gum bags. If necessary, a saliva test can be used to determine the type of germs in the gum bags. Radiographs show the type and extent of bone dismantling, disturbed fields underneath the mucous membrane e.g. in the form of deposits (concrements), clarify supernatant edges of crowns etc. and give indications as to whether it is worthwhile to save the tooth. We - and you! – can thus find out the type and degree of parodontopathy.

We are located in the 19th district of Vienna.
Please click the plan to enlarge the plan to find the way to us.

If you are using public transport:
Go to subway/underground Nr 6 or 4 (U4 or U6) to station “Spittelau”
or go to subway/underground Nr 6 (U6) to station “Nussdorf”
from this point you will have about 10 min to walk (click the plan)