How Medicines Affect Oral Health
Your medicine list is often the most explanatory part of the picture in your mouth.
Dry mouth: the commonest and quietest effect
Some blood pressure, antidepressant, allergy and bladder medicines reduce saliva flow. Saliva does more than moisten: it buffers acid, carries mineral and cleans surfaces. When flow drops all three weaken at once, and the result is typical — rapid decay at the gum margin and root surfaces, burning, difficulty speaking and poorly seating dentures.
What to tell your dentist
- Every prescribed medicine you take regularly
- Any blood thinner or anticoagulant
- Medicines or injections used for bone loss
- Chemotherapy, radiotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment
- Supplements, herbal products and vitamins
- Any known drug allergies
If you take a blood thinner
The commonest mistake before an extraction is stopping the medicine on your own a few days beforehand, which brings back the very risk it was prescribed for. Most routine dental procedures can be done safely without stopping it, using local measures to control bleeding. Only the prescribing doctor can decide on any change.
Getting Here, Booking and Emergencies from Bogazkent
Route, booking and emergency arrangements for patients from Bogazkent.
Getting here from Bogazkent
Boğazkent lies in the Serik district of Antalya; Serik is an outlying district near the centre, about 42 kilometres from the clinic. We also see patients from neighbouring areas that share the route from Bogazkent, such as Bilginler, Çakallık, Dorumlar, Hacıosmanlar. You can ask for the location on WhatsApp when travelling from Bogazkent.
Appointments for Bogazkent
If you say you are coming from Boğazkent when you book, procedures are combined and examination, radiographs and treatment are usually completed the same day. As with patients from Serik generally, appointments for families from Bogazkent can be scheduled consecutively.
Emergencies from Bogazkent
Coming from Boğazkent at night is quicker than by day once the roads clear; call as you set out and you will receive first-aid guidance on the phone. For patients coming from Dental Clinic in Bogazkent, the clinic is open 24/7 and in an emergency the order is set by severity rather than arrival time. For spreading facial swelling, difficulty swallowing or breathing, or toothache with fever, go to the nearest emergency department.
What to Do When a Filling or Crown Comes Out
A filling or crown coming out is usually painless, so it gets put off. But unprotected tooth structure deteriorates quickly, and within a few weeks a simple repair can turn into extensive treatment.
What to do in the first 24 hours
The aim is to protect the tooth until the appointment:
- Clean the cavity gently with warm salt water so no food remains
- Do not chew on that side; a sharp edge cuts the tongue and cheek
- Keep the crown that came out — if intact it can be recemented
- A temporary filling material from a pharmacy is fine for a few days
- Do not pack it with gum or glue; that risks infection
Why it should not wait
The dentine beneath a filling is far softer than enamel and decays rapidly once exposed. At the same time the unsupported walls fracture under chewing force. Where a crown has come off, within days the neighbouring and opposing teeth drift toward the space; the old crown no longer seats and a new one has to be made.
The reason it came out matters
A filling or crown does not simply fall out; there is a reason beneath it. The most common is marginal decay — the cement is sound but the tooth it held onto has decayed. Other causes are clenching, sitting high in the bite, and a fractured wall. If the cause is not addressed the replacement comes out the same way.
