Can Early Decay Be Reversed?
A tooth is in constant balance, losing and regaining mineral; decay is that balance being lost.
Demineralisation and remineralisation
Bacteria produce acid from sugar, dissolving mineral from the enamel; saliva then neutralises the acid and returns calcium and phosphate. The two alternate all day, and the problem arises when sugar exposure becomes frequent enough that saliva cannot keep up.
The white spot lesion — the window for reversal
As mineral loss reaches a certain level the surface becomes matt and appears as a chalky white spot — the earliest visible stage, with the surface still intact. No filling is needed here: fluoride, better plaque control and less frequent sugar can halt it. Once the surface collapses into dentine, that option ends.
How to catch that window
Early lesions are painless and often invisible, especially between teeth, where only bite-wing radiographs are reliable. The only way to catch the window is to come before pain — by the time it hurts, the lesion has reached dentine. This is the most concrete return on a regular check-up: the filling you never needed.
Getting Here, Booking and Emergencies from Gebizli
Route, booking and emergency arrangements for patients from Gebizli.
Getting here from Gebizli
Gebizli lies in the Muratpaşa district of Antalya; Muratpaşa is one of the central districts, about 2 kilometres from the clinic. We also see patients from neighbouring areas that share the route from Gebizli, such as Demircikara, Fener, Kılınçarslan, Mehmetçik. You can ask for the location on WhatsApp when travelling from Gebizli.
Appointments for Gebizli
At this distance, splitting treatment into visits is no problem for patients from Gebizli, and attending reviews is easy too. As with patients from Muratpasa generally, appointments for families from Gebizli can be scheduled consecutively.
Emergencies from Gebizli
Setting out from Gebizli at night is quick; come without delay in an emergency, and calling as you leave means preparation is done in advance. For patients coming from Dental Clinic in Gebizli, 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.
Dental Trauma in Children: Play and Sports Accidents
Most childhood dental injuries happen at home, in the playground and during sport. What is done in the first minutes largely determines the tooth's long-term fate.
Types of injury
Each carries a different urgency:
- Concussion: the tooth is in place and slightly tender — monitoring suffices
- Fracture: a crown fragment lost — keep the piece, attend the same day
- Displacement: the tooth is out of position — urgent
- Avulsion: in a permanent tooth a true emergency, the first 30 minutes decisive
- Intrusion: the tooth driven into the bone — urgent assessment
The difference between baby and permanent teeth
In a baby tooth the priority is protecting the permanent tooth bud beneath. An avulsed baby tooth is therefore never replaced, and in some situations extraction is preferred. In a permanent tooth the priority is saving it and the approach is the opposite. This distinction is the source of the most common first-aid mistake.
Why follow-up is long
The pulp of a tooth that has taken a blow can lose vitality months or even years later. Reviews after trauma are therefore planned at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months, and continue longer if needed. If discolouration, a blister on the gum or tenderness on biting appears in between, attend without waiting.
