Dentistry

Regularly visiting your dentist is very important, because it gives the opportunity to keep track of and improve the condition of your teeth. These visits provide great feedback about patients’ oral hygiene habits and methods, and their effectiveness. Overall health and lifestyle is also a key part of maintaining healthy teeth. Timely treatment is essential when having problems with teeth.
Having cavities is a sign of a bigger problem – usually tooth decay. To prevent dental disease, we carry out regular check-ups with patients, in which we examine the mouth and take X-rays if necessary. We give recommendations for obtaining healthy teeth, and teach the correct ways for taking care of your mouth, as well as introducing the best tools for achieving that goal. We also give advice about healthy diet choices.

We offer first aid for toothache, dental trauma, infections, inflammation, and other urgent situations. We will find out the cause of the ache and also the severity of the problem. We invite patients needing first aid in during the same day if possible.

For the fastest answer, we advise calling +372 672 0097, so we can provide instructions on how to act until getting to the doctor and how to preserve the tooth.

The most common reason for visiting a dentist is cavities, which are cured by being filled with different materials. For smaller defects, we use composite materials, which are based on composite resin and also known as the most common “white seal/filling.” With more extensive defects, we recommend using ceramic and golden inlays made in dental laboratories. These inlays are accurate, long-lasting, durable, and wear-resistant. Ceramic inlays also will not change their color over the course of time.

KliinikPluss is an official contractor for the Estonian Health Insurance Fund, meaning that the fees for patients under the age of 19 will be fully covered by the fund. These patients only have to pay the visitation fee, which is 5€. Children under the age of 2 pay no fees at all.

It is very important to visit a dentist when a baby begins teething to ensure healthy teeth from an early age. During this first visit, the dentist examines the teeth, asks about diet and tooth care habits, and gives recommendations. If necessary, a panoramic x-ray will be taken to check for teeth alternation and possible defects that cannot be seen during a visual check-up. Hereafter children will be expected to come in for a consultation every 6 months.

The need for endodontic treatment, also known as a root canal treatment, usually emerge from untreated caries. Cavities, or caries, form on the surface of the tooth, and if not treated, it pervades the enamel and then dentine, layers, and reaches the nerve and blood-rich pulp.
Normally the pulp is sterile, meaning there is not much bacteria. When tooth decay exposes the pulp to a microbe-rich mouth, local inflammation will occur due to infiltration by the mouth’s microbiome.
Tooth inflammation can run very severely (with pain) as well as chronically (without pain). If not cured at the right time. In this state it is usually possible to see changes in bone tissue surrounding the tooth on an X-ray picture.
The purpose of endodontic treatment is to clean and widen the pulp chamber as much as necessary, and insure a leak-proof filling. For widening the root canals, we use special rotating nickel-titan needle instruments and for rinsing, different in-root disinfecting rinses.  At the end of the treatment we will hermetically fill the root canals with special filling and restore the crown part according to your treatment plan.