Dentodiva - Your Daily Dental Guide

Hello to one and all!!! Have you ever wondered what all the dental specialties are and what they each do? Well.... Today I am gonna give you a sneak-peak into the matter.  There are conventionally NINE branches of dentistry. They all have different modalities of work and treatment. 1. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery These doctors deal with simple exodontia (tooth extraction) to the most complex of facial surgeries including severe head & neck trauma and other emergencies. They also correct various head & neck malformations (either congenital or acquired). Implants are also done by these surgeons. 2. Prosthodontics This field specializes in various head & neck prosthesis building. The prosthodontists engineer and lay the pavement of fabrication of missing parts of the body, mainly of the head and neck region. If you need to replace your teeth or any other oro-facial parts then do visit a prosthodontist. They also do implants. 3. Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology and O...

JENNY: Hey Tina!! Don’t forget you have the appointment at Dr. Brown’s today…. TINA: The DENTIST!!!! Oh no…. Not a chance…. It’s freaking scary over there!! The machines, the instruments…. They simply frighten the shit out of me!!   Does the scenario look familiar??? Yes… it does for many of us out there. Well…….. Today, after reading my work, it won’t the same anymore. Let us first clear out a few things. Shall we??😉 Who is a Dentist? Well, they are health care professionals dedicated toward providing the overall health of our head & neck region. Yes, we dentists are not bounded by the anatomic boundaries of just the oral cavity. Also, many a times we dentists are the first to recognize whether a patient is suffering from other systemic illness by the judging the conditions of the oral cavity. What does a dentist do to a patient? Ha-ha!! The most important question……. Okay, let me explain.😀 Once you enter a dental clinic, you may be greeted by the rec...

INTRODUCTION Hey there folks!!!! My name is Sangita Ghosh. I am a 3rd year student of dentistry. I come from Kolkata, which is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Providing healthcare is one of the noblest professions. And being a part of this profession has been the only true wish since my very childhood. Well, all I can say now is that by the Almighty's blessings and through my hard work, I am getting to where I wanted to be.💓 The motto towards bringing forth this blog is basically to aid in enlightening the mass by simplifying the world of   DENTISTRY  through easy words  and fun diagrams and pictures .😀 It would be my immense pleasure to help the community as a whole to embrace the gifts and care that dentistry has to offer. By doing so, we all would be gaining knowledge together about the most diverse anatomical part of the human body---- the Head & Neck region. In the SIMPLEST way off course.😉💗