{"id":463,"date":"2019-12-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com.es\/?p=463"},"modified":"2021-10-19T23:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T21:59:01","slug":"tratamiento-curetaje-dental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Todo lo que debes saber sobre el tratamiento de curetaje dental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Si padeces <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com.es\/periodoncia\/\">periodontitis o enfermedad de las enc\u00edas<\/a>, es posible que tu dentista te haya recomendado el tratamiento de curetaje dental. Este procedimiento tiene como objetivo la <strong>eliminaci\u00f3n de la placa bacteriana y el sarro acumulado bajo la l\u00ednea de las enc\u00edas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u00bfC\u00f3mo se lleva a cabo un curetaje dental?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Para realizar un curetaje dental se emplea una t\u00e9cnica de <strong>raspado de la placa y el sarro<\/strong> <strong>que se han ido acumulando en las \u00e1reas ocultas por las enc\u00edas<\/strong>. Para ello es necesario un instrumento especial llamado <em>cureta<\/em> (de ah\u00ed viene el nombre curetaje) que permite acceder a dichas \u00e1reas donde existe inflamaci\u00f3n. Si la periodontitis no se trata, puede ocasionar la p\u00e9rdida de piezas dentales, en \u00faltima instancia.<\/p>\n<p>Generalmente, la t\u00e9cnica empleada para el curetaje consiste en dividir la boca en <strong>cuadrantes<\/strong> y tratarlos en sesiones distintas, para comodidad del paciente. De este modo, y teniendo en cuenta que la boca se divide en 4 cuadrantes, necesitar\u00e1s un m\u00e1ximo de 4 sesiones.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u00bfEs lo mismo un curetaje que una limpieza dental?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>No. Mientras que una limpieza dental profesional es un procedimiento est\u00e9tico para limpiar la superficie de los dientes usando ultrasonidos y bicarbonato, un <strong>curetaje dental<\/strong> es un tratamiento periodontal que se centra en el raspado de la suciedad atrapada en una zona espec\u00edfica entre los dientes y las enc\u00edas.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u00bfDuele el curetaje?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Como habr\u00e1s deducido, un curetaje es m\u00e1s invasivo que una limpieza dental y, en consecuencia, <strong>puede resultar m\u00e1s doloroso<\/strong>. Las molestias depender\u00e1n de la tolerancia al dolor de cada paciente y de la profundidad del raspado. Por esta raz\u00f3n, es habitual que el dentista suministre <strong>anestesia local<\/strong> antes del procedimiento, con lo que el dolor queda fuera de la ecuaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u00bfC\u00f3mo debo cuidarme tras el curetaje dental?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Una <strong>dieta blanda y evitar los alimentos duros<\/strong> es la mejor recomendaci\u00f3n tras un curetaje. Adem\u00e1s, tu dentista te indicar\u00e1 qu\u00e9 analg\u00e9sicos son los m\u00e1s recomendables para tratar las molestias que pudieran producirse durante los siguientes d\u00edas siguientes al tratamiento. Por \u00faltimo, recuerda cepillarte los dientes con suavidad y enjuagarte con un colutorio antis\u00e9ptico en tu rutina de higiene dental habitual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si padeces periodontitis, tu dentista podr\u00eda recomendarte un curetaje dental para eliminar la placa y el sarro acumulados bajo la l\u00ednea de las enc\u00edas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odontologia-conservadora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorachandler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}