Colour alteration Flashcards
Extrinsic stains can be:
- primary
- seconary
What are primary stains?
Substances that enter that the oral cavity: tea, coffee, wine
Intrinsic stains can be:
- pre eruptive
- post eruptive
What are secondary stains?
- Mouthwashes or medicaments that deposit colored substances
- Denaturation of the plaque proteins
Define extrinsic stains:
Deposit of chromogenic materials in the tooth surface over the acquired pellicle
What are extrinsic staining?
Substances that stain the surface of the teeth.
What extrinsic factors do we have?
- chromogenic bacteria stains
- Tobacco
- Medicaments
- Foods and beverages
- Iron
Whats the characteristic of chromogenic bacteria stains?
Green, black brown and orange
Whats is the characteristic of tobacco stain?
black and brown
What is the characteristic of medicament stains?
- silver nitrate: grey black
- stannous fluoride: black brown
- chlorhexidine: black brown
What are the characteristics of foods and beverages?
coffe, tea, wine, berries etc. colour of food item
What are the characteristics of Iron?
Black cervical discolouration
What are the primary extrinsic pigmentation?
- Green
- Orange
- Black
- Metallic
- Tobacco
What are primary stains?
Tea, coffee, wine, nicotine, colorants…
Chromogens bind to proteins in the bacterial plaque by hydrogen bonds.
Treatment: Easy to remove at the beginning – brush and more abrasive pastes.
Aggravated if fissures on the tooth surface.
What are green pigmentation?
Due to the phenacetin pigment, produced by bacterias and oral yeasts + bad oral hygene.
• Some authors relate it with hemoglobine deposits derivated from the gingivitis.
• Variable thickness.
• Sometimes disappear in adolescence.
What are orange pigmentation?
Irregular stains in cervical and buccal surfaces of anterior teeth.
Easy to remove with the brush (low adherence).
Related with bacteria like mesenteric bacillus, sarcina roseus.
What are black pigmentation?
- Stains in the cervical surfaces .
- More in primary teeth.
- Related with ferric deposits from the diet, metabolized by the oral flora.
- Black line 1mm width. Small and frequently in the gingival margin ( B and P). The color intensity varies according to the patient , but they are not related to hygiene
What is metallic pigmentation?
- by inhalation of metal salts in the work environment, metals in the mouth, drugs
The metal powder attacks to the acquired pellicle and generates pigmentation
- green: lead, nickel
- brown- grey: iron
- black: silver or manganese
Trist brushing is important, otherwise they could penetrate into the tooth and could cause permanent staining
Tobacco pigmentation:
• Related with consumption of tobacco.
• Black or brown pigmentation.
• It affects palatal surface of upper molars (2/3 gingival) and plaque
of lower incisors.
• Not related to the amount of tobacco, but the type of tobacco
(Black=more pigmentation)
Secondary extrinsic pigmentation:
- Clorhexidine, tin fluoride, medicines containing iron, vitamin complexes! treatment: abrasive paste
- Substances initially not dyed. Due to chemical oxidation reactions become chromogen.
- A reverse oxidation reaction makes them disappear.
Whats intrinsic discolouration?
Intrinsic discoloration occurs following a change of the structural composition or thickness of the dental hard tissues. Chromogenic deposits inside the teeth (enamel or dentin). It is not possible to remove just brushing.
Characteristic of Detinogenesis imperfecta::
yellow or grey brown
Characteristic of Amelogenesis imperfecta:
yellow brown
characteristic of dental fluorosis:
opaque white to yellow brown patches
Characteristics of sulphur drugs:
Black staining
Tetracyclines:
- chlortetracycline
- oxytetracycline
- Tetracycline HCL
- Demetylchlortetracycline
- Minocycline
- Doxycycline
Different discolouration