Dental Chinese: Periodontics
Phrases you'll use during this part of a dental appointment, with their meanings.
- They bleed
- Inflamed
- Do your gums bleed when you brush?
- The plaque
- Your gums bleed easily
- The pocket
- To measure
- The bone loss
- There is bone loss around these teeth
- I'm going to measure the pockets
- These pockets are deep
- I'm going to measure your gums.
- The deep cleaning
- The scaling
- Under the gum
- We're going to clean under the gum
- You need a deep cleaning
- Underneath
- This is not a regular cleaning
- I recommend a deep cleaning.
- They recede
- The exposed root
- The root is exposed
- Your gums are receding
- Exposed
- The exposed root is sensitive
- Do you feel sensitivity to cold?
- The interdental brush
- The maintenance
- It will bleed a little at first
- Use floss once a day
- Come back every three months for maintenance.
- Every three months
- Brush toward the gum line
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