Small cavities go away??

do small cavities just go away if you keep the area really clean?





if they don't, why do dentists refuse to fill some small/shallow cavities? aren't they essentially just waiting for them to get bigger?

Small cavities go away??
If it is indeed a cavity no it will not go away only get larger and your dentist should fill it- If you have a dentist that doesn't want to address your problem then I think that I would find a new dentist (one that cares about my teeth) After all your smile is one of the first things people notice about you .Hope that this helps
Reply:If you floss twice a day and brush three times a day, no even small cavities will not go away.





Small cavities may seem like they go away but they will get bigger once you have them. This can be called delayed pain reaction because our teeth are so thick it takes time for a small cavity to get to the root.





If a dentist refuses to fill a cavity then get another opinion from another dentist.





Yes, a dentist is obliged to make your teeth as well as he can get them because you are a paying customer.
Reply:Yes and no. Let's start with some lingo:





A cavity is a hole


Caries is a disease process





Often when a dentist says "You have a cavity" he really means you have caries and there is no true cavitation (the bugs are there but there is not a hole). In this case the caries can in a sense "go away" and you could have arrested caries (the bugs are dead, there's no hole, but you have a weakened area of the tooth). If this is small enough and usually limited to just the enamel (outer hard surface) your dentist might decide that it would cause greater damage to your tooth to fill it than to leave it alone (dentists have to cut away some healthy tooth structure to prepare a filling) . They may just keep it under observation until they see you again (especially if you're good on your oral hygiene) - in a sense they're waiting for it to get bigger (if it does get bigger, but like I said sometimes the carious process can arrest/stop)





If you have a true cavity (hole) then this won't go away and it will need to be filled. You can't keep the hole clean and so more than likely the carious process will continue in that space. This warrants all the cutting of healthy tooth because the carious process could go all the way to the root canal.





Hope this helps.

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