The American Dental Association (ADA) recommends a minimum of two dental exams and cleanings each year to prevent minor issues from becoming major problems. This gives your dental professionals an opportunity to look for signs of trouble before they have time to progress further.
Taking good care of your teeth and gums today, with good preventive dentistry, can save so much in money and good health for the future. That is what preventive dentistry is all about — overall health and well-being in the years to come. Your dentist at Haltom Dental can help ensure that you can have healthy gums and teeth. The benefits are double — good health and possibly avoiding costly dental procedures in the future.
What is Preventive Dentistry?
It includes all the treatments that can enhance you oral health in the long term. In other words, preventive dentistry helps you maintain healthy gums and teeth so that you may not have to face problems in the future related to dental illnesses. Since prolonged dental treatments require spending a lot of money, you can save for tomorrow buy caring for your dental issues from today through good well-planned preventive dentistry.
Strategies for Preventive Dentistry
Prevention is a broad category of dentistry. Some of the common strategies are:
Good Oral Hygiene at Home.
This is step one that can be implemented right at home. Oral Hygiene simply means taking care of you oral health by ensuring good oral hygiene. Typically this involves proper brushing and flossing of your teeth at least twice a day.
Diet
Dentists recommend good diet as a basis of preventive care. So, make it a habit to avoid those foods which are harmful to your teeth and gums. Examples of such foods would be anything that is high in sugar and low in calcium.
Regular Dental Visits
Many people ignore dental pain because they consider it a minor issue. However, you need to know when minor dental pain is signaling future damage to teeth and gums. Regular visits to your dentist can detect problems before they happen.
Teeth Cleaning
Ordinary brushing and flossing at home is vital to good oral hygiene but it does not avoid the need for regular teeth cleaning by your dentist’s Professional Oral Hygienist. Dental stains and plaque simply cannot be removed at home. Therefore, a thorough teeth cleaning should be scheduled every six months. Most dental plans offer free teeth cleaning from your dentist with no co-pay. Check your policy for details.
Preventive dentistry can be the best overall strategy for taking good care of your oral health.
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