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Preventative Care
Oral health is key to maintaining your overall health. It needs regular
care, maintenance, and professional monitoring to keep you feeling
and functioning optimally.
Brushing and flossing regularly at home is the best way for you to
maintain your smile at home.
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Hygiene visits: Its very important to remove the sticky plaque
and hard build up (calculus or tarter) from the teeth in order to
remove the films that allow decay causing bacteria to damage the
enamel. Biannual care appointments are for most people, some
however will require a more frequent interval, 3 or 4 months to
keep their mouths as healthy as possible.
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Periodontal Therapy: signs of periodontal disease are painful,
swollen gums; increasing tooth mobility, chronic bad breath. The
process of treatment for periodontal disease is focused on the
removal of build up below the gumline to facilitate a decrease in
the problematic bacteria. If left untreated the process will
continue and lead to bone destruction and eventually tooth loss.
Periodontal disease is the leading cause of adult tooth loss.
