5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT SKIP A DENTAL CHECKUP
Not many people look forward to visiting the dentist twice a year for their dental checkups.
If you are looking after your teeth by brushing twice a day and flossing some of the time. You do not have any dental pain or know of any problems with your teeth.
If you skip some dental checkups it can affect not only your dental health, but also your overall health.
What are the 5 reasons you should not skip a dental checkup?
1. Cleaner Teeth
Even when you brush your teeth twice a day, small amounts of plaque are left on your teeth. Over time this plaque will harden and become tartar or calculus. Once this happens no amount of brushing will remove the calculus - only a cleaning from a dental professional will be able to remove it.
That is why your teeth feel so GREAT after you have a professional teeth cleaning.
2. Finding problems while they are small
Finding dental problems while they are still small means that you will only need a small filling not a large, more complicated fillings or dental treatments that will be more expensive.
Smaller cavities will usually not be associated with any pain, if they are left untreated they will get bigger until they reached the nerve of the tooth - this is when you will be experiencing pain!
Why go through the pain of a toothache and the sleepless nights when you can get it dealt with while it is small and painless?
3. Gum Disease
The build up of plaque and calculus over time not only affects your teeth it also can cause gum disease. The signs of Gum disease included red and inflammed gums. The gums will often bleed when you brush your teeth.
Gum disease if left can cause your teeth to become loose and even lose your teeth.
Regular checkups and professional cleaning remove the build up of plaque and calculus and gum disease can be reversed if caught early.
4. Oral Cancer Screening
Oral Cancers are a very serious disease and because most of us do not spend much time looking in our mouths it is a cancer that can be easily missed during the early stages.
Dentists are looking an people's mouths everyday and are trained to find the early signs of oral cancers.
Catching oral cancers early can be the difference in saving your life.
5. Overall Health
Study after study link your oral health with your overall health.
There are links between cardiovascular disease and gum infections. A recent study has shown a link between preterm babies and their mother's having gum infections. Some bacterial infections in the mouth can be inhaled and cause pneumonia for some people. Gum disease is often worse for people who suffer from diabetes.
It is worth looking after your mouth to ensure the rest of your body is as health as possible.
It may not seem like much to skip a dental checkup, but dental problems can develop quickly. Visiting the dentist every 6 months will prevent these problems before they become bigger problems and give you to have a health mouth for life.