Basic Oral Health Knowledge

We all know that the gateway to the body is through the mouth. What we put into our mouth determines how healthy our body will be. If you keep stuffing bad food into your mouth, don’t be shocked when you fall sick. It’s merely garbage in, garbage out. Therefore watching what you eat is very important.

Most of us know that you should visit your dentist twice in a year which is every 6 months and you might be wondering , “why do I have to”? “I’ve never felt any pain”. “My parents never visited the dentist”. “It is not important”. I know most of us don’t want to have no tooth in our mouth or to have most of our teeth missing as we get old and this actually very possible and easily achievable. Therefore, it is essential we visit the dentist occasionally even if it’s just for routine dental check up.

During routine dental check up (should be done every 6 months) ; these are what the Dentist looks out for:

When you visit the Dentist will check inside your mouth for something called plaque a d calculus. Plaque is a thin film that usually covers the teeth. When you don’t brush well, the plaque hardens or calcifies and becomes calculus.

You may have noticed some yellowish, whitish, brownish and in some cases greenish discolouration on people’s teeth and this might have got you wondering what it was and if anything could be done. Those things are called calculus and can be easily removed with scaling and polishing.

During routine check up, when the dentist is checking your teeth, he might come across a hole or more in the tooth which has not yet progressed into the pulp (the living tissue of the teeth). This can easily be filled with some tooth coloured material GIC or Composite depending on the indication.

This is important because further progression of the tooth decay would lead to pain and eventually treatment plan will change which then becomes more expensive and more time consuming.

It will amaze you that your mouth could be a pointer to an underlying disease such as Diabetes. So if discovered, treatment can be quickly commenced.

When you visit a Dentist; these are the basic oral health knowledge you would be told:

So why not visit a dentist today and get those teeth checked.

P.S . Dentists are fun to be around, we are the coolest doctors .

Will you like to know anything else about the mouth, let me know in the comment section.

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