Preventative Dentistry Treatments

Preventative dentistry involves being proactive with your oral health to prevent issues arising, rather than having to cure them. The two main elements of this are visiting your dentist regularly so they can pick up on any problems and also having a thorough oral hygiene routine at home.

Visiting your dentist twice a year will increase the chance of them being able to identify problems early on and take action if necessary. Preventative dentistry also includes seeing your dental hygienist regularly, to remove unwanted plaque that can eventually cause cavities and gum disease.

One of the main benefits of preventative dentistry is that your oral health will be better. There is so much more to oral health than how your teeth look, with tooth decay, gum disease and mouth cancer all being very real and serious problems.

Preventative dentistry enables any of these problems to either be identified early or to be prevented in the first place, keeping your teeth and mouth healthy and reducing the chance of you needing any severe or invasive dental treatments in the future as a result of avoidable tooth loss and decay. In turn, this also means you will save a significant amount of money. Preventative dentistry is far more affordable than needing to pay to treat oral health problems.

By adopting a preventative approach, this means that we can get ahead of any dental problems before they happen by using our state of the art technology. We can detect any potential problems before they become serious and costly ones and will react to treating any issues early so that they don’t progress. Often, due to the limitations of NHS budgets, this is not always possible at NHS dentists, so we ensure that treatment is more reactive to prevent any further problems.

Preventative dentistry should start as early as possible! If you are considering preventative dentistry, now is the time to start. For parents considering preventative dentistry for their children, it can start as soon as they have their first teeth! Oral health should be just as much of a priority as the rest of your health, so taking care of it as much as possible is essential.

Preventative dentistry includes regular checkups by visiting your dentist twice a year, seeing a hygienist twice a year, having a thorough oral hygiene routine and knowing how to identify the early signs of potential oral health problems. This is something that your dentist will be able to support you with.

Our team is extremely passionate about instilling a long life passion in oral health for our patients. In our clinic, we have state of the art technology for our preventative dentistry treatments, and we offer ongoing support to our patients at home to help them to maintain the healthiest mouth possible.