As dentists, we emphasise the importance of not neglecting your routine checks for your oral and dental health. Because having healthy teeth and gums is also important for our general health.
Having dental cleaning every 6 months during your regular visits to your dentist for your oral and general health helps to prevent various dental health problems. Dental cleaning is an important part of your routine dental examination. The cleaning process involves removing plaque and tartar from the teeth using special instruments. Plaque is a yellowish formation you see around your gum line. It is a soft, sticky structure that can be removed by brushing and flossing. However, if the plaque hardens into tartar, scaling should be performed.
If you have gum disease or heart and diabetes diseases due to their known links with dental problems, you should visit the dentist more often and have your tartar cleaned with the evaluation of your dentist.
5 benefits of regular dental cleaning:
- Prevents caries.
- Reduces tooth loss.
- Brightens your smile.
- Freshens your breath, eliminates bad breath.
- Strengthens the immune system.
Common misconceptions about dental hygiene
There are two misconceptions among the people: ‘Once you have your teeth cleaned, you should always have them cleaned’ or ‘When you have your teeth cleaned, they get dirty faster’. So, what is the truth of this? Here is the answer:
Tartar (tartar) on the teeth creates surface areas where bacteria can easily settle in large quantities. At the same time, due to its gradually growing structure, it disturbs the gum and removes it from its location, which appears as gingival recession. During dental cleaning, this stone is broken and removed by special ultrasonic devices without touching the tooth and gum. In this way, both the possibility of the gum coming back to its old place increases and since the tooth surface is not touched, the tooth emerges as it is without any scratch or abrasion. Therefore, teeth can regain their former health with tartar cleaning. The false belief that the tooth gets dirty faster after cleaning is due to the fact that we do not look more carefully at the tooth that emerges sparkling after cleaning. Because your snow-white teeth that appear after cleaning are now precious to you. But at the slightest yellowing, you may think that your teeth have become dirty very quickly. For this reason, visiting the dentist every 6 months and cleaning these small yellowing on your teeth before they turn into tartar will make a great contribution to your general oral health and smile.
It is natural for tartar to form in the oral environment over time and for these formations to increase faster as age progresses. The belief that once you have your teeth cleaned, you always need to have them cleaned is partially true. Because if you already have tartar on your teeth, you should always have them cleaned. You can also contact your dentist to have your existing tartar cleaned or if you do not have any tartar in your mouth, you can take early precautions by learning potential problems. How about setting a goal to enter the new year white and healthy?