I would like to share my experience as a dentist about the relationship between dental care and a person’s dental health. Most of the dental problems are preventable. Often, prevention is the best cure to most dental problems and also is the least expensive ways.
People would often ignore the importance of routine checkup and cleaning dental visits because they feel it is unnecessary and too troublesome to visit dentists two times a year. They feel it is unnecessary because they don’t have any pain or discomfort and as the result they might forget. However, routine checkup is a good way for dentist to find small problems like small cavity and fix them before it gets too big. Dental procedures like checkup exam, cleaning and fillings don’t cost much in comparison to other more complicated procedures like crowns, root canals and bridges.
From my observations, I would generalize that the group of people who has routine dental care would have less severe dental problems than those who only comes to dentist when they have pain or discomfort. Also, the first group of people would also have less chance to lose their teeth. I have many patients in their senior age who has maintained most of their teeth and they all are my routine dental patients who come for routine checkup and cleaning visits. Part of the reasons might be genetic but more importantly, dental care throughout his/her life can greatly improve the dental outcome and helps to maintain teeth even to senior age.
Written by Daniel Tee, DDS, MS
Family Dentist Office in Tempe AZ
Serving the city of Tempe, Chandler, Phoenix, Gilbert, and Mesa in Arizona. Practicing Family Dentist
