Preventative Care Visits
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Preventative Care Visits
Preventative care visits are essential to maintaining a healthy smile. Healthy patients should have their teeth cleaned and examined every six months for children and 3-4 months for adult in order to encourage healthy smiles and address oral health problems while they are smaller and simpler to correct.
Facts
✓ Periodontal Disease is one of the most common diseases in adults.
✓ Periodontal Disease is progressive and failure to treat the disease may result in the eventual loss of teeth
✓ Periodontal Disease is not curable but the procedures that we recommend will attempt to halt the disease process from being more destructive.
✓ You must become very active in your own home care of disease control to arrest the disease process. Your hygienist and/or doctor cannot control the disease by themselves.
✓ Your daily disease control at home is essential but can only disturb bacteria up to 3 mm below the gum line.
✓ Professional maintenance partnered with your daily homecare is the key to future success.
✓ Periodontal Disease is episodic which is why we will evaluate your mouth at each visit and plan appropriately for it
✓ There are many other risk factors that can contribute to your periodontal condition.
✓ We now know that there are many systemic factors related to Periodontal Disease.
✓ Our goal is to HALT this disease process and continue to monitor it
