When you see your smile in the mirror or photos, do you feel proud of your mouth? Hopefully, the answer is yes. Each March, we celebrate World Oral Health Day, and this year the theme is simple, to be proud of your mouth. While World Oral Health Day highlights the need for good oral health, it’s a theme that we promote all year round.
Why Your Mouth Deserves Good Care
Your mouth must work hard each day, helping you to eat without pain or discomfort. Having healthy and strong teeth allows you to chew your food properly. As you chew food, it stimulates saliva production, a remarkable fluid that helps to keep your mouth lubricated and comfortable and which contains enzymes that begin the process of digestion. Proper digestion ensures your body receives essential nutrition to stay strong and healthy. When you take care of your mouth, it protects your general health so that you can live a healthier and longer life. Looking after your mouth and having an attractive smile shows others that you care about yourself and are proud of your mouth.
Focusing on Preventing Dental Problems
Margolian Dentistry focuses on preventive dentistry, allowing you to maintain optimal oral health more easily, and it’s an approach that saves you money and time in the longer term. When you first visit our dental practice in Whitby, we fully assess your dental health and review your medical health. Far from being two separate entities, your mouth and body are closely connected, and what happens to one can greatly affect the other.
After examining your teeth and gums, we can provide you with a comprehensive preventive dental care plan. If you need treatment, we explain every option carefully. Sometimes there is a choice of solutions that might use slightly different materials or techniques, and where the costs may differ.
Good Daily Oral Care Isn’t Difficult
The great thing about good oral care is that it really isn’t tricky, and a daily routine will typically take 10 minutes or less to complete. Everyone needs to brush their teeth twice a day to remove the buildup of dental plaque, a sticky biofilm that contains harmful bacteria. Once-a-day flossing is also essential because your toothbrush cannot get in between your teeth, where plaque can soon build up. Flossing also removes any trapped food debris between your teeth and will otherwise begin to rot and smell unpleasant.
Seeing Us Regularly
In addition to looking after your teeth daily, you need to see a dentist in Ajax regularly. Usually, most people need to see a dentist twice a year, and it’s best to have your teeth cleaned professionally at the same time. We can regularly check your teeth and gums; it’s easy to detect any small problems and monitor them or provide suitable treatment. This helps prevent smaller problems from becoming bigger, more expensive to treat and potentially painful. A professional dental cleaning removes any hardened plaque called calculus and is great for maintaining healthy teeth and gums and brightening your smile. These regular visits are also a great chance to talk with us and discuss any problems or queries about your dental health.
We regard dental education in Oshawa as an important part of our practice. The entire dental team has a wealth of knowledge and experience, and we find it immensely rewarding when we can help our patients learn something new about their oral health. We can show you new techniques to brush and floss your teeth, discuss which products to use and answer any questions you may have about oral care. By working with you, we can make sure you are proud of your mouth and have a healthy smile year-round.
