Regular dental checkups, professional cleaning and periodontal screenings are essential to prevent periodontal (gum) disease and maintain good overall health.
Here at Tranquil Dental we recommend that you attend regular visits to have these areas checked. This will ensure that we can diagnose any problems early.
Early diagnosis is the key to never having to undergo major dental treatments.
Dental Hygienist:
Included as part of our commitment to your oral care, a team approach is undertaken with the provision of a highly qualified and friendly dental hygienist.
Our dental hygienist will remove soft and hard plaque deposits from your teeth, demonstrate how to practice effective oral hygiene and provide other preventive dental care. She will also perform root planing – a procedure to remove calculus build-up – as part of your periodontal therapy, take dental x rays, and apply cavity-preventive agents such as fluorides and pit and fissure sealants. She will also prepare clinical and laboratory diagnostic tests for our dentists to interpret.
Our dental hygienist is here to help you develop and maintain good oral health. She will explain the relationship between diet and oral health and inform you how to select a toothbrush that will be most effective and suitable for your mouth shape and teeth contour and advise you on how to brush and floss your teeth effectively for maximum plaque removal.
Relationships between high plaque levels/oral diseases and other health disorders:
- Periodontal disease often is linked to the control of diabetes. Because diabetes reduces the body's resistance to infection, the gums are among the tissues likely to be affected
- Chronic periodontal disease is a risk for people with osteoporosis as this can result in decreased jawbone density and tooth loss. Damage from gum disease further aggravates the problem.
- Chronic periodontal disease is a risk during pregnancy, being linked with pre-term, low weight births.
- Fungal infections - Oral candidiasis, a fungal infection in the mouth appears to occur more frequently among people with diabetes, including those who wear dentures. If you smoke, have high blood glucose levels or often are required to take antibiotics, you are more susceptible to oral fungal infections.
- Oral bacteria can enter the bloodstream through bleeding sites in the mouth. This is a risk to the heart and circulatory system, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke.
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