Dental Cleaning

Your daily dental hygiene home care, as well as regular cleanings and check-ups are very important in maintaining not only your oral health, but your overall health.  Your oral health can be a reflection on your overall health.

Periodontal disease can affect your overall health. Current medical research shows that heart disease, clogged arteries and stroke might be linked to the inflammation and infections that oral bacteria can cause.  Reasons such as this are exactly why we promote good dental hygiene.

You can protect your oral health by:

• Brushing your teeth twice daily
• Flossing daily
• Eating a healthy diet and limiting between-meal snacks
• Replacing your toothbrush every three to four months

• Going to your regularly scheduled dental checkups

   

Scaling and Polishing is a generalized cleaning to enable comprehensive periodontal evaluation and diagnosis. Simply, this cleaning is for the removal of sticky, bacteria-filled plaque; dental calculus (tartar), a build-up of calcified plaque on the teeth and stains, above and below the gum line. There are two types of dental scaling instruments used, ultrasonic instruments and hand instruments.

Fluoride Treatment primary benefit is that it helps prevent tooth decay. It can also reverse tooth erosion that has already taken place.