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If you practice excellent daily oral hygiene that is a truly good thing. Unfortunately, even the best at-home dental care practices cannot work alone to keep away gum disease. Daily brushing and flossing is wonderful and important, however if teeth are far back in your mouth they can be difficult to reach. Or if you are not using proper brushing techniques and you are using the wrong type of tooth brush, you may even be hurting your gums. If you have not have a professional dental cleaning over the past six months, we hope you will make us your Canton MI dentist practice, and come visit us for a dental cleaning and to learn even more about dental hygiene.
At Cavalier Family Dental our Canton MI dentist is Dr. Joseph Gondoly. We offer a wide array of dental care procedures in the areas of family and cosmetic dentistry. We know the importance of periodic dental cleanings in order to keep your teeth and gums healthy. Our dental hygienist will review proper brushing and flossing techniques and be sure that you are brushing with the right kind of brush. If a brush is too hard it may end up even doing damage to your gums. If you are brushing too frequently, you may also cause gum damage. During a dental cleaning we will use special dental cleaning instruments that will be able to remove tartar from your teeth. Tartar forms when plaque is left on your teeth after brushing; it causes gum disease. Tartar is a hard, mineralized substance and no amount of brushing and flossing will be able to remove it. It can only be removed during a dental cleaning using a dental cleaning instrument. If the instrument is used incorrectly, dental enamel can be destroyed, so this should only be done by someone well trained in the dental hygiene field.
When left on teeth, tartar will cause deep pockets to form between the teeth and gums. These deep pockets hold tartar, plaque and bacteria and are the perfect place for infection to form. This infection is gum disease. It can even go down to the jawbone. When this happens teeth can loosen and begin to fall out. Infection can even move to other parts of your body and cause serious health concerns. If you do have gum disease, we will offer a scaling and root planing treatment that will generally be able to get your gums back on the road to good health. If you would like to be seen by our Canton MI dentist, contact our office today.
By Cavalier Family Dental
November 25, 2015
Our mission at Cavalier Family Dental is to deliver happiness through the creation and maintenance of healthy and beautiful smiles.
