#Dental Check-up

[zensmiles]

Experienced Dentist Melbourne Get a Consultation

Trust an Experienced Dentist Melbourne at Zen Smiles for all your dental needs. Our consultations provide personalized care to ensure the best results for your oral health. Whether it's a routine exam or a more complex procedure, we are here to support your smile every step of the way at Zen Smiles.

[mysmiledoctors]

Maintain Your Oral Health with Expert Care at My Smile Doctors - Dentist in Parramatta

At My Smile Doctors, your trusted dentist in Parramatta, we offer thorough dental check-ups designed to keep your oral health in top condition. Our services include a comprehensive examination, full-face X-rays, oral cancer screening, and gum disease assessments. We also provide professional cleaning, fluoride treatments, and detailed consultations to address all your dental needs. Don't let fear of the dentist keep you from maintaining a healthy smile—our compassionate team is here to provide the best care in Parramatta.

[holisticdentalmelbournecbd]

How Often Should I Get a Dental Check-Up?

Wondering how often you need a dental check-up? At Holistic Dental Melbourne CBD, we believe in personalized oral healthcare. While twice a year is a common guideline, your unique needs determine the ideal frequency. Our friendly dentists will assess your smile, taking into account your brushing habits, risk factors, and overall health. This personalized approach ensures you receive the right level of care, whether it's a check-up every 6 months, or extending it based on your excellent oral health.

[pathwaysdental]

Reasons to Visit Your Dentist Even if You Go to an Orthodontist

Is it necessary to see a dentist before seeing an orthodontist? Many people ask themselves this question when they go in for their first appointment to have their teeth straightened. The answer is simple, but if you don’t know what services your orthodontist provides, this is a question worth asking. To learn about the Top 3 Reasons to Keep Seeing Your Dentist Even if You Go to an Orthodontist visit pathwaysdental.com/ or call us at 905.304.4505.

[anvaydentalclinic]

Why Should You Go To A Routine Dental Check-up?

A regular dental examination is crucial for one’s health. They not only maintain the condition of your teeth and gums, but they also guarantee long-term general health and hygiene. Regular dental visits are crucial, at least once every six months, and are not just necessary when you have an urgent dental issue. In this article we will discuss why routine dental check up is important, so continue reading.

1. Dental Examinations Prevent Cavities, Plaque, Tartar, And Tooth Decay

Even the most careful person could forget to clean the hard-to-reach parts of their mouth. A notable example are the rear molars, which are notoriously difficult to clean. Everyone should go to the dentist every six months for this reason.

The dentist will check the patient’s teeth to look for any early signs of tooth decay. If the dentist notices tiny cavities or white patches on the patient’s teeth, fluoride therapy will be started in order to prevent tooth decay and fill larger cavities. After that, the dentist will do a thorough cleaning of the teeth and gums to remove any plaque or tartar that has amassed there. By doing this, the teeth and gums will be protected from damaging microorganisms that dwell in plaque and tartar and hurt the teeth and gums.

2. Regular Dental Checkups Prevent Gum Disease

Usually, gum disease’s early stages don’t cause any symptoms. Gum disease in the mouth is so challenging to spot. Fortunately, dentists are trained to spot gum disease even when it tries to hide.

During a routine examination, the dentist will check the gums to make sure they are firm. We’ll look for swelling, receding gums, and broad gum pockets. If the dentist notices any of these disturbing signs, they will deal with the underlying issue.

Early gum disease often goes away when a patient modifies their dental habits. A dentist will be pleased to give their patient advice on proper gum care.

3. Dentists Conduct Regular Exams To Look For Oral Cancer

Along with inspecting the patient’s teeth and gums, a dentist will look for any signs of oral cancer. This is fantastic news because, if untreated, oral cancer can progress to a dangerous condition.

The dentist uses a specialised laser to find dead tissue caused by cancers. The examination is referred to as a VELscope cancer exam. It is painless and only takes a few minutes. Due to this examination, a person who sees the dentist every six months has a low risk of having late-stage oral cancer.

While looking in the mirror at your teeth may only show surface-level irregularities, it’s possible that you won’t be able to detect any issues that may be lurking beneath the gums and may continue to do so until it’s too late to fix them.

4. Early Problem Detection And Treatment Are Possible

While gazing in the mirror at your teeth may only reveal surface-level abnormalities, you might not be able to see any problems that might be hiding beneath the gums and might continue to do so until it is too late to address them. Dentists can assist you in recognising dental issues early on before they worsen. Dentists are quite skilled in recognising, diagnosing, and treating conditions like dental decay, gum disorders, etc. and can be very beneficial to you in the long run.

5. You Can Receive Guidance That Is Specific To Your Needs

Most people tend to make the error of depending solely on the internet for do-it-yourself solutions to basic oral health issues.

While the internet does have its advantages in that it can give you a wealth of knowledge to address your inquiry, that same wealth of information can also become your hindrance.

The internet is also infamous for its abundance of false information, which might get you into serious problems if you used it to treat your teeth and gums. A dentist, on the other hand, is a qualified professional who underwent extensive training before earning his or her dental licence. As a result, he or she would be a superior resource for advice on oral hygiene and care issues.

A dentist is also the best resource to turn to for dental care and treatments that are specifically designed to fit your needs and physical limitations.

6. You Can Identify Underlying Issues That Would Not Otherwise Be Visible

In the long run, getting regular dental checkups can save you a lot of stress and money by identifying and treating tooth problems that are not immediately apparent. Dental X-rays of your teeth and jaw bone are taken as part of the routine dental examination that is performed every six months.

Identification of potential problems such as impacted teeth (tooth that cannot grow past the gum line), bone deterioration, cysts, inflammation, tumours, and harm to adjacent structures like the jawbone is a key factor in this. In addition to these issues, X-rays obtained during a routine dental examination can also spot damaging dental conditions that should be addressed right away in order to prevent further issues.

7. You Can Avoid Developing Poor Oral Habits

Identifying and avoiding behaviours that can be harming your teeth and gums without your knowledge is one of the key reasons to have routine dental exams. Your teeth and gums can be harmed by bad habits including biting your nails, chewing ice, clenching your jaw, brushing too hard, eating foods that are too hard or sticky, smoking, drinking coffee, and more.

These problems and the harm they do to your teeth will be brought to light during your appointment to the dentist. Your dentist will be able to identify any obvious signs of tooth deterioration as well as the underlying cause. Then, you can focus on changing your lifestyle to avoid these practises and stop additional harm to your teeth and gums. He or she will be able to point out these harmful habits.

Source: https://anvaydentalclinic.com/why-should-you-go-to-a-routine-dental-check-up/

[szhmidty]

The California insurance thing is adding on to my established belief that insurance is inherently a bad mitigation for any risk that affects large swaths of the population who will very likely need it at some point.

The point of insurance is for the collective to pay an affordable regular fee, and the few who are affected by a given risk are compensated. Ideally, the EV of insurance would be 0, but in practice the EV is negative, but since we are broadly risk averse* we want it anyway.

But that only works if the fee is affordable and the risk is low. Fire insurance in California was a bad idea because everyone was at a major risk, the full cost of premiums would have been immense. California made it worse by making it illegal to charge for the real cost, but even if they hadn't, the premiums would have simply ballooned and many people would have been priced out of insuring their homes, and would still be in this situation.

Similar thing happens with healthcare. Everyone wants their insurance to cover everything, including very common, every day medications for long term medical problems. Needing my ADHD medication isn't a risk, it's not at the tail end of the probability distribution. My insurance shouldn't cover it, because covering it means that the company has to raise everyone's premiums, and raising the premiums prices people (myself included) out of being able to afford insurance for actual tail risks that could ruin their lives.

"But I need my ADHD medication to live a good life, it would ruin me to not get it" yeah, I hear you, same here, but insurance is just a bad system for dealing with that. It just isn't a risk, it doesn't fit well with the "small affordable fee to avoid unlikely disaster" model. If insurance pays for everyone's lifetime medications, then it has to raise premiums by the average of the cost of everyone's lifetime medications, and everyone breaks even, except now insurance is just more expensive and some people are priced out.

I think anytime insurance starts to sail out of the price range of the target demographic, it's a sign that something is deeply wrong and some intervention, likely government intervention, is needed. If people can't afford the fire insurance, it's because the fire risk is way too high and your forest management strategy should be overhauled. If people are struggling to pay their health care insurance, their insurance probably covers way too much because too much of every day health care is also out of reach of people.

Insurance companies aren't the good guys, you have an adversarial relationship with them. They will try to screw you over and lie to you and scam you and all the rest. But you can't get blood from stone, and you can't get a policy of "pay me money if my home built on top of kindling burns down" without paying for it somewhere, and instead of getting mad at the insurance company you should probably start asking why your home is built on kindling.

*Or, well, more complicatedly the full cost of some disasters is much worse than than strict accounting cost. Losing your home is far more destructive than losing the market price of the home's value, because it means spending weeks to months homeless and opening you up to other risks.

[grave-the-demon]

its actually so over for me

ive never been very good at remembering to brush my teeth and ill go days without doing so

but now im regularly brushing them because.... because everytime i brush my teeth i think "moonjo would be proud of me!"

GIRL JUST CAUSE HES A DENTIST-- HE'S ALSO A SERIAL KILLER CANNIBAL LIKe

I BOOKED A FUCKING DENTIST APPOINTMENT!!!!!

[goldkirk]

If anyone remembers all the dental work I needed done uhhhhhhh three years ago and never went back and ran away forever…I’m finally going back to a dentist on Thursday to restart the process and face my deep and utter abiding terror. And I also scheduled my COVID and flu vaccines for a couple hours later. And my psych appointment to restart meds.

I figured get it all done in one day, have my miserable immune reaction on Friday that I seem to always get with Moderna COVID shots, and then flee directly into the weekend and never be a person again except when I’m on and off crying. It’s going to be so kind to future me to get these things done and I can do it no matter how much I feel like I am constantly about to Actually Physically Die.

[qeyond]

Beyond…..dentist…..please…..I am decomposing

"oh the decor? I actually did it all by myself, can you tell? I took a color theory course in college."

The framed photo is actually from his own personal collection! He thought adding the motivational posters and the "rest in peace" would help calm patients. :) He's very proud, please don't be rude.

[getoo]

tooth pain will make u want to kys

[dearmrsawyer]

sawyer was sick over the weekend so we got some blood tests done and it turns out she is diabetic, she stayed at the vet a couple of nights, it was really strange to be alone in my room those nights. i spend more time with her than anybody. then we were supposed to pick her up thursday morning and they said to come in the evening instead because her glucose was v low. the vet asked me to find a glucose sensor to bring with me that evening, it was a public holiday so i had to find a pharmacy that was actually open. when we went to get her we waited 90 minutes and the sensor was being weird so they said come back later. finally brought her back home at 11pm and the sensor still wasn't working, had to go buy another sensor and bring her back this morning to switch them out, had to leave her there for a few hours so they could switch them and make sure the new one worked, then come back in the afternoon. i've had like no sleep at all this week, its a miracle i kept my eyes open to get training to give her insulin. she's so much better since she came home, even though she's not stabilised yet she very clearly feels heaps better ❤ it was such a relief to have her sleeping on my bed again last night. i was still up all night because i felt like i needed to keep an eye on her because i didn't have the monitor. we'll be in and out a lot over the next couple of weeks while they fine tune her dosage and monitor her levels.

[scarycranegame]

people who think mouthwashing is about rape clearly haven't played how fish is made/the last one and then another

[umemiyan]

thinking about previous conversations on ‘guys who are weird about your teeth’… ok so… what if i kinda wanna be weird about teeth too? what if i wanna inspect my boy’s mouth, grip his chin, press on his tongue, thumb over his canines to feel the points?? run my fingers all up in there like he’s a fuckin animal??? and he has to just sit there and let me but it’s okay because he knows i won’t hurt him