Dental professionals provide important in-office care to help ensure that your teeth and gums remain healthy. Still, restorative and preventive treatments alone do not sufficiently protect your oral health. The dental care that you provide to your mouth at home is also important. As a result, dentists offer advice to help ensure that your teeth and gums receive proper care even when you are away from the dental office.
Here are a few homecare suggestions that dentists offer to keep your mouth in great shape.
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If a small issue in your smile makes you self-conscious, consider dental contouring. It's a noninvasive cosmetic dentistry procedure that removes small amounts of enamel from your teeth in order to give them the perfect shape.
A cosmetic dentist uses a small diamond bur to carefully grind away very small (usually less than a millimeter in depth) portions of enamel from your tooth to make it more even. This procedure is painless because the pulp of your tooth is never touched and your enamel does not feel pain.
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Achieving the most perfect smile that you're capable of can be time-consuming, difficult, expensive, and even painful. If your teeth have a lot of problems, you could be looking at years of straightening, reshaping, and whitening to get the look you want. If you don't want to spend all that time, you'll be glad to know that there's an alternative that can do it all in just a couple visits to your dentist's office.
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If you take care of your teeth properly, such as brushing and flossing twice per day, this reduces your chances of having teeth problems. If you do not take care of your teeth, however, you may have bone loss in your mouth due to different dental problems. Below are three of these problems so you can try to prevent them from happening to you.
Tooth Loss
If you lose a tooth, you need to get it repaired as soon as possible.
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While you may put a lot of time and effort into caring for your teeth on a daily basis, you may be missing out on some important information that may end up defeating your best efforts at avoiding certain dental problems. While it is true that eating certain foods can increase the chances of issues like cavities or staining, it's also true that drinks can harm your teeth and cause a number of different issues, even more so than foods in some cases.
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