PREVENTION
In this London dental practice, we are serious about Prevention. Are you really serious about avoiding false teeth? Here are six facts:

More people lose teeth due to gum disease than to dental decay. Gum disease is widespread, progressive and mostly painless.

Certain groups of people are prone to gum disease.

There are links between gum disease and these conditions:
heart disease
stroke
diabetes
smoking
alcohol abuse
poor diet

Smoking and alcohol use are linked to oral cancer.

Most patients are unaware that there is a disease process progressing in their mouths, because there is usually no pain and no obvious loosening of teeth until very late stages. Your dentist can detect early stages of the disease and help you.

Too many patients don’t take us seriously until the disease is obvious enough to cause them to notice. By then, it’s getting almost too late…
I’ve only got half a dozen teeth left in my mouth. It’s never worth coming regularly, is it? I’ll come when I have a problem.
Your six teeth are probably very important for you. Maybe they secure or stabilise a denture? Maybe they are your best teeth for biting? Perhaps loss of one would necessitate a new dental arrangement to be provided for you? They are precious. Keep them while you can. We can help you to maintain them as long as possible.

Those who do leave it till they have a problem almost invariably say they won’t leave it to chance ever again. All that happens is that disease, which often is “quiet” in the mouth, develops unnoticed by the patient until it reaches a point where help from the professionals to cure pain is suddenly required. The emergency case has to be seen at the Practice’s chosen time and it often entails further visits.

Please let us examine your mouth regularly, normally 6 monthly and no longer than 12 monthly. Please take notice of our recommendations – we want the best for you, as do you.

 

FRESH BREATH – HEALTHY MOUTH
How often have you noticed that someone can be close to you, speaking to you, and you just want to avoid his breath because it’s faintly unpleasant at the least or foetid at worst?

But your breath is always fine isn’t it? No-one says anything so it must be OK. Heard that one before?

Especially in those over 35 to 40, the tendency to unpleasant odours can be due to bacterial action on specks of debris between your teeth and under gum level. So you just brush – right? Well, you can try, and you can spray deodorisers in your mouth and so on. But the odours will creep back.

So what can you do? Come to us. We will help you manage any breath problems, and we can give advice, even if it’s not of mouth-based origin.

Early or late gum disease is often around in breath problem cases. Trouble is, do you know gum disease when you see it? Can you feel it? Most people have absolutely no idea that they have either a gum or breath problem.

Those who are aware of their bad breath have got really bad breath. Do you want to wait until then?

95% of bad breath or halitosis is caused by bacterial action in the mouth. Complex chemical changes occur and smelly volatile sulphur compounds (VSCs) are produced.

TRY THIS: Lick the back of your wrist. Wait 30 seconds. Sniff gently. If there is a whiff of bad breath, it is revealed.

OR: Run some dental floss through a back tooth space. Remove carefully. Put under nose (yours preferably) and sniff.

It is no good just camouflaging with a nice minty spray, rinse or whatever. You must get to the real cause. And the cause is mouth bacteria plus trapped debris, even just tiny amounts.

Learn how to manage the problem efficiently with some help from us on a regular basis and some daily DIY. Easy prevention.

What’s all this stuff about bad breath? Mine’s OK. Well, nobody’s complained. Yet.
A surprising proportion of the population has bad breath (or halitosis) and is unaware. Generally, we are too polite and feel embarrassed about mentioning bad breath to our acquaintances at work, to our friends, and not often enough to our immediate family.

Bad breath may be due to food and tobacco use. More cases, though, are due to bacterial activity. Mouth sprays and medications only hide the cause.

We can help you cure or manage it. Easily.