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If you want to make sure that you have healthy gums and teeth, there are two very important things to do. First, you must make sure that you have an excellent at-home teeth cleaning regimen that includes brushing and flossing on a daily basis. Then you will want to make sure that you come into our dental practice for regularly scheduled teeth cleanings. We encourage our patients to schedule teeth cleanings at the same time that they have their regular dental checkups. Teeth cleaning in Bolinbrook is a very important way to help prevent gum disease. We find that when patients schedule teeth cleaning in advance, they are sure to remember to get the preventive dental service that they need.
At our dental practice, Derrick L. Williamson, DDS our expert dentist is Dr. Derek L. Williamson – a specialist in implants, and aesthetic and reconstructive dentistry. Dr. Williamson specializes in crowns, bridges, cosmetic dentistry and implant restoration. However, when patients have regularly scheduled teeth cleanings, they are much less likely to ever lose their teeth to gum disease and need tooth replacement. When patients brush their teeth, no matter how diligently, some plaque and bacteria always remains behind. When this plaque is allowed to say on teeth for even a short amount of time, tartar will form. Tartar is a hard, mineralized substance that can only be removed from teeth using instruments that are used during dental cleanings. If tartar is allowed to stay on teeth, it will encourage the development of deep pockets to form between the teeth and gums. Plaque, bacteria, tartar, and food debris will all gather in these deep pockets and gum disease and infection will form. A regularly scheduled teeth cleaning in Bolingbrook will keep this from occurring.
While gum disease can be caused by several different factors, keeping your teeth clean with a regularly scheduled teeth cleaning in Bolingbrook, will go a long way toward helping to keep your teeth and gums healthy. Once gum disease forms, and there are deep pockets between your teeth and gums, you will most likely need to have a periodontal treatment of scaling and root planing to get your gums back on the road to good health. If you would like to meet with our dentist, simply contact our office today.
By Derrick Williamson DDS MS PC
May 26, 2016
