Toluca Lake Dentist Arthur Weiss on Essential Dental Hygiene

Dental hygiene is necessary to keep your teeth and gums clean and healthyand free from bacteria. By removing dental plague and tartar from yourteeth you’ll help to prevent cavities and gum disease such as gingivitisoccurring.

Lack of dental hygiene can affect our general health, as poisons fromdecaying teeth and gums are swallowed and infiltrate our organs, leading tomany different illnesses. It’s therefore important to maintain a twice a dayroutine of both cleaning and flossing our teeth.

Bleeding and painful gums, loose teeth and bad breath are often the result oflack of care. Acid from the food we eat must be disposed of, as it cancorrode tooth enamel which leads eventually to cavities forming. It can alsoirritate the gums which if left untreated could result in tooth loss.

Oral hygiene should be taught from the moment the first tooth appears. Thisnot only helps to ensure healthy teeth but will also teach a child that regulardental visits are important and not to be feared. Our vision of old men withwide gummy smiles should not apply in today’s world. The advance intechnology means that dentistry can now provide us with virtually pain freedentistry and a set of beautiful white teeth to cherish throughout ourlifetime.

Bad breath can be extremely distressing, and often the answer is a simplevisit to the dentist to seek his help and advice. Many cases of bad breath arecaused by diseased gums, and this can be rectified by treatment andinstruction on how to avoid future problems.

A diet rich in sugars and processed food will not help with our dentalhygiene. It’s therefore important to eat a well balanced diet of fresh fruit andvegetables, not just to maintain a healthy body, but also to provide all thevitamins and minerals we need to sustain healthy teeth and gums.

Twice a year visits to the dentists will help maintain your teeth and correctany problems immediately before they become serious. Twice daily brushingand flossing will remove unwanted debris, and keep your mouth fresh. Weneed strong teeth in order to enjoy our food, so it makes sense to look afterthem in the same way we look after the rest of our body.Unless you want to eat soft foods for the rest of your life, make sure yourdental hygiene routine is the best it can be.

Toluca Lake dentist Arthur W. Weiss is a general, cosmetic, and implants

dentist and fellow and diplomate of the International Congress of OralImplantologists. He is a published author and expert in prosthodontics, andmember of the American Dental Association.

Dr. Arthur W. Weiss10553 Riverside DriveToluca Lake, CA 91602-2440(818) 762-0694www.arthurweissdds.com