What Is Preventive Dentistry?

Preventive dentistry is great way of helping patient keeps a healthy mouth. It helps you to maintain your teeth, and that means you requires to have less dental treatment. Decay and gum disease are the two main causes of tooth loss. The better you prevent or deal with these two problems, the more chance you will have of keeping your teeth for life.

When the dental team and patient work together, this can help to prevent the need for treatment - especially fillings and extractions. Dentist may recommend a course of treatment to get your mouth into good condition, and then work out a ‘maintenance plan' to help you keep it that way.