“Live Mouth
Smart” is a theme for world oral health day which aims to highlight the
importance of oral health for a healthy body. Dentistry now a day has taken up
by leaps and bounds. Advances in clinical care in dentistry have been vivid,
but the profession for decades has strived to outline its more general
relationship to patient health, specifically the importance of oral health to
general health. Preventive approach in
dental practice has been cited as a reason for caries decline in recent decades
and as a major part of the service-mix of dental practices in the future.
Preventive
dental care is the key goal of your oral health care and should be performed on
a regular basis to ensure a lifelong healthy smile. The goal of Woodbridge
Smiles is to help patients maintain their oral health, as well as to help avoid
dental problems in the future. Preventive dental care is an important part of
an excellent quality of life, now and as you age and negligence of these will
leads to disastrous outcomes such as gums diseases, dental caries etc. We at Woodbridge
Smiles provide preventive treatment in three categories i.e. primary, secondary
and tertiary prevention techniques, which can involve patient- or
professionally applied methods. These include: oral hygiene (instruction), pit
and fissure sealants (‘temporary’ or ‘permanent’), fluoride applications
(patient- or professionally applied), dietary assessment and advice
(modification), other measures to help remineralize demineralized tissue and
other measures to help modify the biofilm to reduce the cariogenic challenge.
Primary
prevention consists of measures which prevent the development of the clinical
signs of caries in the absence of disease, i.e. prevent the initiation of the
disease. Secondary prevention focuses on the rapid and effective treatment of
disease at an early stage and includes measures which arrest and reverse and
both the progression of caries after initiation of clinical signs. Tertiary
prevention includes measures which remove the irreversible tooth damage and
replace it in such a way as to prevent further caries progression.
Visiting our
Woodbridge Smiles, for clinical examination and professional dental cleaning
twice a year gives us the opportunity to spot dental problems early on and
screen for caries, gum disease and dietary advice. Highlighting problems early
can save time and money down the road.
Woodbridge Smiles
14904 Jefferson Davis Hwy Suite 304
Woodbridge, VA 22191
Phone: 703-910-4805