Not sure if you need a dentist? Let’s look at the cost of failing to invest in proper dental care.
Proper dental care is a guaranteed lifetime health investment because whatever we possess in life will be useless if our health is at risk. Good oral health depends on simple dental care habits. Correct brushing and flossing techniques and regular dental visits but failing to do so is a recipe for deterioration of an individual’s well-being. Giving it of less importance leads to serious problems that affects you as a person, including your confidence and self-esteem. Why? Poor oral hygiene ruins a person’s capability to deal with other people. It ruins you physically, your gums, teeth, soft tissues in the mouth, other surrounding structures and it even affects your systemic health. Specifically it causes bad breath or halitosis. It is so embarrassing talking to different people when you have a bad breath. And if this problem is not enough to disregard. Tooth decay will soon to arise that is caused by bad-forming bacteria in the mouth that greatly affect quality of life and teeth may have to be extracted if not being prevented or treated; gum diseases that destroys the gum and bones, and how it impairs other parts of the body. Proper dental care and appointments are an invest now or regret it later decision. You will not only spend more money but also time and effort. Fixing dental problems before they get worse is always cheaper and we only have one set of permanent teeth in our entire life. Oral health must not be taken for granted. You can replace teeth with different types of dentures or implants which is way more expensive and you have to replace it minimum of 10 years or less (some denturists recommend as little as every three years), but it will never be the same as the natural teeth that can last over 60 years in your mouth, if properly maintained. Nobody wants to suffer years of pain caused by a cavity lodging in your mouth for ages just because you are saving now and you are missing out on the proper dental education, inspection, and supervision. Worse is it will likely result in losing your natural teeth. Many individuals chose to just have their teeth extracted once it gets painful and no plan of replacing the missing areas. Human dentition also has its specific functions too. Without it, how can you aid mastication or chewing as the primary function that helps in the digestion of food for the nutrients needed by our body? By losing or having missing teeth chewing would be difficult and your body will not be able to absorb proper nourishment. Aesthetics is just secondary, but is also very vital. A good smile gives an impressive impression to other people too. Some could spend hundreds of thousands to get their Hollywood smile back well in fact you don’t have to lose any of your teeth to be replaced with dentures. This is another reason why you need to take good care of it as early as possible. Nice teeth make a person younger. Who wouldn’t want that? Missing some of your teeth also affects your way of talking because dentition is made when we speak. Imagine some geriatric patients that lost their teeth, they pronounce words differently and they have collapsed facial profile too. In addition to the cost of failing to invest in proper dental care is known as TMJ (temporomandibular joint) disorder. Misalignment of teeth, incorrect occlusion, and wrong bite are just some of the contributing factors that causes disturbance to the temporomandibular joint and it requires proper assessment and treatment before it gets critical. The oral cavity also consists of structures of the head and neck including nerves and blood vessels that sends signals to and from the brain. Some people could never imagine why there are harmful lesions that developed underneath the tooth, the bone, or any part of the oral cavity that hinders one body part to malfunction that leads to a fatal health issues like an increased risk of systemic diseases as cardiovascular or respiratory problems. Moreover, it has something to do with the oral health too because several medications taken by patients that have medical conditions as mentioned have contraindications or side effects to the mouth aggregating higher risk of oral diseases. These are just a few of the reasons why regular dental visit is very important for every individual to be aware, to be prepared, and know how to prevent and to improve oral health. Those gum diseases that most people ignore and tooth decays that you might think doesn’t need complete attention now, simple tooth brushing that you only do once in a blue moon will soon make you eventually have to face up all the consequences of your negligence to proper dental care.
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