How to take care of my Sheen Dental Implants Richmond?
We’re so pleased that you’ve taken the giant leap into a new lifestyle by having Sheen dental implants in Richmond fitted. Your new free life without anxiety about your teeth is just beginning, and so finally you can breathe a sigh of relief and carry on living your normal day-to-day life. It’s very important though that you take your new smile seriously – if not taken care of you could find yourself back where you started, and we really don’t want that for you. Here’s our guide in keeping your dental implants in tip top condition.
Oral hygiene
Every case of tooth loss is individual and sometimes we lose teeth for reasons beyond our control; however, more often than not people don’t have adequate oral hygiene in place. We’ve often seen people through the media doing a casual back and forth tooth brush and frankly – this isn’t going to cut it. Oral hygiene should be a minimum of twice daily routine with a good scrub and an intimate floss.
Electric or manual?
It’s a tough one – studies show that those who do use an electric toothbrush have better oral health, less gum disease and less tooth decay. However, not all families are able to get electric toothbrushes and frankly you don’t need one. It’s often that people aren’t using the correct technique.
When you brush your teeth you should be spending a minimum of thirty seconds per quarter of the mouth and making sure you cover all angles of the tooth, inside, outside and top. But also and this is the important bit – You need to make sure you’re scrubbing the gum line, with a circular motion! The gum line is where all the nasty bugs and bacteria collect, multiply, solidify and then turn into tartar and plaque which cause gum disease and tooth decay. And don’t think having your Sheen dental implants in Richmond fitted will make you immune – no, you need to be taking even more care to keep these false teeth healthy at the gums.
To floss or not to floss?
Floss. Always floss. Floss and interdental brushes (small plastic brushes with mini soft head bristles attached) are specially designed to get to the hard to reach areas in your mouth and remove and nasty buildups of bacteria on your gum line. If you don’t floss you can quickly build up plaque that you won’t likely be able to see as it’s in the gum line already and so won’t realise anything is wrong. Which leads us to the next point…
Come and see us
The team at sheen dental implants are ready and waiting for your next check up. We’re so happy and proud to be part of your Sheen dental Implants in Richmond journey and want you to have many, many, many years of beautiful smiles from your new teeth. Often people can get complacent with making regular trips to the dentist and we understand why, we all have busy lives but that one checkup could get to an issue a little quicker which could make correcting an issue a much smaller job than if it’s left. Prevention over cure as they say.