subject: Have You Had Your 6 Month Dental Checkup? [print this page] Dentistry is mostly associated with regular 6 month checkups and general cleaning. Even though this is considered to be the easiest and the dental treatments with the least amount of work involved it is probably the most important of all dentistry treatments.
General Dentistry is basically a foothold for dentistry treatment, at the end of the day the dentist would be much happier to see your teeth and gums healthy and only needing minor dental work done on them, than you having a poor dental health and needing more serious treatments such as implants; after all the saying does go prevention is cheaper than the cure, and this is certainly true in terms of dentistry
The most popular procedures in general dentistry include filling cavities, root canal treatment, tooth repair and a general clean upkeep of your teeth. If you are facing a problem of tooth cavity, your dentist will remove the bad tissue and damaged enamel and make sure that the whole tooth is clean and sterile for the next part of the process to take place. This is followed by a cavity filling, with tooth coloured fillings. In a root canal treatment, your dentist will drill a small hole into your tooth so that they can effectively remove the damaged and diseased pulp and root, and clean the inside of the tooth.
Root canals are often associated with the most painful part of dentistry and it is essential that you undergo treatment for it as soon as you feel any pain whatsoever so that is does not have the chance to get worse and result in tooth extraction. General cleaning of the teeth is probably the most important part of all the treatments, a dentist can get to places in your mouth that you would struggle to clean. They can also guide you in how to keep an optimum mouth cleanliness and how to brush your teeth effectively to remove all plaque.
