subject: The Advantages Of Scheduling A Preventative Visit With Your Ottawa Dentist [print this page] Most people do not like visiting their Ottawa dentist unless it is absolutely necessary. After all, these visits can be quite expensive if you do not have dental insurance, and many of the procedures you may require can be uncomfortable or even painful. Unfortunately, while people's hesitance to visit their Ottawa dentist may be understandable, this hesitance can also be primary reason behind many of the dental issues that these individuals face later in life. This is because many of the most common dental problems can easily be avoided with regular preventative dental care. In order to help demonstrate how important preventative dental care can be, I would like to take this time to share with you a few of the advantages of scheduling a preventative visit with your Ottawa dentist.
Advantage #1: A preventative visit to your Ottawa dentist can make diagnosing oral cancer much easier.
One of the primary goals of preventative visits to your dentist is to allow your dentist to develop a baseline of your oral health, which they can then use as a diagnostic tool for future visits. By allowing your dentist to examine your mouth thoroughly during a time in which you are in good oral health, it will be much easier for your dentist to identify any changes to your mouth on your following visits. This is a very important analytic tool when attempting to diagnose oral cancer in its earlier stages. While we all certainly hope that we will never have to face oral cancer, if this situation should arise the ability to diagnose this disease in the early stages could mean the difference between life and death.
Advantage #2: Utilizing preventative dental care will allow you to keep your dental bills to a minimum.
Whether you have dental insurance or not, you are always going to pay a heftier amount for the more invasive dental procedures, than you will for simple preventative care. Since people who fail to use preventative care as a major part of their oral health plan tend to require far more invasive dental procedures, choosing not to utilize these services could actually end up costing you more in the long run. In fact, people who schedule regular appointments with their primary dentist average 50% lower dental bills than those who do not make these regular appointments. So even if you do not wish to use this approach to your dental care to prevent dental problems, you may wish to consider it as a legitimate money saving opportunity.
Advantage #3: The ability to diagnose oral problems in their earliest stages can prevent unnecessary pain.
It is said that there is no pain quite like tooth pain. The reason that many people share this opinion is because the pain associated with a severely decayed tooth can be quite intense. In most cases, this is because the root or nerve of the tooth has become exposed due to the decay. Since it is rare that any of our body's other nerves will ever come into direct contact with the air, it is understandable that this pain would be described as being unlike any other pain you had ever felt. Luckily, this pain is often avoidable, even if you do experience dental problems such as tooth decay. This is because there is often a window of several months from the time the decay begins before it will reach a level of the tooth that will cause you pain. Making regular appointments with your dentist will ensure that this decay is found and treated before it can begin to cause you unbearable pain. In my opinion, this advantage alone is well worth the trip to your Ottawa dentist.
