Oral hygiene & prevention

Keeping your teeth and gums clean is the best way to prevent dental problems such as gum desease, caries, bad breath, amongst others.

Our oral hygiene and prevention team is trained to provide you a personalised dental cleaning and prevention regime based on your individual needs.

Just cleaning your teeth?

The dental hygienist is trained to use special instruments that can clean underneath your gums and in other areas that are difficult clean by yourself. However, just getting your teeth cleaned up by the hygienist is not enough. Helping you to discover were you are not cleaning well and teaching you how to clean efficiently at home is one of our main goals. Prevention is better than healing and detecting the factors that may cause problems in your teeth and gums results in great benefits for your oral health and general health, such as:

• Reduced risk for caries (cavities)
• Reduced risk of gum desease (bleeding, swollen or painful gums)
• Reduced risk for bad breath (halitosis)
• Reduced costs for dental services. (Less and shorter appointments, less chances for dental treatments)
• Increased longevity for fillings, crowns, implants or other dental treatments.
• Health benefits related to deseases such as diabetes, heart desease and others.

Prevention is better than cure. Placing implants, making dental fillings, dental crowns, etc are all treatments that could be avoided by a good oral hygiene a having regular dental cleanings. Our team of dental hygienists are trained in the latest preventive dentistry protocols which are also the most cost-effective methods for keeping your teeth and gums healthy.

At the Smile Gallery, we are focused on developing a customised oral hygiene and prevention regime for each one of our patients. Many people need cleanings every six months to keep their teeth and gums healthy. But, if you’re prone to cavities or gum disease, your Hygienist and Dentist may need to see you more often. For example, it’s common for people with gum disease to see their dentist every three to four months. This is because oral bacteria populates quicker in some individuals. Therefore, our team is also trained on diet analysis, bacteriology tests and identification of risk factors for dental deseases.