If you have never had a dental exam before, you may wonder what makes the procedure so essential for your oral health. With a regular dental checkup, we can help you maintain good oral health. In today’s blog, your Ankeny, IA, dentist talks about what happens during your regular dental exam.
When You Need a Checkup Visit
How often do you need to see our team for a routine dental exam? We adhere to the American Dental Association (ADA)’s recommendations that adults and kids over the age of two have a regular checkup and cleaning every six months. The issues that threaten your smile, including tooth decay and gum disease, don’t form overnight. Seeing us twice a night increases the chances for an early diagnosis and treatment to prevent discomfort and threats to smile stability. For kids, we can help instill good oral health habits and prevent dental anxiety later in life. This is a visit that truly benefits every member of your family!
Examining Your Teeth and Gums
Our team will not only conduct a visual exam, but we will take a look at your teeth, gums, roots, and more with digital x-rays and intraoral cameras, which provide instant and high-definition images of your smile with high amounts of radiation, bitewings, or lengthy development times. We can walk you through the diagnostic process so you understand what is happening with your smile, and then create a treatment plan with precision and accuracy, so we can address the concerns we discover. We will look for common problems like tooth decay, dental infection, gingivitis, and gum disease. We also watch for TMJ disorder and bruxism (teeth grinding), and for adults, we will screen for oral cancer.
Cleaning Your Teeth
During your visit for a dental checkup, our team will also conduct a dental cleaning. The procedure helps protect the health and stability of your smile. With a cleaning, we use an ultrasonic scaling device and a manual pick to gently and thoroughly remove all plaque and tartar from the surfaces of your teeth. The procedure takes only a few minutes to complete and is essential for keeping your smile healthy and brighter! We then polish the teeth to make it more difficult for harmful plaque and tartar to accumulate before you see us again, and to offer a brighter smile.
If you have any questions about how we safeguard smiles with a checkup, then contact our team today to learn more.
Dental Impressions Protects Smiles with a Routine Dental Checkup
Our team wants to help treat your oral health issues, and to catch them early we offer a routine dental checkup every six months. To schedule an appointment and receive your dental exam, then call Dental Impressions in Ankeny, IA today at (515) 965-0230.
