Allowing your gums to bleed helps create cavities and inflamed gums – pockets develop under the gum-line filled with bacteria that eat away the teeth and eventually the bone causing tooth loss. <\/span>Regular visits to the dentist can ensure proper maintenance of your gum health and prevent the development of serious problems through early treatment.<\/p>\n

Tooth Pain<\/span><\/h3>\n

Tooth pain is most often caused by cavities forming. Once a cavity reaches the stage where it is causing pain then root canal treatment (or possibly tooth loss) is more likely, or an extensive filling. Regular check-ups ensure that the beginnings of a filling can be identified, treated and additional brushing routines created.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall dental check-ups will dramatically decrease the potential for all oral health problems to become serious. They also provide a cost-effective alternative to covering expenses for costly major dental treatments like tooth replacements, crowns, and gum repair.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the major issues facing dentists, patients and patients wallets is that the majority of us don’t visit the dentist on a regular basis. According to research from NHS Digital (previously the Health and Social Care Information Centre) half of UK adults haven’t been to the dentist in the last two years. More than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":14399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[72,516,70,71],"class_list":["post-14398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oral-health","tag-dental-care","tag-dental-check-ups","tag-oral-care","tag-oral-health"],"yoast_head":"\n