Coming off the high of the holidays, you likely don’t want to get dental care right now. Other tasks may sound more appealing as you adjust to the new year. Even so, you should make that next trip to the dentist; you’ll face various problems if you skip a dental cleaning. Your Wylie practice can even prove these facts with solid and relevant evidence. To that end, here are four viable dangers of skipping a dental cleaning.
Undetected Oral Cancer
If you don’t attend your dental cleaning, you may end up with undetected oral cancer. The latter wouldn’t be worth any time and money saved in the short-term.\
Modern dental cleanings actually screen patients for oral cancer. Indeed, dentists will check your mouth for relevant signs and symptoms as they clean your teeth and gums. That means skipping your visit might give oral cancer a chance to grow and spread through your body. In doing so, this condition would become untreatable and probably cause an early death.
A Higher Risk of Cavities
Without a dental cleaning, your teeth are almost certain to suffer. They’ll develop a higher risk of cavities as they don’t get help from a dentist.
Brushing and flossing are great oral habits, but they can’t remove all the harmful bacteria in your mouth. A toothbrush can’t reach certain parts of your smile very well, and the same goes for dental floss. Relying only on them would cause plaque to build on your teeth, making tooth decay more likely. You could then develop severe issues requiring root canals or tooth extractions.
Potential Gum Infection
Of course, it isn’t just your pearly whites that face danger without dental visits. Skipping a trip to your dentist can also lead to a gum infection.
The area below your gumline is one of your mouth’s hard-to-reach places. As such, plaque can easily wedge itself into that area and slowly start to spread. Failing to attend your cleaning would give such plaque a chance to inflame and infect your gums. Should that happen, you’d develop gum disease and suffer from issues like bleeding gums, gum recession, or even tooth loss.
Poorer Physical Health
A skipped cleaning would even impact your whole body. Indeed, it’d almost certainly prompt you to have poorer physical health.
Research now shows a link between your oral health and physical health. More specifically, it indicates that harmful mouth bacteria can travel to the rest of your body. Such movement – usually via the bloodstream – can increase your risk of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, etc. These sorts of problems would inevitably force your body to decline.
To avoid the downsides above, don’t skip your next dental cleaning. Arrive for your visit on time, eager to have your smile transformed.
About the Practice
Wylie Family Dentistry is based in Wylie, TX. Led by Dr. Roger Morton, our practice seeks to make your smile thrive for a lifetime. We thus offer comprehensive dental care for all ages, serving patients, seniors, and everyone in between. Whether your grin needs preventive, cosmetic, or restorative help, our team is here to get the job done! For more details or to book a visit, please contact us on our website or by phone at (972)-442-5599.