Question

Everyday, patients see and hear advertisements in the media for products that will clean, polish, whiten, and remove stains from their teeth. While some of these products are effective, some are not. What do you reply to a person who states that they do not have to seek professional dental care since all these products are available over the counter?

Answer 1

By delivering a good advice we can make the person to understant that it is necessary to visit a professional dentist.

The following points can be include in advices,

1. Having a dental visit 6 months once is very important for your healthy oral care.
2. You can find out the tooth damage in its erlier stage and treat it to prevent the complete decay of the tooth.
3. It will help you to findout the actual reason of the stains.
4. Eventhough there are many stain removing and cleaning products are available in this market also only a professional dentist can findout what is athe actual cause of stain and clean all the parts of the oral cavity.
5. Some of the products contains dangerous chemicals which can damage your tooth and cause some dangerous diseases in future.
6. Only a proffessional dentist can findout the presence of micro organisms.
7. Visiting professional dentist will help you to detect some fatal diseases in its early stage. Eg: oral Cancer
8. Only a proffessional dentist can findout wheather tooth extraction is needed or not in a purticular situation.Because if a tooth is being decayed that can damade other healthy tooth also by spreading the infection.
9. Visiting a professional dentist will help you to find probles under the surface with X-ray which will help you to findout the bone decay,swelling,cysts etc.