Hygiene Visit

What is a dental hygienist?

Your Highworth dental hygienist offers personal oral health care and specialist advice to help you maintain the best dental hygiene, specifically gum health.

What role does the hygienist play?

To professionally clean, scale and polish your teeth. More importantly as an expert, your Highworth hygienist or Highworth dentist will show you the most effective way to keep your teeth free of plaque, with additional advice on diet and ways to prevent tooth decay and affordable dental payment plans from Denplan. Your hygienist can help prepare your gums for additional restorative dental work to be performed by your dentist. Together your dentist and your hygienist provide tailored dental care to suit your individual needs.

What other dental services can a hygienist offer?

Dental hygienists are qualified to take dental x-rays and can carry out fissure sealants (often referred on by your dentist) Fluoride treatment is available for adults and your hygienist can offer anti-bacterial gels and solutions to be applied under the gum to kill bacteria which causes gum disease.

What are the benefits of maintaining good oral hygiene?

With regular professional teeth cleaning and your own dental home care your mouth will be kept healthy. Clean teeth help improve your appearance and your confidence, and you will have a fresher breath.

Will the treatment hurt?

Normally pain-free, scaling and polishing may cause discomfort. Make sure you inform your hygienist in Swindon if you are concerned as they can apply anaesthetic creams or local anaesthetic to keep you comfortable.

Can a hygienist help prevent dental disease?

Through the careful removal of tartar build up on your teeth and by showing you how to prevent tartar from returning, your hygienist can help slow down the progress of gum disease.

With regular visits and when you follow preventative dentistry advice you will maintain better oral health and achieve a healthy mouth.

What help is available for children?

Teeth polishing, fluoride gel and solutions application (to prevent decay) are available for children. One benefit for a child’s permanent back teeth is to have the biting surfaces sealed, by applying a special plastic coating to the surface once they come through.

How can I help my hygienist?

Turn the advice of your Swindon hygienist or Swindon dentist into a daily habit now that you have been shown how to remove plaque with a toothbrush and fluoride toothpaste and how to clean between your teeth with floss, tape or interdental brushes.

Act on the recommendations offered by your hygienist about the right oral care products such as specialist toothpastes, powered toothbrushes and mouthwashes, to help take excellent care of your teeth and gums.

Remember to:

• brush your teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste
• reduce your intake of sugary snacks and drinks to lessen decay
• chew sugar-free gum after meals to prevent tooth decay
• visit your dentist once a year.

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