Gum Health

Gums serve a very useful purpose in overall dental and oral health. For most people with balanced diet it merely requires conscientious tooth brushing using well made soft bristle toothbrush and supplemented with nightly flossing. Most people will benefit from regular clinical cleaning done at a good dental practice. An often wrong belief is by the use of commercial mouthwash in substituting good home cleaning efforts and regular dental visits at the dentist office. Dental visits serves as professional assessment of the true state of a person’s gum health.

Teeth help us age well

Keeping our teeth for the long term maintains our jawbones body and bulk. This maintains our cheek and lip profile and hold our youthful look. With good texture of bone it is much easier to maintain our teeth, even when some inevitable losses occurs. Most dental reconstruction and repair have better outcomes and easier implementation if we can maintain better bone bulk. The take home message: Youth is more than pretty white teeth.

Lower facial height is important as we present ourselves to the world with our speech, expressions and smile. We certainly prefer to not have wrinkles or deep folds in the face. With the loss of teeth, especially the back molars we lose “vertical dimension” and we close the lower jaw closer to the upper jaw and the chin point appears to come both upwards and forwards which we see in senior age persons a lot. Wrinkles and deep folds on the lower face appear, giving a typical aged look. Therefore keeping teeth has long term facial youthfulness significance.