general dentistry
General dentists provide services related to the general maintenance of oral hygiene and dental health
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Annual control and descaling
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dental x-ray
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caries
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Tooth devitalization
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Other causes of dental pain
Annual control and descaling
It is highly recommended to have your oral condition and gums checked at least once a year.
Some patients with more risk factors for their teeth and gums must have check-ups several times a year, depending on the recommendations of their dentist.
The annual check-up will consist of doing a dental and gum check-up, and comparing it with the last check-up to see if there have been any changes or deterioration. Thus, in one year, it is rare for a dental or gingival problem to deteriorate significantly, and it is thus taken care of in time in the most appropriate way. simpler and less invasive possible.
In order to see if an oral situation has changed in a year, it is best to perform a panoramic x-ray every year (depending on the patient’s age and the care they have had already received) which will make it possible to compare the one made with that of the previous year, and to see in a more direct and safer way if a tooth has been damaged</strong > or if the gum or bone has shrunk. This will also allow you to have your old restorations checked (fillings, composites, Inlay/onlay, crowns, implants) and ensure that they are still waterproof and in good condition. This X-ray will also make it possible to check the position and the growth of the wisdom teeth, and to ensure that they do not damage, under the gum, the teeth on the side if the teeth of wisdom don’t have enough room to get out.
To complete the radiographic assessment, the dentist performs an assessment of the teeth and the mouth using a probe and a oral mirror to check whether problems not visible on the x-ray are present in the mouth.
Gum hygiene is also checked; in the presence of tartar, the dentist will carry out a scaling, and will invite the patient to modify certain dental hygiene methods if necessary (electric brushing? dental floss or interdental brushes? Tooth brushing movement?).
Immediately after the scaling, the dentist carries out a dental polishing using a mechanical brush and a polishing paste.
Air polishing using a cleaning powder propelled with water on the teeth may sometimes be necessary in order to perfect the cleaning and polishing in certain interdental or subgingival areas that are difficult to access .
Most often, scaling is performed once a year, but some patients may, due to the quality of saliva or factors favoring tartar, have a faster creation of tartar and require two to three scalings per year.
In some cases, calculus can be located in sub-gingival areas and cause small periodontal pockets (reservoirs of bacteria between the gum and the dental root) not accessible during brushing by the patient. The dentist will therefore proceed at the same time as the scaling to a subgingival sanitation by localized root planing of these areas so that the tartar does not develop further under the gum.
