Keep your teeth for life: Wellness experience teeth cleaning The mouth contains bacteria and is a dynamic environment. Day and night, there is significant activity taking place between different types of bacteria. Some of these bacteria can become unstable and gain the upper hand over balanced, health-promoting bacteria, in time resulting in conditions like caries, bad breath, and / or gum inflammation, with signs of bleeding or spaces or openings surrounding the teeth under the gum line. This often necessitates thorough teeth cleaning, or more. Dr Marcel Donnet and Dr Neha Dixit discuss oral hygiene and the importance of teeth cleaning to maintain physical wellness.

Keeping your teeth for life? Who doesn’t care about their health? But do you know that systemic health is related to oral health? In fact, the mouth is the gateway for external attacks by bacteria and viruses entering the body. Poor oral hygiene is typically characterized by signs of redness of the gingiva, bleeding gums, pain, caries, etc. subjecting the body to multiple systemic risks. Here authors, Dr. Neha Dixit and Dr. Marcel Donnet explore that Professional teeth cleaning is essential for maintaining oral hygiene and reducing risk of caries, any tooth decay, periodontal or peri-implant disease. To boost the health of the oral cavity, it is strongly recommended that we perform regular oral hygiene, which includes professional teeth cleaning. Dental prevention combines daily home care and regular professional teeth cleaning. The main objective is to keep the oral cavity healthy and reduce the risk of caries, any tooth decay or periodontal or peri-implant disease.

Keep your teeth for life, but how? Drs Marcel Donnet and Neha Dixit discuss the importance of teeth cleaning and how the innovative AIRFLOW® PLUS powder can tackle biofilm and safeguard oral health. Researchers have long discussed the importance of teeth cleaning and the link between a healthy mouth and providing a good foundation for a healthy body. Luckily, the association between oral and overall health is becoming increasingly well-known. Together with researchers and clinicians, EMS has developed Guided Biofilm Therapy (GBT) to completely remove plaque (also known as biofilm) and calculus. In eight steps, patients are diagnosed, motivated by disclosing and treated to a wellness-like experience. Here, Drs Donnet and Dixit look to the challenges associated with teeth cleaning, how dentists can remove biofilm, and whether powder have any negative impacts or damage the tooth surface or structure. Overall, they argue that from the patient’s point of view, their methods will provide the most comfortable, pain-free treatment option for effective teeth cleaning.

Keeping your teeth for life: Why use a disclosing agent? Dr. Neha Dixit and Dr. Marcel Donnet argue that you can't ignore what you see when it comes to keeping your teeth for life. Particular focus is given to Guided Biofilm Therapy and the use of a disclosing agent. Maintaining a healthy mouth is a never-ending battle, with the activity of the bacteria in the mouth never stopping. Therefore, an effective strategy is needed to keep our teeth for life and win this battle. In this matter, the key phrase is “good teamwork” between the patient and the dental professional delivering professional teeth cleaning.