In this Wiltshire dental practice, we are serious about Prevention. Are you really serious about avoiding false teeth? Here are six facts:

1. More people lose teeth due to gum disease than to dental decay. Gum disease is widespread, progressive and mostly painless.
2. Certain groups of people are prone to gum disease.
3. There are important links between gum disease and these conditions:
   
   
   • heart disease
   • stroke
   • bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia
   • diabetes
   • smoking
   • alcohol abuse
   • poor diet
   
   Please note:
   Sufferers from gum disease have twice the risk of fatal heart attack than those with healthy gums. They also have a greater risk of respiratory diseases. Pregnant women with gum disease are more likely to have a premature or low birth weight child or have a miscarriage.
   
4. Smoking and alcohol use are linked to oral cancer.
5. Most patients are unaware that there is a disease process progressing in their mouths, because there is usually no pain and no obvious loosening of teeth until very late stages. Your dentist can detect early stages of the disease and help you.
6. Too many patients don’t take us seriously until the disease is obvious enough to cause them to notice. By then, it’s getting almost too late…
   

They are precious. Keep them while you can. We can help you to maintain them as long as possible.

Those who do leave it till they have a problem almost invariably say they won’t leave it to chance ever again. All that happens is that disease, which often is "quiet" in the mouth, develops unnoticed by the patient until it reaches a point where help from the professionals to cure pain is suddenly required. The emergency case has to be seen at the Practice’s chosen time and it often entails further visits.


Please let us examine your mouth regularly, normally 6 monthly and no longer than 12 monthly. Please take notice of our recommendations – we want the best for you, as do you.