It is important to know that cleaning calculus without a proper diagnosis is both UNSUCCESSFUL and INEFFICIENT!
Are you one of the unlucky ones that the dentist removes dental tartar from “in passing”, during a routine examination, which makes you happy that your teeth are doing well? Unfortunately, I have to tell you that this is not the solution. Most often, only the areas of the gums are cleaned, meaning that the areas below gum level remain uncleaned, allowing the disease to smoothly progress into the depths of your teeth.
In order to identify the degree of parodontal disease, its treatment, and maintenance, a precise systematic review and inventory of the state of your periodontal tissues (periodontal state) is a necessary process.
In order to implement it, you must primarily turn to modern periodontal diagnostics, which provides the basis for further individual personalised treatment, yielding optimal results. Simultaneously, such diagnostics later enables us to estimate the success of your treatment and determine the frequency of future maintenance.
Your teeth will not remain in your mouth because they are white; they will only do so if your gums are healthy, and you must take appropriate care of them.
We clean our teeth like robots, by repeating the same movements all our lives, while also avoiding the same spots. Calculus accumulates on your teeth due to inefficient process of removing soft dental plaque, deposited every day on the spot where the tooth meets the gum. It is a consequence of inappropriate and inaccurate oral hygiene; while harmless on its own, it is the reason for the appearance of calculus that will ultimately harm your teeth—accumulation of plaque and bacteria causing soft tissues surrounding your teeth to decay. Inappropriate teeth cleaning will therefore lure you into a vicious circle that only proper professional treatment can get you out of.
I have no issues; I regularly see my dentist, I brush my teeth twice daily, I even floss from time to time, and I don't have any visible dental plaque. Why do I need professional teeth cleaning?
We all have bacteria in our mouths, all the time. There is a balance between them: some of them are good, others are bad, but they are all needed in order for you to maintain bacterial oral flora and the immune system. The fact is that these bacteria multiply for hours, thus creating biofilm.
Did you know that your gums are not attached to your teeth in the line that we see? There is an empty space called the groove between your gums and teeth. Due to the warm and moist environment, the composition of biofilm turns into a breeding ground of bad bacteria in 3 to 6 months, in spite of appropriate hygiene, which causes gum inflammation and decay of bones around your teeth. Therefore, every day efforts will not suffice: you must also make sure to regularly remove biofilm from the space under the gum.
Your gums don't bleed when you brush your teeth, but they do bleed when you floss?
Nowadays, hardly anyone doesn’t brush their teeth twice a day. In spite of your consistency, only half of the work is done when it comes to preventing serious gum diseases. If you bleed when you floss, this is a sign of gum inflammation in the interdental space. In the initial stage, as the inflammation is only limited to your gums, we call it gingivitis; it can easily get transferred to the underlying bone, however. Undiagnosed and inadequately treated gingivitis leads to more serious diseases of periodontal tissues, i.e. periodentosis.
What if your gums bleed when you brush your teeth?
Sound the alarm! Most likely, we are talking about a severe form of gum inflammation developed due to inaccurate brushing, absence of cleaning of interdental spaces, or superficial and inconsistent treatment.
You can never "take a break"!
The only guarantee of a successful cooperation is regular and precise teeth cleaning; merely removing calculus will not protect you from tooth decay. As a professional, my job is to regularly clean biofilm from hard-to-reach areas and to remove calculus from the spots that you often miss; your job, however, is to maintain impeccable and regular oral hygiene. Together, we’re responsible for a successful outcome.