Preventive dentistry

Even though prevention is mainly connected to children and stopping the advancement of ailments, preventive dentistry has a huge role and importance even for adults. It includes regular dental check-ups which can stop the advancement or completely rehabilitate some of the most common ailments of the oral cavity in their beginning phase, such as tooth decay which is a progressive, infectious disease that advances and can’t be stopped.

Apart from preventing the advancement of an ailment, preventive dentistry can also reveal some serious ailments such as tumors or systemic diseases which show their first signs in the oral cavity before showing at any other systemic level, which is extremely important in early treatment.