What To Expect When Visiting Our Dental Hygienist?

14/08/2024

What To Expect When Visiting Our Dental Hygienist?

Keeping your teeth looking bright and healthy is an ongoing task. It involves brushing twice daily, flossing, and making the right lifestyle choices. Another important step in the constant mission of maintaining your smile’s health should be visiting a dental hygienist! 

You may already visit the dentist often and believe there’s probably very little difference or benefit in going to see a professional hygienist. It’s easy to assume that all they do is clean your teeth. 

Although hygienists do clean teeth, hygiene treatments achieve a much deeper level of cleanliness than you can get from your brush and toothpaste. But that’s not all you can expect from a trip to see our hygienist. 

To help you understand hygiene treatments and the benefits of making regular appointments with a professional dental hygienist, we’ve compiled this guide. Read on to learn more about what to expect. 

Why Come for a Dental Hygiene Treatment?

Regular brushing with a soft toothbrush and fluoride toothpaste helps fight plaque bacteria, strengthen teeth, and prevent tartar build-up. 

Even if you have a good brushing technique and follow your hygiene routine, you may still develop tartar patches in certain areas of your smile. And with the best will in the world, tooth decay and gum disease are always a risk for everyone. 

A Deeper Clean

We use minimally invasive deep-cleaning techniques, such as AirFlow polishing, to remove tartar from hard-to-reach areas of your mouth. Tartar can sometimes accumulate around the edges of your teeth along your gum line, damaging the teeth and irritating your gums. 

Brushing alone is insufficient to remove tartar, and there are no safe home methods. AirFlow polishing uses fine jets of compressed air, water, and powder to break down stains on teeth.

The treatment is brief and pain-free, but the results are outstanding. 

Fresher Breath

A hygiene treatment removes tartar which can trap odours. This leaves your mouth feeling fresh and reduces bad breath. 

A visit to the hygienist every few months will help maintain your fresh, odour-free breath. 

A Brighter Smile

You can also enjoy visible results from your hygiene appointment. After AirFlow polishing, your smile could look brighter and healthier. Having a naturally whiter smile can give you a confidence boost, particularly if staining and discolouration have been an issue. 

For more advanced staining and discolouration, we may recommend a whitening treatment. 

Better Oral Health

Although hygiene treatments have many aesthetic benefits, they ultimately combat tooth decay and gum disease. 

Plaque and tartar are responsible for cavities and gum disease. A deeper cleaning can reduce the negative impact they have. 

Tailored Support and Advice

When you visit our hygienist, you don’t just get the benefit of a deeper clean. We’re also here to provide you with additional care to help you maintain a better standard of dental hygiene at home. 

We can support you with suggestions on ways to improve your brushing technique, tips about the best products to use, and ways to adapt your routine to match your lifestyle. 

Your appointment might also provide a good opportunity to discuss other lifestyle factors that could affect your oral health. We can share advice on smile-friendly diets and quitting smoking. 

Although we’re there to provide hygiene treatments, we can also spot early signs of dental or oral health problems. It may be a few months until your next dental checkup, but spotting these signs may mean an issue can be easily reversed instead of requiring treatment later. 

Dental Hygiene in Sheffield

A regular trip to visit our dental hygienist should be an important aspect of your oral health plan. We can help you maintain your healthy smile or improve your oral health if you’re currently facing dental problems. 

Contact us today to schedule your next hygiene appointment.

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