I will highly recommend prevention anywhere. One thing about caries which eat up our teeth, it's highly infectious in the sense that if you have a slight hole in your mouth and you decide to neglect it.
Over the years, the hole keeps expanding till it gets to the pulp. That's when you begin to feel the pain, an excruciating pain that you can't endure anymore.
Most people go for pain killers which will help subside the pain for some time but the moment your body gets used to that pain killer then you need a higher dose of pain killers to subside the pain.
Now let me tell you what happens in your mouth when you have a hole which might be there over the years without any pain.
As the hole in your mouth begins to expand more, the opposing teeth which are healthy are in danger, so it transfers to the next healthy tooth and begins to eat that up little by little and it doesn't stop there. It keeps transferring to the next and the next tooth more and more. If you are not careful enough, you might not just be losing one tooth but more than one.
The more you wait and endure the pain you keep endangering yourself and treatment. For some, they might not want to extract the tooth, then they go for Root canal therapy which isn't cheap. Some will keep using some tooth powder and at the end of the day, they end up with swallowed cheeks.
Some might lock their jaws and the treatment isn't cheap. So the more you wait, the more money you spend.
I highly recommend, if you have a hole in your mouth, don't neglect it or feel it is not painful, let it just be there. No, you're wrong. Visit a dentist to fill up that tooth and stand the chance to save the tooth and not endanger others too.
If you have a toothache, please visit a dentist. Don't rely on pain killers, it will surely work but then you're hurting your vital organs by having more of it in your system.
So visit a dentist, maintain high oral hygiene. Make sure to blush morning and evening especially in the evening after eating.
Always have a routine scaling and polishing (S&P) it should be done at least twice in a year.
Always use dental floss in place of tooth picks. One thing about tooth picks, it creates a food pocket for you, you might be creating a slight hole in your tooth in the process of picking out the attached meat particles in-between your teeth.
Most times, I wonder why people use hard blush, from the conversation I had with some of my patients. Most of them say, it blushes my teeth well.
Well, the truth is that you are creating more harm to yourself. Hard blush exposes your root by wearing away the gingival area gradually. You expose your roots and you begin to feel sensitive any time you take water. You feel sensitivity because you expose the dentine. If you use hard blush, stop it today. I recommend medium, hard blush is mostly for patients with dentures, they wash their dentures using the hard blush.
Even after using the blush don't you feel this discomfort each time.
Stay healthy.
Your smile is my priority.