Your dentist and hygienist should both be vital members of your general health and wellbeing routine. Harley Street Dental Clinic offers a range of general dentistry services which help to protect not just your oral health, but can help to keep your whole body in healthy condition.
Good dental hygiene is important to keeping your teeth and gums in good condition, of course, but when you think about it you can see why healthy teeth and gums help to protect your whole body. We need good, strong teeth to bite and chew food so that we can get all the nutrients we need to stay fit and strong. Failure to visit your dentist and hygienist on a regular basis is a major contributory factor to premature tooth loss.
At Harley Street Dental Clinic we fully understand that the thought of visiting the dentist can be a terrifying prospect for some people, enough to bring on a panic attack. Dental phobia and anxiety are common conditions – if you suffer from it you may feel isolated, but in fact one in ten people is so nervous about visiting the dentist that they just don’t go at all.
The team at our Harley Street clinic fully empathises with the needs of phobic and nervous patients. We are committed to working with every patient as an individual to help them devise their own unique route back to good oral health. This may involve using in-chair entertainment, such as listening to your favourite radio show or watching a film, to take your mind off treatment, or carrying out any required procedures under conscious sedation.
Fighting gum disease involves team work between you, your dentist, and your hygienist. Gum disease is very common and is easy to treat if caught early. However, if left untreated it can lead to tooth loss. It has also been linked to a number of serious general health conditions, including heart and lung disease and diabetes, so preventing and/or treating it is essential.
The team at Harley Street Dental clinic includes periodontal specialists, who can treat even advanced cases of gum disease successfully.