General Dentistry

We all need to visit the dentist regularly. At East Bentleigh Dental Practice, we recommend that you visit us every six months for a check-up and a deep clean with our team of hygienists.

Check-ups are necessary as it is important to main optimum oral health to treat any issues as they arise. We don’t all need significant treatment but we all need the confidence that our dentist will treat each patient, no matter how minor the treatment, with the same precision as they would a complex task.

We use digital x-rays and an intra-oral camera whose results are visible on screen. This allows you to see what treatment is necessary.

You may need complex restorative work or you may need a simple filling, root canal therapy or extraction. You may just need a scaling, deep clean or a fresh breath solution. Even for a simple check-up, filling or clean, you are always kept in the highest comfort.

An important part of the effort in maintaining your optimum oral health is in the proper maintenance of your hygiene routine and the basic care of your teeth. Brushing twice daily with fluoride toothpaste and flossing once a day are a fundamental part of a successful oral routine.

Fluoride is an effective component in the prevention of tooth decay, allowing for teeth to remineralise more effectively and consequently strengthen them against decay.  It is commonly accepted that fluoride, when added to toothpaste, has a beneficial effect on the strength and longevity of oral health.

Water fluoridation has been a controlled effort on the part of the authorities, to increase the amount of fluoride available in the public water supply. A cause for much discussion, the addition of fluoride to public water supply has raised issues in terms of the individual choice made by people to ingest fluoride on a regular basis, and also in its suggested level of effectiveness in being beneficial to dental condition.

Possible problems suggested by the addition of fluoride to water supply has included the development of dental fluorosis in young children, which in its most severe form, can produce black or brown stains as well as potentially cracking the teeth. This is, however, relatively uncommon.

 According to recent dental research, the greatest benefits of fluoride are to be achieved, not through the ingestion of the compound in water, but rather in the topical application of the substance. Fluoride can be applied in a number of ways, either professionally, through the use of a fluoride varnish, gel or foam, or alternatively in the form of toothpaste which is used with ease, at home.

It is our goal to provide you with the very best in Cosmetic, Restorative and General Dentistry, performed to the highest standards in the utmost comfort. East Bentleigh Dental Group is focused on giving you the best possible result.

If you would like to know more about General Dentistry, would like to book a check-up or a visit with our hygienist, please contact us now for a consultation.

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