Take a look at your teeth. How do they feel? Good? Mildly sore? Extremely sensitive? Whatever their feeling, it’s essential that you get excellent dental care. Having someone extremely knowledgeable about this area with years of experience can really put you on the track toward having excellent teeth and gums. Because bad teeth can lead to health problems both immediately and down the road.

An early problem you may encounter is gingivitis. Consider this an early warning signal that more complications could follow. The main cause of this is allowing too much build up of plaque and tartar on the gums. At this early stage you can easily prevent a worsening condition by deciding on a competent dentist who will work out the best dental care program to start reversing this. After gingivitis has set in if no treatment is really being done the next phase would be periodontitis. Other health issues can be diabetes, oral cancer and even dementia. With a good dental team this doesn’t need to happen. There are continual technological advances in dentistry that will assist you to take preventative and curative steps for gum disease at early and even later stages.

Your first indication that something needs to be done for your teeth is extra sensitivity or pain, whether this is fleeting or lasting. Don’t ignore these signs or falsely attribute them. It is your body’s way to let you know that something is wrong and that you need to do something about it.

When it comes to finding a dentist, word of mouth is the most common, whether it’s from a friend, family member or co-worker. When you’re researching a dentist, you want to make sure that the dentist is current in their training. Do they have a higher percentage of genuinely good reviews? After that, once you’ve decided on meeting a dentist, you want to see signs that he or she has done a careful study of your dental situation beforehand and also listens closely to what you say and feel and factors that into whatever plan of action that they formulate after the visit. Then you want to see how they are after the visit – do they have the office follow up to make sure that you follow through on what you were told to do – and they do it until satisfied that you are indeed adhering to instructions?