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With good hygiene and dental checkups twice a year, you can reasonably expect to avoid cavities altogether.
by Horffupolde 3y ago
With good hygiene and dental checkups twice a year, you can reasonably expect to avoid cavities altogether.
- rewmie 3y ago> With good hygiene and dental checkups twice a year, you can reasonably expect to avoid cavities altogether. Your comment is self-contradicting. The only thing that dental checkups do is allow cavities to be flagged before they progress very far. Also, I feel that in this context "good hygiene" is a weasel word, in the sense that implies that any occurrence of a cavity can only be explained by the absence of good hygiene. There are many factors to cavities that aren't addressed by hygiene, such as vulnerable teeth and cavity types such as root cavities, whose primary risk factor is decreased salivary flow.
- Thimothy 3y agoThat's not true for everybody: people have very different mouth chemistry/ecosystem that depends on diet, genetics and god knows what. Some people can live with brushing teeth once in a blue moon, others will get their teeth eaten by cavities no matter what they do. Your advice is probably OK for the median person, but really does not apply to everyone.
- rowanG077 3y agoI used to believe this. Then I got a Girlfriend who I know brushes twice a day. Yet got cavities relatively often. I don't know why this is but there is a very large factor(or factors) that just makes some people much more vulnerable to cavities.