If you have let slip the level of your oral hygiene of late, you are running the gauntlet of suffering from tooth decay in central Leeds. By not cleaning the surfaces and in between you teeth, it is allowing the acids from food and drink to start going to work on the enamel. Slowly, it will start to get through and caries will form; this is the start of tooth decay in earnest. You may start to suffer from toothache at which point, you need to get to your dentist, as you will need to have the tooth filled. If however you ignore these signs and just take pain killers, then the decay will continue and before long, no pain killer in the world will numb the shooting pains that will come when the pulp inside the tooth is infected. Now, you’ll need to have a root canal in order to clear the infected pulp, drill out the roots, have the tooth filled and then capped with a crown. However, if the decay has got to this level, there is a chance that you have unleashed periodontal disease as well; this will see the bone in the jaw start to be eaten away and that will need bone graft in order to recover. All of this can start to become expensive now and were you to lose a tooth in a prominent position, you will incur more expense in order to get it replaced: all this because you got lazy with your oral hygiene; you have been warned.

The more we learn to understand and discover things as we go through, the more we tend to question that the things we have always used and taken for granted are in fact, doing us any good and in the case of fluoride, many dentists in central Leeds are starting to opt out of its support and advocate alternative toothpastes. The reason for this has come from years of research worldwide into the effect fluoride has on the teeth. It has always been championed in the past as a savior of teeth- helping to re-mineralize the enamel in the teeth and offer protection from dental caries by helping to break down the bacteria that causes plaque, which is why most dentists will offer fluoride treatments to help support this fight. It is also considered to help in the growth of children’s teeth during those tricky years, which is why it is a mineral added to drinking water. Yet there are parts of the world that have no fluoride in their society at all and there is no indication what-so-ever that there are increased cases of tooth decay, in fact, it is quite the opposite. It is also considered that too much fluoride in the bloodstream can act as a poison and cause brain damage as it leaves deposits all around the deposit. In some cases with children who tend to swallow more toothpaste than they spit out, too much fluoride can kill a child. Extreme maybe, but many dentists consider keeping a child fluoride free. The thing is it is everywhere as we speak.