Preventive Dentistry | The Smile Team - Complete Family and Cosmetic Dental Care

Depending upon your oral health risks, we will recommend examinations either once or twice a year. Our aim is for your mouth to be healthy and stable so your teeth last a lifetime with a minimum of worries, complications, and cost.

Why should I have regular dental visits?

Dentistry's greatest progress over recent decades is in preventive dental care techniques. There is no reason why a healthy set of teeth cannot stay filling free for a lifetime if the correct approach is taken together by you and us. One of the most satisfying aspects of our work is to be able to give you the all clear at examinations. By having regular dental examinations, we aim to assist you in identifying risk factors and take the necessary actions.

By the time you can notice discomfort in a tooth, it's possible that treatment can become more complicated. Decay doesn't happen overnight, and if we can identify this early, we can save you time, discomfort, and cost.
Why does it feel like that every time I visit a dentist more treatment is required.
As a practice with a practice philosophy of preventive dental care, we strive to minimize the amount of treatment that you require. It's important to know that not all dental treatment has the same level of priority. For this reason, for all treatment we propose we will truthfully inform you of whether the treatment is urgent, beneficial over the longer term, or completely optional

Dental studies show that three types of individuals will be more prone to having more treatment than on average.
Group 1. An inbalance of diet and oral hygiene.
Group 2. Patients with a history of multiple, and or large fillings.
Group 3. Irregular attenders