Regular Dental Check Ups
Catch Disease Early
Regular dental checkups are well known for detecting and even preventing dental problems at an early stage of development. But the benefit of a regular checkup goes well beyond caring for cavities, and gum problems. Dental checkups often catch diseases such as oral cancer, blood cancer, diabetes, HIV, a Vitamin C deficiency, and Sjogren’s syndrome (where various glands in the body, including salivary glands, get inflamed.) Dental x-rays may also show calcium deposits in the blood vessels that supply the brain. This can be an extremely important early warning sign for a stroke.
Visit Frequency Factors
It is advised that you have a dental checkup twice a year. Affordable discount dental plans make this important schedule manageable. The frequency of the visits may vary according to individual factors, such as pregnancy, poor oral hygiene, diabetes, gum diseases, tobacco chewing or smoking.
Patients with a discount dental plan and a regular dental visit schedule are more likely to detect periodontal diseases in their early stages. Undetected, these can progress to a point where expensive periodontal surgery is necessary. However, with regular care, this may be prevented, in some cases through a procedure known as root planing. Certain groups of patients, especially smokers, are at a higher risk for periodontal disease.
Check Ups even more important if you have heart disease
Patients with a heart defect known as ventricular septal defect (a hole in the partition between the lower part of the right and left chambers of the heart) must be very careful of not having what is called “dental caries”. Dental caries is an infectious disease which damages the structures of teeth. The most common consequences are tooth decay or cavities. If left untreated, the disease can lead to pain, tooth loss, infection, and, in severe cases, death of the tooth. For heart patients, though, the problem becomes even more serious since infective organisms from the disease can travel to the heart, collect in the defective heart, and result in heart failure.
Keeping dental care costs at reasonable rates is our goal so that you may prevent serious dental problems through lack of proper care. We encourage you to enter your zip code in the link below as your first step to selecting a plan that will help you take care of your teeth and your overall health.
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Plans and Programs offered by DentalPlans.com are NOT health insurance policies. Plans and Programs offered by DentalPlans.com provide discounts at certain health care providers for medical services. Plans and Programs offered by DentalPlans.com do not make payments directly to the providers of medical services. The Plan or Program member is obligated to pay for all health care services but will receive a discount from those health care providers who have contracted with the Plan, Program or discount plan organization
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