Some people fail to fully understand and appreciate the connection between preventative dental care (brushing, flossing, rinsing, etc) and healthy minds and bodies. This blog post addresses that in the hope that you walk away with a heightened awareness of your dental hygiene regiment.
Dental hygiene is not just about healthy teeth, gums, and a bright and beautiful smile. Taking care of your dental health is taking care of your overall health as well. This is because there is a link of the health of the mouth and health of the body. What can adversely affect your mouth and everything in it can have the same effect on your entire body because your mouth is the gateway to your body.
The Oyster Pointe Dentistry professionals in Newport News, VA strongly believe that your understanding how the mouth can affect the body will help improve you both physically and mentally. One common negative effect of poor dental hygiene is that which occurs if you fail to brush and floss. If you do not brush and floss your teeth regularly as recommended, plaque build-up will occur. This invites harmful bacteria build-up in the mouth, which as previously stated is the gateway to your entire body. Those bacteria can travel to various tissues and organs within the body and cause internal infections. In the best case a very health person's body can fight the bacteria off. In weaker cases and in children, the bacteria can overwhelm the body causing infection that requires antibiotics to eradicate. In the worst case, as with all internal infections, the bacteria can cause the body to go toxic and become life-threatening.
So please be diligent with your dental hygiene regiment and encourage all that you hold dear to do the same. For more details, contact
