For the next four weeks football fans will be happy because the World Cup is on the way, just as other people are happy that the season has finished. We should all take advantage of this small window of glee, of course, but there is a serious reason behind National Smile Month’s celebration of showing off your pearly whites – oral health is vital.
The key messages of the British Dental Foundation’s campaign, Teeth For Life, are the ones that dentists drum into us at every check-up: brush your teeth twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste and cut down on how often you have sugary foods and drinks.
And if you can’t remember the last time you were in a dentist’s chair, it’s about time you addressed the problem.
Dentists are now increasingly in the front line of healthcare as scientific research continues to prove a systemic link between gum disease and heart disease, strokes, diabetes and even premature babies.
Evidence of the first documented link between a foetal death and its mother’s pregnancy-related gum disease has emerged in the US. Elsewhere, cosmetic dentistry has seen a significant rise in recent years, bucking the economic trend, according to industry experts.
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