Can A Hydro Floss Help Improve Your Dental Health and Save You From Expensive Bills?

This is an excellent question. The operative word is, 'can'. Every human body is different and therefore, it wouldn't be appropriate to say 'will'.

Yet, the Hydro Floss has helped a lot of people, including myself. You see, knowledge and understanding are power. So many people remain powerless in many aspects of their lives.

No human being knows everything there is to know. This is one area where I can share something useful with you.

Let's Start At The Beginning

First of all, it is important to be under the regular care of your dentist. You should go in for those cleanings on the schedule your dentist recommends. Why? Because having your teeth cleaned is actually important. Don't take my word for it, ask any dental hygienist or dentist. They know what often happens when you don't.

Brushing And Flossing - Everyone Has Heard Of That, Right?

Everyone has heard that that they must brush AND floss their teeth daily. I think it is fair to say that everyone knows that. Those are both helpful and important.

Why Do People Still Have Expensive Dental Health Problems?

However, a question arises. Are these two activities, brushing and flossing, enough to insure that you never have dental health problems? The answer is, of course, "no". There are too many people who do brush and floss daily and still end up losing teeth, having root canals and crowns, and a wide variety of other expensive dental health problems.

The list of expensive-to-treat problems includes gum disease. Gum disease is rampant. Nearly 75% of people, if we are to believe our dental professionals, have gum disease. That is 3 out of every 4.

This is where things get expensive. You see, gum disease accounts for the vast majority of tooth loss around the world. Again, 3 out of every 4 people have gum disease. Gum disease IS the number one cause of tooth loss.

So What Exactly Is Gum Disease?

Gum disease is a rather slow (occasionally fast) destruction of the tissue that supports your teeth. That would include your gum tissue and the small bones that support them and help them surround each tooth.

When that bone erodes away from continuous contact to the toxins that bacteria secrete, the tissue is destroyed. The bone goes away and the gums 'shrink' because there is nothing (or not enough) left to hold them up.

So you have gum recession. When this problem continues to progress, the tooth becomes loose. There is not enough to hold it at this point. It will either fall out or need to be pulled.

Then, you will need dentures or an implant. Both of which can be expensive - not to mention an inconvenience and a bother.

If you are ok with that, you need read no further. Seriously, if you think that is ok, then there is nothing more to talk about here

However, if you don't like the sound of that, read on.

How Do You Know If You Have Gum Disease?

Of course, you need your dental professional to make the diagnosis for you. However, there is one piece of objective information (objective means that you don't have to take a guess). This is the measurement of your periodontal pocket depths.

On every dental examine you ever get, these measurements should be taken and recorded. How could an examination of your mouth be complete without these numbers? Yet, there are many dental offices that don't do this routinely. Perhaps they only do it to confirm a problem they are now seeing?

You must insist on having these numbers taken no matter what. It is your gauge to know where your gum health is at.

Most dentists, generally speaking, will say that your gums are health when your periodontal pocket depth measurements are 3mm or less. Above that, generally speaking, will cause them to feel that you have gum disease.

Avoiding Tissue Destruction From Gum Disease

So why would most dentists consider your gums healthy when the periodontal pockets are at 3mm and below? It appears that the bacteria cannot exist in sufficient numbers in and around those pockets to produce enough toxins to destroy your gum tissue.

This is good news for you. Because, if you can keep those pocket depths to 3 mms and below, generally speaking, you should be avoiding the ravages of gum disease. That same disease that 3 out of every 4 (or 75%) of people have right now - according to dental professionals and researchers.

Since so many people have this problem, we can conclude that regular brushing and flossing are not enough to protect most people from gum disease. Although, they are both important and should be continued.

What You Do At Home Is The Most Important!

After reading all of the above, you know that getting those pocket depths to 3mm and below is very important to your dental health and heavily influences how much you must pay in the form of expensive treatments over the years.

The problem is plaque and tartar. Under these substances, the bacteria grow rapidly. Plaque must be disrupted daily. This is why we are told to brush and floss every single day.

If plaque is not disrupted, it only takes around 24 hours and the bacteria have a nice environment where they proceed to rapidly multiply. This is the situation that you must combat and prevent every day.

That is why every dental health professional will likely agree: What You Do At Home IS The Most Important in regards to dental health problem prevention. (stopping and preventing gum disease included).

Finding And Keeping On Track

Once you know what your current periodontal pocket measurements are, you have a baseline. You adjust what you are doing at home until you are able to get and maintain your periodontal pockets at that crucial 3mm and below level as measured by your dentist or hygienist on each office visit. No magic here, just simple logic.

Can The Hydro Floss Help?

Yes, it can! 'Can' is the operative word. Nothing is guaranteed, but I do know from personal experience that when nothing else worked for me, the Hydro Floss helped me to bring down my periodontal pocket depths. I have since learned that it has done the same for many other people as well. But every human body is different. Generally speaking, there is no one solution that fits all.

Thursday, February 21, 2013