9 false phrases that dentists often hear, and why you need to be more honest
Health / / December 19, 2019
Marina Kolesnichenko
Dentist, chief doctor of dental clinic Beauty Line.
It would seem that could happen if we have a little sovrom at a reception at the dentist? After all, he still treats only the teeth, so what's the difference, we are talking about the truth our way of life or not? However, innocent at first glance, lie at a reception at the dentist can have far-reaching consequences.
1. I do not drink and do not smoke
This is one of the most popular phrases at the reception any doctor, but dentists are especially strongly puzzled when she hears: any dentist immediately understand that you're lying, just by looking into your mouth.
The reason that the patient denies the obvious, is simple: no one wants to admit that you yourself partly to blame for the problems with your teeth, especially if there is no desire to give up cigarettes and alcohol.
Besides the fact that this lie is exposed dentist immediately (even if you do not talk about it), it is absolutely meaningless. The doctor may choose preventive procedures that will maintain the health of teeth, for example, remineralization, professional cleaning. The dentist also advise what funds for home care is best used. All this in the end will allow to preserve the health of your teeth.
2. I eat only healthy food
Question feeding just need to make a separate point: almost all patients understand the important role it plays in maintaining the health of teeth, and therefore almost all the lies about what to eat really. Daily eating of cakes and chocolates in the mouth of a patient turns to porridge food and boiled meat, and instead of fast food and snacks, he describes the passion for broccoli.
First, the doctor will understand immediately that this is not true, as your teeth. Secondly, the concealment of the true diet will cause you all the time you return to the dentist is one problem, then another, and eventually all teeth can leave you. Well and thirdly, even if you can not give up the sweet and harmful, the doctor will be able to pick you up for home care and treatments that will help to strengthen the health of the teeth.
3. I always brush my teeth properly
Perhaps this phrase is still ahead of the frequency lies about smoking and alcohol because smoke and drink not everything but the fear to confess to a lack of hygiene for some reason there almost every first patient. Again, a dentist instantly realize that you are actually brush your teeth not very good: just by deposits of plaque, tartar and the amount of food residue.
No need to hide the truth from the doctor. He, at first, you will hold a professional cleaning, and secondly, will pick up the paste and brush the desired rigidity, thirdly, to learn the correct method of brushing. You can even clean them right in the office, to the dentist to see where you're wrong, and helped to rectify the situation.
Also there is such an aspect: if you regularly and properly brush your teeth, but plaque is still very much, it is necessary to analyze the chemical composition and volume of saliva. It is possible that it is produced is not enough for natural self-cleaning teeth.
4. I regularly use dental floss and irrigator
Floss - a dental floss for cleaning between teeth. With the same objective of coping and irrigator - a device for home use, which cleans the interdental spaces using directional pressure jets of water. If the doctor asks about the use of these funds, many patients know about their existence, then say that, of course, actively using them. Though actually irrigator could see only in pictures.
It would be desirable to look the person in charge, to take good care of your teeth, you should not lie about it: the doctor will understand everything, seeing how much plaque and dietary fiber remains between the teeth. And yet, these devices allow you to prevent tooth decay, as it develops, including due bacteriaWho live in the plaque and food debris between teeth. So, if the doctor recommends that you use the irrigator or flossing, it is worth considering.
However, for the most advanced users developed another device - an electric brush, which is connected to the smartphone. It is loaded special application that scans your face and then keeps track of how well you brush your teeth. With this application, your doctor can develop for you a cleaning mode and watch as you stick with it (of course, with your permission).
5. I always follow all instructions of the physician
Of course not: each adult without these stupid instructions have something to do. And in the subsequent reception is always possible to tell lies, everything that you do, but to no avail. Who would guess?
But alas - and here the doctor immediately determine what you embellish reality: according to tests or dental health. As a result, he or will repeat the same treatment regimen, or appoint a new analysis on the basis of them will be a new treatment regimen, and you find yourself back at the same point. So, refusing to follow the instructions of the doctor, you just tighten treatment and risk eventually all lose a tooth, which is what happens with a particularly resistant patients.
6. I do not remember when it all started
Yes indeed the disease creeps up unnoticed and the patient truly does not understand where it all began. But often this phrase uttered by those who struggled delayed frightening visit to the dentist, hoping that the pulp, caries or tooth injury somewhere to disappear on their own. And because it is very difficult to admit, for some reason, you've been waiting for a month. Simply to say that nothing can not remember.
Again, the doctor will understand everything by examining your teeth and diagnostic data. Even if you do not say anything, know this: the lie to the skilled person will be apparent. But hiding the truth, you're just wasting your time on the medical investigation in the spirit of Dr. House and eventually approach to solving the problem.
7. I have never been so bad
And this can also be true: toothache It is one of the most difficult and intense tolerated in the human body. That is why there is such a thing as a queue outside the reception of patients with acute dental pain. But some irresponsible citizens simply lie about their suffering, that they might get to the doctor or get, it seems to them better and more effective treatment.
In fact, all procedures are the indications and of the protocol, and the doctor can see the patient greatly exaggerates their suffering. So in the end it will still treat it from the real, and not imaginary or exaggerated problems. But attempts to penetrate to the room, pushing aside those who need help too - is generally unsportsmanlike.
8. My family does not hurt so
If a doctor suddenly something interested family history patient, many are beginning to lie, that all the relatives to the seventh generation were completely healthy. It can not be this, to question the doctor had a rational and important reason.
It is not necessary to think that heredity - it is one of the most important factors that determine the health of your teeth. For example, inheritance may be transmitted bite defects, susceptibility to diseases such as periodontal disease and periodontitis. Knowing this, the dentist will choose the preventive measures, and if you brought the child to the reception, the doctor will know what to focus on.
9. This is all due to heredity
Often the opposite situation: all dental problems patients attribute the heavy heredity. Like, even my praprapradeda lost all teeth in 30 years, and therefore I have eternal decay. It's a way to justify himself: I somehow take care of your teeth, but it spoils the bad heredity.
As already mentioned, this may indeed be true, but do not think that your actions and lifestyle have no effect on dental health. In practice, regular preventive dental check-ups, a properly selected and regular home care, timely treatment of problems found to help maintain healthy teeth and a beautiful smile, even if not very good heredity.
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