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Introduction of dental treatment

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The most important thing that you need to understand, is that not every mouth is the same, not all teeth look the same and they are not the same, they will change from patient to patient. That means that every time you’re brushing your teeth, the way that you do it. Even though you’re using the same technique with 1 or 100 people, it will never look the same. This is why you will need a dental cleaning, a tooth cleaning, or periodontal treatment, depending on how well you are brushing your teeth. That’s periodically little by little will accumulate and eventually, you will have that accumulation, which means that you will have bacteria accumulating, you will have calculus or tartar that will be accumulating, and that will create some inflammation and some reaction in your body. Those are the kind of things that you would not be able to remove with your toothbrush eventually.

The periodontium is all the anatomy that surrounds your teeth, and that gives support protection, and nourishment to your teeth. To understand why you need to brush in some sort of way, or what you need to do to the dentist in this way, or what kind of things will happen to you if you don’t protect this part of the teeth that they are surrounding.

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