ROYAL YORK DENTAL
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416-231-0550
3034 Bloor Street West | Toronto, Ontario | M8X 1C4
416-231-0550
Discover the tremendous value of having frequent checkups and hygiene care.
If your smile needs LOVE and attention, you'll ADORE our supportive hygiene team!
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1. Dental Disease – Diagnosis & Treatment
One of the biggest benefits of ongoing care is that we can catch problems for you before things become severe, complicated, and expensive. We can detect and correct any dental problems for you in the early stages.
Cavities, broken fillings and gum disease are all easily treatable. Left untreated, these problems don’t tend to get better on their own. They tend to escalate in pain, complexity and severity.
If you want to avoid future pain and loss, then keeping up with regular dental care is essential.
2. Stay Healthy, Keep Your Teeth
The first point above is about disease – finding it and eliminating it. As doctors, that’s exactly what we’re trained to do. We’re schooled in the disease-based model of care.
| This traditional model of care is all about reacting to disease. |
The downside of this model is it only serves those in obvious need. That level of care probably won’t be enough if you plan on keeping your teeth.
Much of illness is at a sub-clinical level. Meaning, you don’t realize you’re afflicted because the symptoms aren’t profound enough to be noticeable. Gum disease and
tooth decay tend to be sub-clinical in nature, especially in the early stages.
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A Message from Dr. Joe Bulger... I’ve noticed that people tend to under-estimate the value of hygiene care. Perhaps our profession has not given Hygiene Services their proper due. These vitally important services ensure your continued health by offering you effective preventive measures. We all grow up hearing words of wisdom from our mothers. Mine taught me that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Those are words I still live by. The best dentistry is when no restorative treatment is ever needed. The second best dentistry is the least amount required to get the desired result. That includes a minimally-invasive approach and early intervention. With dental care, you’re far better off preventing problems in the first place, than by resorting to dental treatment. That’s why prevention-based hygiene care deserves top priority. Yours in good dental health,
P.S. Kudos to our hygiene team of Kelly, Margherita, Olya, Karen, Vanessa, Lina, Salimah, Amanda, Tessa and Shaili. These outstanding professionals are devoted to ensuring your long-term dental health. I’m proud to have them on our team. |
Health and Wellness provides a different model. This proactive approach focuses upon long-term health and optimizing physical and emotional well-being. At this level, your health status remains well above the disease threshold.
If you plan on staying healthy and keep your teeth for life, you’ll need healthcare providers who can offer that for you.
3. Ensure Your Overall Health
Did you know that gum infections can affect your general health? On a microscopic level, there’s a WAR silently raging on in your mouth. And your teeth aren’t the only potential casualties.
| Your gums provide a direct portal into your bloodstream. |
Whenever nasty bugs get into your blood, your body’s immune system must carry the burden of fighting them off. And whenever your immune system is run down, those invading bugs can gain an advantage.
Uncontrolled gum disease can lead to a variety of medical issues such as facial infections, bone destruction, heart disease, lung infections, and more. Recent studies have closely linked gum disease to heart attacks and strokes.
4. Support Your Home Care
In this germ-infested world, one of the best tips for staying healthy and avoiding illness is to stick to the simple routine of washing your hands. The same applies for your teeth and gums. Keep things clean and you’ll keep yourself out of heaps of trouble.
Your hygienist can give you a clean, fresh start.
On a microscopic level, bad bugs take time (3-4 months) to colonize and mature into a destructive state that is capable of exceeding your immune capacity. Regular hygiene care disrupts growing colonies of bad bugs, forcing them to start over again.
What you do everyday at home is more important than what a hygienist can do periodically. That’s why we’ll spend plenty of time coaching you on how to take care of your teeth and gums.
| We consider ourselves to be your partners in dental health. |
We’ll offer ongoing feedback on the condition of your gums. We show you what problem areas to focus on and give you the tools to best handle the situation.
Working together, we help ensure you a healthy, beautiful smile for life.
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5. Oral Cancer Screening
According to The Oral Cancer Foundation, someone dies from oral cancer every hour of every day in the United States alone. Worldwide, over 300,000 new cases of this are diagnosed every year.
We take your health seriously.
During your hygiene visit, you are routinely screened for any tissue abnormalities. An aggressive form of cancer can be found in the mouth, lips or throat. It can be highly curable if diagnosed and treated in the early stages.
6. Ensure Fresh Breath
There’s nothing more embarrassing than being that one others whisper about, and everyone avoids.
When it comes to matters of breath and the appearance of your smile, you want more than just the relief of knowing there isn’t a hidden problem. You want that total confidence of fresh breath and a terrific smile in every situation, every conversation.
| Your hygienist can help you stay kissably-fresh! |
The secret to having fresh breath is to establish supportive routines and rituals. That includes keeping up with your regular dental visits.
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7. Keep Your Smile White & Bright
Do you have embarrassing coffee, tea or tobacco stains? Your hygienist can help by cleaning and polishing your teeth to a beautiful shine.
The result? A whiter brighter smile that you’ll enjoy and be proud to display.
If you've done Teeth Whitening in the past, the perfect time to touch-up your smile is right after you've visited your dental hygienist. Fresh, clean and sparkling white - a smile everyone will enjoy.
8. Explore the Possibilities
As your partner in dental health, your hygienist can help you explore the various options for your health and smile.
Do you want your smile to reflect and recapture your youthful vitality? Smile Enhancement can offer a rejuvenating lift to your smile.
Do you have a missing tooth? Dental Implants offer replacement that looks and feels natural.
Too many miles on your smile? Smile Reconstruction can rebuild broken down teeth, a worn-out smile, and a situation of collapsing facial support. This can offer a dramatic, revitalization of your appearance.
9. Make Full Use of Dental Benefits
If you’re fortunate enough to have dental benefits, be sure to make good use of them. Letting benefits expire is lost dollars and wasted opportunity. Benefits tend to support hygiene services such as regular checkups, cleaning, fluoride and X-rays.
| Preventive services help minimize breakdown and more costly repairs. |
If you don’t have dental benefits, all the more reason to maintain prevention measures. Non-compliance with your checkups and hygiene care means you increase your risk of more severe dental problems along with all the extra pain and expense that can come with that.
10. Retain Access to Excellent Care
Good healthcare support is hard to find. Once you’re fortunate enough to find high-caliber caregivers, make sure you maintain that connection.
If you “derail” on your healthcare you risk losing access to that level of service and care. When something eventually does go wrong, you won’t have that security of dealing with
a dental team you know and trust.
CALL 416-231-0550 to reserve time for your hygiene visit.
