Dental Hygiene

Keep your teeth and gums healthy for life with a strong oral hygiene routine.
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What is a dental hygienist in Cardiff?

Dental hygiene refers to keeping your teeth, gums and mouth healthy. Your oral health is important because it is closely linked to your general health.

A dental hygienist works closely with your dentist to maintain and enhance your oral health. Whilst your dentist will focus on all aspects of dentistry, a dental hygienist focuses specifically on keeping your mouth and gums clean. In doing so, a dental hygienist can help prevent, as well as treat, problems like gum disease, tooth decay and cavities.

At Dental Lounge Cardiff in Cardiff, our dental hygienists see hundreds of patients from Wandworth, Pontcanna, Danescourt, Cardiff, Whitchurch, and throughout Llandaff.

Why Choose Dental Lounge for dental hygiene?

Patients from across Cardiff and South Wales choose Dental Lounge for dental hygiene because we offer:

  • Interest-Free Finance
Flexible payment plans to help make treatment more affordable.
  • A Friendly, Supportive Team
We’re with you every step of the way, from consultation to final results.
  • Modern, Relaxing Practice
A state-of-the-art environment designed to keep you comfortable throughout your treatment.
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benefits of dental hygienists

Treatment at a dental hygienist will ensure that your teeth look and feel their best. After a dental hygiene clean, your teeth look noticeably brighter and whiter

Regularly seeing a dental hygienist will help to protect and enhance your oral health

Seeing your dental hygienist on a regular basis can prevent minor dental issues developing into more complex problems which are potentially more expensive and more invasive

Your dental hygienist can help overcome any issues that you may have with your oral health including bad breath, problems with cleaning or staining to teeth

Your oral health is closely linked to your general health, so by regularly visiting your dental hygienist you can help to prevent problems such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s Disease and heart disease from occurring

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What do dental hygienists at Dental Lounge Llandaff?

Dental hygienists at Dental Lounge Cardiff in Cardiff work on a preventative approach. They spend a lot of their time working with patients to prevent tooth decay and gum disease from forming. In the UK, gum disease remains the prime reason why people lose their teeth.

Gum disease

Gum disease can be difficult to identify, with some patients not showing any symptoms until it has firmly taken hold. The first stage of gum disease is known as gingivitis. Patients may notice bleeding or sore gums.

A dental hygienist can work with you to treat gingivitis. But if it is left untreated, gingivitis can develop into the more serious form of gum disease known as periodontitis. Periodontitis often needs antibiotics along with a thorough clean of your mouth and a personalised treatment plan from a dental hygienist. If periodontitis is not dealt with, then your teeth are at risk of becoming loose, failing or decaying.

Regular check and hygiene clean

Patients usually visit a dental hygienist every 6 to 12 months. During this visit, the dental hygienist will check on the health and cleanliness of your mouth.

This visit usually includes a traditional scale and polish clean. Your dental hygienist will gently scrape at your teeth to remove plaque. If plaque builds up on your teeth, it hardens and is known as tartar. This is much harder to get rid of and can only be achieved by a dental hygienist or dental professional.

Your dental hygienist then finishes off your clean with a polish. Your teeth will look and feel noticeably different.

Airflow

Many patients from Cardiff, Pontcanna, Whitchurch, Canton, Danescourt and throughout Llandaff are now choosing to get an Airflow dental clean. This deep clean is much more thorough and leaves a real difference to the way your teeth look and feel.

Halitosis

If you suffer from bad breath, your dental hygienist can help treat this and give advice about how to prevent halitosis from occurring again.

General hygiene advice

Dental hygienists give lots of advice about how to best keep your mouth and teeth clean.

If you have a certain problem, for example, if your teeth are crooked or overcrowded and you notice that staining is affecting your teeth, your dental hygienist can help show you how to deal with this.

Other advice may include how to keep dental braces clean or how to maintain restorations such as dental implants or veneers. Dental hygienists can give advice about flossing and using interdental brushes too.

Frequently Asked Questions about dental hygiene

How often should I floss my teeth?
We recommend that you should floss your teeth once every day. It may seem fiddly and time consuming, but flossing is the only way to prevent plaque from forming in the spaces between your teeth. Your dental hygienist can show you how to floss your teeth.
What causes bad breath?

Bad breath maybe caused by the diet you consume, if you’re not eating healthily, this can often be the reason. Poor oral hygiene may also be the reason for bad breath. Tooth decay and gum disease can be an indication of bad breath. Your dental hygienist will investigate the reason for bad breath, treat the cause and help to prevent it from occurring again.

Is an electric toothbrush better than a manual?
An electric toothbrush is more likely to clean your teeth more effectively because they do more strokes per minute than a manual toothbrush. However, you can still get an effective clean with a manual toothbrush and it’s more important that you use a toothbrush that you’re more comfortable with. As long as you brush your teeth twice a day and for a minimum of two minutes at each brush.