question what is preventing preventive dentistry interesting thing about dentistry is that you know with flossing and brushing and different fluoride treatments having your teeth cleaned and even fillings and crowns and periodontal work is preventive in nature to to a high degree prevent you from losing your teeth that prevents a tooth from breaking the crown so preventive dentistry has the ultimate goal of keeping people's health the chewing ability possibly a statics for those who that's their primary concern chewing ability and overall health so the gums don't bleed and you have teeth to chew with in the back so prevention is the buzzword for keeping teeth to last there people's whole lives so that's the key to preventing we've dentistry has come a long way and in fact is leading in medicine in my opinion in prevention i do believe that one of the way to control costs in medicine is through prevention and we're getting there in medicine slowly but surely dentistry is light years ahead so when your dentist calls you to have your teeth cleaned you should be thanking hey i'm my busy schedule i'm glad you called i need i'm clean it's a wonderful way to keep your teeth nice to keep the gums healthy absolutely without a doubt people who have healthy gums and teeth are healthy as they age people who have gum disease have multiple health problems that manifest itself with brain  s kidney liver you can go on and on because the amount of bacteria getting into the bloodstream through gums who are that are bleeding on a daily on a daily basis and dentistry is prevent sailings help you tease good question troy killings on the same mode of questioning that chrissy asked they actually are preventive you'll go to the dentist will use either a laser detection and filling is done in a preventive nature to maintain the integrity of the rest of the tooth it's there now to tooth is so badly decayed that it needs a crown to prevent the two from being lost and it's just a bigger more involved procedure so the key to dentistry is preventive as chrissy says if there's a decay in the tooth you catch it before it becomes big you take the decay out and restore with a material that restores the tooth to its normal before decay function so to answer your question i make a short story very long which i have a tendency to do it is preventive in nature it keeps the teeth maintains integrity the teeth the tooth without causing without traumatic you know if you hit get hit in the job that people smack together it also is an aid to prevent concussion because one of the main possibilities with concussion as we saw in that flight that guy got knocked encourage any of the athletes who have braces and the possibility because what happens is you can and it's a good question because i've seen a number of student athletes wear their the braces actually get abetted into their and othe and i'm a sophomore here i was wondering how often you should brush and if you should brush any extra if you eat you know candy or sugary drinks that's the key thing with the with with cavities is  see for instance people have a tendency in general like to sip on a bottle of pop over a long period of time that's bathing your teeth and sugar or having a mint for breath in their mouth or chew gum that has sugar in it pays your teeth and sugar so what happens is even if you don't have material in your mouth you know princess like going from eating an apple the amount of sugar that is in your mouth is is a very good indicator because the sugar feeds bacteria and the bacteria creates acid and acid demon realize that the teeth so invariably everybody who who you know the sugar keeps their sugar in their mouth with the chewing gum with lifesavers that are sugar in them will have cavities because of the amount of sugar and of the amount of time that so to answer your question which was again how sugar and and candy effects that's the answer that how often you should brush the key is if you're going to drink pop which you drink the pop over a smaller period of time winter my thought with water to good to dilute the sugar for instance ideally you brush your teeth in a few have to have a candy or over in school or in normal life it's hard to do that all the time the key is twice a day before you go to school for instance in your age category and before you go to bed listen to the plotting wants to stay away from the sugary content six hundred and twenty six thousand investors that's how many people s i p c has helped since my nine hundred seventy five hundred five million dollars over half a billion dollars that's how much as i p c has made available from its reserves to help investors over fifteen billion dollars that's how much as i p c has made it possible for investors to recover what is a sipc it's a securities investor protection corporation and investors first line of defense in the unlikely event that a brokerage firm fails it doesn't happen very often but when it does s i p c is there for real people like me and me and me and back with the program let's talk dentistry today we were having a program ask the dentist and we have chrissy lampert as our guest and she's going to ask a question here today  so that your job is aligned properly and also so that you can keep your teeth nice as far as brushing because when the teeth are all tangles it's hard to keep them clean and that's when gum disease is very prevalent but teeth are nice and straight it's very easy to just go in a certain planes and certain vectors and certain angles and brush your teeth and floss your teeth properly it's when they're crowded in crooked that they're hard to clean when they're hard to clean you get gum cracking and that's oftentimes what happens so it becomes a functional thing it becomes a longevity thing to keep your teeth nice your whole life in a week and thirdly the aesthetic of it which is i think the more of a by product i think it's crusty and right so you would never think of not russian every day well the only way to clean between the tea is through floss and you can't brush between the teeth and gum disease starts between the t so it's a similar which is the same thing you're talking about you would never think of not brushing every day right now so flossing is the only way to clean between the teeth the pics don't work the water picks the little toothpicks it's flossing t the question that the young man had earlier why do you do fillings you do a filling as a preventive against the decay going into the nerves when the decay from the glass and to much of the candy that one of the questions and not enough of the brushing or not enough of the flossing when the decay gets into the nerves the nerve becomes infected because the tooth actually inside the two thousand things and arteries and and when that gets infected that's where the two think comes from so in order to save that tooth you have to get that material out of the two and that's what a root canal is now a root canal keeps that tooth in the mouth without having to pull that to and then replace it with an implant or a bridge work or some or some partial or something so it's preventive to keep the tooth in the mouth so that's a good question and i get the welcome ok and we have hannah kipen the yes yes now you don't do that i don't do that all right i don't think so that is a great question snuff they call it smokeless tobacco but in my office you know you'll see people who you know use tobacco cigarettes cigars and the snuff and by far by far the snuff users have the greatest that the facts are there to their tissues there's something called look look up like have you heard of that i'll look up like if it's a white it is pre cancerous it's that's people who do snuff they put it in the same area the same time and the tissues normally pink but that because of the caustic irritants of the smokeless tobacco will make that area white and white lesion is place which is a precancerous lesions that effect of the smokeless or the snuff is very detrimental people have gotten cancer and it's a very ugly cancer in other words very hard to treat and very not a good outcome oftentimes so smokeless tobacco back on general is a detriment to your health of the gums and the teeth forget about the rest of  t i mean you know that's another subject for another for another program but smokeless tobacco really you can see some symptoms very quickly and it seems to be used out a lot by  younger people for some particular reason it would be should be very discouraging especially and if you're using a look in the mouth look in your mouth i mean i'm not lecturing to you but you look in there and you see if it's white  there was any type of cancer that you can that can occur inside of your mouth there that's another good question kristie as we talked about earlier the smokeless tobacco is a one of the leading causes of oral cancer the other overdoing that cigarette smoking just high degrees cigar smoking can happen to make that happen but also little things like if you have a sore in your mouth like we as a rule when we're doing it we do an oral cancer screening in the mouth every patient every six months and that's a key thing because oral cancer is because of the nature of the anatomy of the head and neck it's very devastating early detection is key so in our office and there we do an oral cancer screening and there's devices out there that you can actually shine a light and it'll tect if there are any areas that are cancerous or precancerous and if we see we always like to air to the side of caution i always say that if you see a spot on the tongue on the lips on the cheek we always get it checked because if it's nothing it's a wonderful thing and if it is something you catch it early enough and it's that's not it can oftentimes be career corrected so we do an oral cancer screening where we smoke good question if you see it more often with those who are abusing the sick kinds of things but you can see it like for instance if something's robbing say have a sharpness from others a cracked to if you are some people choose their cheeks you know that's a nervous condition they chew their cheeks you know and it's it's it's it's a conscious thing that can be controlled that constant irritation so  question that's why it's very important on a bi annual basis to go to the dentist because you know even if they're not telling you they're doing an oral you know i don't say i'm doing an oral cancer screening but i thought i spent some time you know on the subsequent exams for the dental prophylaxis or the cleaning to look to make sure and then we i refer them to the proper specialist to get these things correct checked more often than not it's not a problem and more often than not it's its but you don't want that one time or two to say well this is nothing and and it's something so  it's and i see you were talking generally this is a problem with people who are older and not so much younger except for this not for years ok the snuffers ok well pretty thank you thank you for having me all right