The following are the role and duties of a dentist:
- Diagnosis, preventing, and treating dental problems.
- Identifying and treating oral growth, lesions, or cancer.
- Diagnosing and treating disorders of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ).
- Educating patients about ways to maintain their oral hygiene.
- Performing cosmetic procedures to improve the patient’s smile.
- Identifying tongue-tie, cleft lip or palate, and abnormal frenum attachment in kids and adults.
- Performing prophylactic oral hygiene procedures (scaling and root planing, fluoride treatment, pits and fissure sealants).