A family dentist is like having a family physician. Maintaining good oral health is an essential part of maintaining your overall health. Not having a family dentist is like not having a family physician.
Having good teeth and gums maintains good quality of life for the entire family. At Bristol Dental Clinic, a family with regular dental visits would only have regular scaling and routine check-ups (we call them an ideal dental patient). Similar to regular physician check-ups and blood test, we recommend that the entire family visit your family dentist for routine check-ups because the family physician does not check your mouth (different from checking the throat) and the teeth.
At Bristol Dental Clinic, we plan such visits so you get your scaling and check-up are done at the same visit. At such visits, your family dentist gets a chance to identify potential problems like a cavity, infection, poor gums, poor bite etc. at an early stage and recommend timely corrective action. We have different structured programs to check children, teenagers, adults, seniors and people with special health conditions.
These visits are also a great opportunity to connect with the dental office, your family dentist and staff to decide if you can trust the office and the dentist with your dental treatments. Finally, the practice philioshy followed by the dentist and the dental office could be an important criteria in choosing the family dentist.