Sealants
Preventing tooth decay is the first step to a healthy smile. Sealants can offer protection against cavities helping you maintain a life long healthy smile.
What are Sealants?
A sealant is a plastic coating that fills in the pits and fissures in your back teeth. These pits and fissures are difficult to clean. Toothbrush bristles cannot reach all the way into the depressions and grooves to extract food and plaque. The normal flow of saliva, which helps clean food particles from other areas of the mouth, cannot wash out pits and fissures. These pits and fissures are the most common areas were cavity and tooth decay form. By filling in these pits and fissures a sealant protects cavity prone areas of your mouth.
Who should get Sealants?
Since pit and fissure decay usually starts early in life, children and teenagers can benifit the most from sealants. But adults can benefit from sealants as well. To find out if a person needs sealants the dentist will first evaluate a persons risk for pit and fissure decay. Pit and Fissure decay, although usually begins at an early age, can continue to happen throughout a persons adult life. Changes in habits, medication, or health status, can increase chances for tooth decay.
What are the benefits of Sealants?
Preventative measures can benefit a patient in many ways. Preventing oral problems before they happen is far more effective way to keep a long lasting healthy smile. Sealants can save you money, time and discomfort. Preventing cavitys and tooth decay can reduce trips to the dentist and protect your teeth so that they last a lifetime.

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