It's easy to patch cavities than to Prevent

It's easy to patch cavities than to Prevent - Since many years ago, the emphasis in medical education and a lot of dentistry focused on healing and treatment of disease. In fact, it would be much more effective and efficient if done before the emergence of disease prevention.

"Since a few years ago, recognizes (Indonesian Dentist Association) have agreed to focus its attention on the prevention of tooth decay '" said Drg. Zaura Anggraeni, MDS, Chairman recognizes the signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Pepsodent and recognizes, on Thursday (1/3/3012).

Cavities and bleeding gums caused by bacteria, foods that are sweet and sticky, dental hygiene oral, and all closely related to lifestyle.

The proof, in developed countries there is a change patterns of eating a diet that is more modern. One of them is consuming a lot of processed products such as bread karbohidat more tender. It will lead to tooth decay because the rest of the food will be more easily attached to the teeth.

Economic conditions also led to growing sweet foods like candy, chocolate, cakes and sticky sweet yag increasingly easy to obtain the public.

"If you address them after the hole, then there will be endless due to lifestyle causes of tooth decay is not stopped," said the dentist who is familiarly called Dr. Zaura this.

Germs on the teeth will ferment the sugary foods and produce acids. Acid with a pH (acidity) is very low, below 5.5, it can dissolve tooth enamel. Email is the hardest part of the body. If email is dissolved, then there was a hole in the tooth.

In addition, too many new people visit the dentist after a tooth cavity. In fact, the process of erosion of dental enamel on the teeth until the advent of the hole requires a long time, from 6 to 24 months. Thus, Dr. Zaura urge the community to control early tooth decay before it is too late.

To realize this, PDGI has been trying to make a wide range of programs to promote the prevention of cavities such as brushing your teeth in warning troop dental health month, have appealed to primary school and health clinic, even a program built to instill the importance of primary dental hygiene from an early age.