Dental Sealants, Teeth/Tooth Sealants at Yardley PA Dental Care

The dentists at Yardley PA Dental Care is a huge proponent of Brushing and flossing. Brushing and flossing are excellent preventative measures at avoiding cavities and keeping your teeth clean. Brushing and flossing though an excellent way to keep your teeth clean and healthy no matter how diligent, there is likely a small amount of food that remains, especially on your molar teeth. The molar teeth you have a rough by mature, they are uneven and leftover food tends to be left no matter how well you brush, leading to bacteria that can cues cavities to end up there.

Yardley Dental Care in Pennsylvania has an added precautionary method to assist in keeping the molars and all your teeth from harboring this cavity forming bacteria. Yardley dentists use a sealant, a microscopic addition to your teeth that form a protective coating that coats the outer surface of your teeth, especially the problematic molar teeth. You will still need to brush and floss, but the sealant applied by your dentist helps in keeping cavities from developing and applied early on can halt the first stage of decay from developing to a painful cavity.

The Centers for Disease Control published a report in 10/16 in which it showed the importance of sealants for children ages 6-11 The conclusion reached by the CDC highlights the importance of dental sealants, "school-age children without sealants have almost three times more cavities than children with sealants."

Adults and children alike, sealants are a proven method of filling of the small fine grooves in teeth that are difficult if not impossible to be sufficiently cleaned by flossing and brushing. Sealants are applied in the PA dental office of Yardley Dental care; our dentist brushes on a coating of the sealant that seals the small grooves and pits within your teeth, allowing the brushing of the teeth to remove the plaque and keep your teeth from decay. Dental patients of any age will benefit from dentist applied sealants. Early application of sealants has the best level of protection and avoiding the damage of cavities.

Contact your conveniently located Yardley Pennsylvania dentist at Yardley Dental care to enquire about sealants for yours and your children's teeth. You can reach Yardley PA Dental Care at 215 493-1616 or contact us here