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As it is understood from the term itself, it aims to protect from any disease or prevent them by small treatments. Thanks to protective dentistry, all damages and diseases are early-diagnosed with regular controls both in childhood and adulthood. 
In regular controls, children are examined and their teeth, chin and facial development (pedodonty-orthodonty) are detected in the beginning and treated by small treatments. Decays are prevented by applying decay protectors of foil applications by pedodontists.
Space maintainers are applied before losing any time for teeth lost because of heavy decays. Early orthodontic treatments can begin when needed in children controls.
Regular controls in adult and later years of age are very important in terms of protective dentistry by evaluating patient complaints in a right way or examining teeth, gums and maxillary bones, bridges together with radiological controls.
These regular controls may help avoid these decays to grow, gums to slow down and bridges to corrode.
Periodic controls are very important in determination of oral findings which may occur in all drugs we use in protective dentistry for all our patients.
General rules of protective dentistry:
1.Regular controls
2.Right training of oral and dental health and its continuity
3.Regular patient tracking
4.X-ray tests
5.Blood, urine analysis and MR, CT controls when needed
6. In some cancer or systematic diseases through all body, first symptoms can be detected from oral cavity although not very often.
Dr. Mehmet Ali Özer
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