Page 3 - Canby Connection - February 2014

Canby Connection • February 2014 Page 3

Kevin Johnson, DMD
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ebruary is dental health month. It is fitting then to address the physical appear-

ance and symptoms of dental decay. We all have heard that having a sweet tooth
increases your likelihood of getting dental decay and that is true. What does it feel
At Dr. Johnson' s office, we like to have a cavity or look like?

I find that most web browser engines have very good pictures of what dental
get to know our patients as decay looks like. Most of these pictures are fairly severe cases and may be unpleas-
ant to look at. In general, visual signs include discoloring of the tooth either to a dark
people, and care for them
brown or orange color. It is a color change in the tooth itself and cannot be removed
like family.
with toothbrush or toothpick. It needs to be said that a majority of decay sites are
very hard or impossible to visualize with the naked eye until they have progressed to

severe issues that could have been treated much earlier at much less expense or
We are happy to be a part
complexity. That is why x-rays are taken on a frequent schedule. One of the benefits
of dental x-rays is to screen the teeth for these cavities that your dentist cannot diag-
of this great community and look forward nose location or severity of.

to having YOU as a patient.
What a cavity feel like varies widely from case to case. Symptoms of cavities can
range from the extremely painful to the completely absent of symptoms. When diag-
nosed and treated appropriately, the patient would be completely unaware of any
• Accepting new patients
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or nerves of the surrounding gums or bone are aggrevated, the decay has progressed
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very far along and simple dental treatment may no longer be an option. I have had

"We look forward to giving you something to smile about"
plenty of patients with teeth that were completely unrestorable and needed extractions
who reported never feeling any problems at all.
I compare the symptoms of dental decay to the symptoms of cardiovascular dis-

ease. Our bodies don't feel the years of slowly clogging arteries that give life to our
heart. What we do feel is the sudden heart attack that the years of neglect eventually
caused. The same thing is true with our teeth. The early and most easily treatable
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of a problem, it is often well beyond the point that routine care is an option.
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