Many people only visit the dentist once problems arise. Yet regular check-ups often allow many conditions affecting the teeth and gums to be spotted early, or to be significantly limited or prevented as they develop. Dental prophylaxis is therefore an important building block for long-term oral health – at any age.
Alongside your daily dental care at home, professional dental cleaning – or individual prophylaxis for children and adolescents – is a sensible complement to your home oral hygiene. It does not replace daily brushing, but it can help to clean areas that are hard to reach with a toothbrush and dental floss.
Wouldn't it be lovely to keep your own teeth healthy and bright for years to come? Prophylaxis at the dentist can help with exactly that.
Prophylaxis has been one of the main areas of focus at your Zahnarztpraxis Nordstraße for decades. Our highly trained dental prophylaxis team is here for you – whether that's children's prophylaxis, professional dental cleaning or tooth whitening.
The term "prophylaxis" means prevention. In dentistry it covers all the measures that help to keep teeth and gums healthy for as long as possible.
These include, among others:
Everyone has different circumstances. That is why good prophylaxis is always guided by individual needs.
During a professional dental cleaning, hard and soft deposits as well as discolouration are carefully removed. Deposits can build up particularly in hard-to-reach areas that are difficult to remove completely in everyday care.
A professional dental cleaning usually includes:
In addition, you will receive practical guidance on how to tailor your daily dental care even better to your personal situation.
Not everyone needs the same preventive measures. Individual prophylaxis takes personal factors into account, such as:
This results in a preventive concept tailored to your personal oral health.
In principle, almost everyone benefits from regular prophylaxis.
It is particularly recommended for:
How often a professional dental cleaning makes sense depends on your individual oral situation and is discussed together with the dental team.
Most people find the treatment very well tolerated. The team at Zahnarztpraxis Nordstraße responds individually to your needs; a mild numbing gel or local anaesthetic can also be used on request and at the dentists' direction, to make your cleaning as gentle as possible.
No. Professional dental cleaning complements your daily oral hygiene but does not replace it. Regular brushing and cleaning between the teeth remain essential.
Professional dental cleaning removes surface discolouration that can be caused by coffee, tea or nicotine, for example. It does not, however, change the natural colour of your teeth.
Regular prophylaxis helps to support oral health over the long term and to detect changes early. Together with careful dental care at home, it creates good conditions for keeping teeth and gums healthy for as long as possible.
If you have questions about professional dental cleaning or individual prophylaxis, we would be glad to advise you in person. Together we will find a preventive concept that suits your individual situation.
