General Dentistry

Serving Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe and Scottsdale, Arizona

Regular dental appointments are an important part of keeping your mouth healthy and your smile clean and dazzling. A variety of dental procedures is often necessary to maintain your dental health. Scott LeSueur, D.D.S in Mesa, Arizona offers many general dentistry procedures to keep patients’ smiles bright and clean. Patients’ health, comfort, and safety are all top priorities our dentistry office.

The Importance Of Dental Visits

You should schedule an appointment for a professional teeth cleaning with cosmetic & neuromuscular dentist Dr. LeSueur at least once every sixth months. This keeps your teeth clean and gives his dental team the chance to thoroughly examine your teeth and detect any possible dental problems.

If you do not routinely visit your dentist, you may suffer from:

• Cavities
• Toothaches
• Tartar build-up
• Gum disease
• Tooth decay

These dental problems require more extensive treatment, such as porcelain inlays and onlays or composite fillings. These treatments can often be avoided if you see us regularly and maintain good dental hygiene.

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Dental Hygiene

Good dental hygiene habits established when young will be maintained throughout a child’s life and help to prevent many dental problems. With Pediatric dentistry we teach you and your child how to properly brush and floss and take care of teeth. Dental hygiene should begin in infancy. Parents can gently wipe a baby’s gums after each feeding to remove bacteria; this also gets your baby used to the sensation of brushing. As the teeth come in, start brushing them with a very soft infant toothbrush. It is important to not allow your child to swallow toothpaste.

With general dentistry, we can make sure your teeth and your smile are healthy, and we can identify problem areas before they develop into serious dental issues. By making sure your teeth are always in good health, you can prevent lengthy, time-consuming, and expensive dental procedures in the future.

Fighting Tartar and Plaque

The best way to ensure that your smile is in the best health possible is to schedule regular teeth cleanings at a professional general dentistry office such as Dr. LeSueur’s in Arizona. During your teeth cleaning appointment, the plaque, bacteria, and tartar that develop over time are removed from your teeth.

Bacteria, tartar, and plaque are the cause for nearly all decay that occurs on your teeth. The crevices of your teeth, combined with your own saliva, are a haven for bacteria to thrive, eating away at the tissue of your teeth, even spreading into or around the gum tissue.

While brushing and flossing are the best ways to remove plaque, tartar, and bacteria daily, regular teeth cleaning is essential to eliminating buildups that flossing and brushing fail to remove.

In general, professional teeth cleaning should be performed every six months. In addition to removing plaque from your teeth and making it more difficult for plaque to build in the future, teeth cleaning can also help your dentist detect more serious problems like gum disease, cancer, bone loss, and tooth loss

Dr. LeSueur and Dr. Dodaro, serving Mesa, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe and other East Valley Cities in Arizona, combine LVI training and state-of-the-art technology to bring you, and your entire family, the very best and healthiest cosmetic and neuromuscular dental care. Email our general dentistry office today to schedule your initial general dentistry consultation.