Oral Health Directly Reflects on Overall Health

by Caroline Amorim Kennedy | Oct 8, 2020 | Salud bucal | 0 comments

Oral hygiene is the practice of keeping the mouth, teeth and gums clean and healthy. It is the best way to prevent tooth decay, gingivitis and periodontists, as well as avoiding halitosis. The preventive care should be daily to avoid several problems with your oral health and well-being.

Oral hygiene and periodic consultations with your dentist are very important throughout your lifetime. Regardless of age, it is possible to have healthy teeth and gums if you brush your teeth at least three times a day, using adequate toothpaste. Don’t forget to floss at least once a day, and is important to visit your dentist for check-ups.

Regardless of age, it is possible to have healthy teeth and gums

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), oral health comprises a state in which the person is free from pain, discomfort and changes in the mouth and face. This includes conditions of oral or throat cancer, infections and mouth ulcers, diseases and any disorders that may affect the quality of life, preventing the patient from eating, smiling, speaking or feeling socially comfortable.

Oral health directly reflects on overall health. It is through the mouth that the digestive process begins, as teeth are important for chewing food, the articulation of words and aesthetics.

Remember, early detection and treatment of problems with your gums, teeth and mouth can help ensure a lifetime of good oral health.

Oral hygiene advice:

From the earliest months of life, proper oral hygiene should be practised.

For babies, soak gauze in filtered water and gently wipe the baby’s gums at least once a day, preferably at dusk, before the baby sleeps. After 6 months, an appropriate finger brush for the baby’s oral hygiene should replace the gauze. When the baby is 1 1/2 years old, parents should begin using a child’s toothbrush as well as using an age-appropriate, usually fluoride-free, toothpaste.

All these procedures should be part of the child’s routine early on, so that in the future, they see tooth brushing as normal routine.

In addition to daily brushing and flossing, consider using mouthwash containing fluoride to promote oral health.
Resist the temptation to use toothpicks or other objects that could injure your gums and let in bacteria.
If you smoke, try to quit. Using tobacco increases your risk of many diseases, including gum disease and tooth loss
Visit your dentist regularly – at least every 6 months to maintain good oral health.

Original text by:
Dr. Amanda Martins – CRO: 107.190 – Brazil / São Paulo
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Switching Dental Management Software

by Caroline Amorim Kennedy | Oct 5, 2020 | Software Dental | 0 comments

Are you thinking of switching products but concerned about losing data or a messy transition?

Advances in digital dentistry are happening fast and to avail of the true benefits you need to have a solid, future proof and constantly evolving dental management system at the centre.

If your current provider has not already evolved their product with current technologies, then you need to look at changing.

It is not as complicated as it may seem from the outset. You have far more to lose by staying with a provider that is not investing in a future proof product than the assumed cost to change.

The Salud product portfolio is constantly evolving and last year saw the release of Salud Dental, a web-based feature-rich solution with digital dentistry interoperability capabilities at its core.

Changing provider is not as complicated as it may seem from the outset.

Many of Salud’s customers have moved from other providers, taking their data with them.

The Salud team are experts in their field and have vast experience in migrating data from third-party systems. Experience includes; the migration of 1,000 – 1 Million Patients with 5-20 years of data, in various countries across 5 continents.

Salud’s standard migration process is:

Identify the data for migration. This is typically completed as part of a workshop with the customer.
Some customers only require a basic patient record, while others will choose for all data to be migrated. The migration process is the same either way.
Following the workshop, the Salud team create a mapping document which states the areas for migration and the rules surrounding the data migration.
Extracting data – this is typically completed by the customer with the outgoing supplier.
If this is not possible, the Salud team has extensive database expertise to proceed without the assistance of the third party supplier.
Data is converted to the Salud data model and imported.

The Salud team have decades of industry experience poured into their products, and Salud customers will tell you that their experience in implementation is the best available in the marketplace.

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