21/10/2024
It is imperative that patients understand that dental caries is a lifestyle related (your lifestyle causes it or your change in lifestyle can prevent it), behavioural (based from your behavior -- if you eat lots of sugary snacks throughout the day or only after meals) bacterially mediated (caused by caries forming bacteria), noncommunicable (not transmissible from person to person) disease that is wholly preventable by YOUR actions alone (your daily oral hygiene habits, your choice of snacks and your decision to bring yourself to dental check-ups every 6 months).