Dental hygiene is ultra important. Medical and dental professionals tell patients this all the time, and I subscribe to the notion. It is cheaper to pay for preventive maintenance than to fork out boatloads of money for dental repair, which can be prohibitively expensive, especially if one does not have dental insurance.
Hence, it pays to have your teeth cleaned every six months because at the end of that procedure, which polishes up your pearly whites to a brilliant shine, the dentist comes into your little cubicle and probes around in your mouth, uttering oohs, aahs, and hmms. These utterances are most assuredly supposed to cause the patient to feel that the utmost in attention is being given to the person with his or her mouth wide open.
However, I must protest that the dental profession needs to come up with a more long-lasting solution to teeth cleaning than the one ascribed to by the majority of dentists. Why? Because having your teeth cleaned is the ultimate in planned obsolescence. Why? Because, in the vast majority of peoples' lives who have just had their teeth cleaned, food particles will assault their teeth within, at least, four hours of their procedures. Teeth cleaning would be great if it could parallel the idea of having your house cleaned or your clothes dry cleaned........tasks that can have lasting effects for two weeks, if not longer.
Why cannot a prescription medicine be discovered that would be in the form of a pill that could be ingested right after having your teeth cleaned? This pill could be an uber appetite suppressant that could affect one's appetite for two, three, or even four weeks.
Imagine that! A pill that would make me not want to eat for at least two weeks.....all in the name of cleaner teeth!
I'll keep on dreamin'. It can't hurt. One of these times, one of my very good ideas will become a reality.
Ancora imparo
