What are Dental Sealants?​

• Some of our teeth have grooves in them (usually the 16 back teeth). Depending on the person these grooves may be shallow or deep. 

• Deep groves can be difficult or impossible for the toothbrush to adequately clean making them at high risk for cavities

• Dental Sealants reduce cavities in the chewing surface of these teeth by 80%. (ADA Website)

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Who do you Recommend Gets Dental Sealants?

• Most dental offices routinely recommend  Dental Sealants on 6 year and 12 year molars on kids.

  • This is becacuse (1) Teeth are actually more suspectable to cavities the first few years they are in your mouth

  • and (2) kids are generally not as good at brushing their teeth.

• At our office we also routinely recommend dental sealants for adults when the grooves in their teeth are very deep. 

  • usually judge how well the toothbrush is able to clean the grooves in your teeth by how much stain is in the grooves of your teeth. If the grooves are very dark and stained, the toothbrush is having a hard time cleaning them out, and we would recommend Dental Sealants as a preventative measure.​ (please see the examples below)​​