Why should I go to the dentist regularly?

Dentist answers

Regular dental checkups are essential for maintaining healthy teeth and gums.

Regular dental checkups are essential for maintaining healthy teeth and gums.

Regular dental visits are important because they allow your dentist to: Detect cavities early. Your dentist examines your teeth to find cavities while they're still minor. The earlier you catch them, the less expensive cavities are to treat.

They won’t get ahold of me. I screen my calls, so if they do call, I probably won’t answer because they aren’t in my phonebook. They can’t leave a voicemail, since I just got a new phone and haven’t set up the mailbox. All I’ll see is a missed call from a number I don’t recognize.

I called my doctor’s office during the day, scheduled an appointment, hung up, and wentback to my work. As I was driving home later, I realized that I hadn’t put the time and date of the appointment into my calendar. This is how it went in my head: Was it Friday? No. I wanted to go in at the end of the day and she said they close early on Fridays. Must have been Thursday. 4:30? Or was it 4:00? I’m pretty sure it was 4:30. It’s NEXT week, right? I hope so, since I can’t go this Thursday. Is it at the east office or the downtown one? The east one is so much closer. That must be the one. I think. Once I finished talking myself through this, I had a feeling of unbelievable annoyance. Why didn’t they didn’t send me a message with the appointment confirmation? I work for a company that pioneered automated text and email patient messaging. How can it be that my own dentist doesn’t use this? If they had sent me a confirmation text or email, I could have put the information into my calendar w