Even with a lifetime of proper dental care and regular dental check-ups, cavities can still happen to you or your family members! At Panoramic Dental in Walnut Creek, CA, our highly-trained family dentists and expert staff can help pinpoint the telltale signs that you have a cavity forming. Servicing the greater Walnut Creek area, Panoramic Dental guarantees quality cavity diagnosis and treatments, helping to educate our patients about preventing cavities along the way.

At Panoramic Dental, our cosmetic dentists and staff want all our patients to have healthy, beautifully white smiles that they are proud of. Of course, with good regular oral hygiene and dental cleanings this can be achieved. But sometimes, we want our smiles to be a little bit more white, and we've got an easy way to reach your ideal smile: eat!

Maintaining good oral hygiene protects your teeth and gums from decay and disease. When bacteria combine with saliva and sugary starches in your mouth, plaque can form on your teeth. Plaque is a thin coating that covers your teeth and in between your teeth and can eat away at your enamel, causing tooth decay and discoloration. Plaque can also cause serious gum disease that can lead to the loss of teeth.

For our Walnut Creek area patients, cavities or periodontal disease almost always develops between the teeth, causing a variety of common problems. That's why the dentists and staff at Panoramic Dental really encourage all patients to floss at least once a day.

At Panoramic Dental, our mission is to help patients throughout Walnut Creek protect their smiles through comprehensive dental care. But the health of your smile depends on more than our in-office treatments, and in addition to brushing twice per day, flossing is foundational to the health of your smile. We believe patient education is vital to dental health, so for this blog, we want to dive into the reasons that flossing is so important to oral hygiene and healthy teeth.