Smiles say a lot. A smile can say “hello”. A smile can say “I care”. A smile can say “I like that”. Or a smile can say “I don’t care – about me”. A person who has dirty, dingy, broken teeth or people who are missing teeth, certainly express a certain impression about themselves.

Dr. Kourosh Maddahi, Beverly Hills dentist, is concerned with the Los Angeles population and their smiles – that is, with their teeth. Among what are considered the top fifteen U.S. metropolitan regions, Los Angeles ranked in the bottom three with regard to dental care. The three best were the Bay Area, Philadelphia and Boston.

Recently a survey of American adults regarding personal dental care habits was conducted by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. That survey found that only twenty-nine percent of those surveyed actually brush and floss once a day, as well as have a teeth cleaning at the dentist once a year. Many forgo at least one of these.

Of those who do brush and floss daily and annually visit the dentist for a cleaning, eighty-four percent said their motivation was to keep teeth and gums healthy. The other reason, given by eighty percent, was simply to clean the teeth of food and other debris.

Are you a poor brusher? Do you also have trouble getting dates? Seventy-three percent said they would not be involved with a partner who did not brush their teeth at least once a day. Forty-one percent of those said their partner has to brush twice a day.

If you are considering improving your statistics in the area, but want a few weeks to brush first, you are not alone. Seventy-seven percent of those surveyed said that they brush their teeth more thoroughly than usually when they know they are going to see the dentist.

Although we all have been told, our entire lives, that a professional teeth cleaning by the dentist or dental hygienist is important for our dental health and welfare, almost half of the population have not had their teeth cleaned professionally in the past year. Only fifty-three percent said they had.

On the other hand, they know that they should be taking better care of their teeth. More than one quarter of the surveyed American adults said they are not satisfied with their current oral health care routine and they feel they should improve it.

That could be because they don’t necessarily feel that there exists solutions for what they consider the most important factor in dental hygiene, removing bacteria and germs. Yet only 52 percent felt that their current oral health care routine actually was effective at doing so.

Those surveyed had one other beef. Sixty-nine percent said that they feel it important that toothpaste clean between the teeth. Only forty-nine percent feel that their toothpaste is effectively cleaning between the teeth.

Los Angeles dentist, Dr. Kourosh Maddahi stresses solutions for all oral health and hygiene troubles. His dentist office in Beverly Hills provides high tech procedures and equipment to resolve any dental problem there may be.

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