Digital dental clinic opens in Lagos, harps on preventing tooth, gum problems

Preference Dental, a digital dental clinic with state-of-the-art tools, has opened in Ikeja, Lagos, with providers concentrating on preventive dental treatment.

Handling Dentist, Selection Dental, Dr Sade Akiode, at its opening ceremony, reported it was to give preventive dentistry together with in depth dental assessment, digital X-rays, sealant, oral most cancers screening, and dental cleansing to Nigerians.

Dr Akiode, with over 20 many years of effective dental follow in Los Angeles, California, mentioned she decided to arrive again to Nigeria in 2011 to avail Nigerians of the same planet-course dental treatment that her individuals in the United States enjoy and to lower the incidence of Nigerians travelling abroad for health care tourism.

“We have due to the fact established up a thriving dental clinic at Karimu Kotun, Victoria Island, Lagos, with Ikeja branch becoming our second in Lagos and Nigeria,” claimed Dr Akiode.

According to her, the new dental clinic has nine working suites created up of the typical segment, VIP and children’s sections. Operated by nicely-properly trained dentists, radiographers and other ancillary dental staff, Option Dental is equipped to give a wide assortment of other companies in addition to preventive dentistry.

These are beauty dentistry which includes tooth whitening, splinting, and smile makeover general Dentistry such as white fillings, root canal remedy, dentures, extractions, children’s dentistry, and dental implants, between other people.

Dr Akiode described that Option Dental also provides specialised products and services such as total mouth reconstruction, oral surgical treatment, laser surgery and orthodontics.

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She decried the international and neighborhood consideration compensated to illnesses like malaria, HIV AIDS, and COVID-19 at the detriment of gum and mouth diseases, which can direct to other illnesses such as erectile dysfunction, cardiovascular ailments and even demise in some cases.

On his part, Chairman of the Board of Preference Dental, Dr Ernest Ndukwe, spoke on the need to have for attitudinal alter among the Nigerians with respect to their oral health and fitness, and questioned that they imbibe the culture of regular dental verify-ups as a substitute of ready until finally they have toothache or pain in the mouth before heading to see a dentist.

The World-wide Stress of Illness research 2019 estimated that oral diseases impact shut to 3.5 billion people today around the world, with caries of long term enamel staying the most popular problem.

Globally, $200 billion is lost per year owing to very poor awareness to oral wellbeing treatment. Furthermore, Nigeria loses in between N300 and N500 million each and every calendar year to this far too.