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The Wobbly Bridge Wake-Up Call: Why Davao Families Can't Afford to Skip Dental Visits

The Silent Shift: How Skipping Dental Visits Leads to Costly Bridge Failure in Davao

In the bustling city of Davao, where family and hard work are paramount, a dental check-up is often the first thing to be cut from a tight budget. For the low-income family, it's a choice between a week's worth of groceries and a dental cleaning. For the middle-class family, it's an expense that can be postponed. But this postponement has a silent, cumulative cost, one that often reveals itself in the failure of something meant to be permanent, like a dental bridge.

Rampant Early Childhood Caries: Diagnosis, Urgent Management & Definitive Treatment Options

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Immediate visual diagnosis (short)

This image shows severe, rampant early childhood caries (S-ECC) of the maxillary primary teeth with extensive coronal destruction on both sides. Multiple primary molars appear non-restorable clinically (large cavitated lesions with dark necrotic dentine), and several teeth likely have pulpal involvement or necrosis. The upper anterior teeth look comparatively preserved, which is a typical pattern in bottle/formula/sugary-feed ECC.

Alveolar Bone Loss in Filipino Men: Why Middle-Aged Men (35-50) Fail Dental Exams

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The Silent Crisis: Why Middle-Aged Filipino Men Are Failing Dental Checkups

Posted on: October 26, 2023
Categories: Men's Health, Periodontal Disease, Patient Education
Tags: #PhilippinesDentalHealth #GumDisease #MensHealth #AlveolarBoneLoss #MiddleAgeHealth

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