How Long Does It Take A Cavity To Form? - Today's Dental

Today’s Dental began in 1980 with one location. It was founded with the goal of providing high-quality, safe, convenient, and comfortable dental care in a family-friendly setting.

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• Pediatric Dental Care
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• Tranquility Park

How Long Does It Take for a Cavity to Form?

There is a constant battle taking place in your mouth. One one side, we have the bad bacteria in your mouth that live to feed on food residue containing your dietary sugar and starches. But on the other side you have our whole team at Today’s Dental and your own oral hygiene routine to combat the formation of tooth decay and cavities. Today, we want to talk about how a cavity forms and how you can defend yourself from cavity-causing bacteria.

How Do Cavities Form?

Your tooth enamel may be the hardest surface in your body, but it is not invincible. Holes, called cavities, form when acids in your mouth gradually weaken and wear away your tooth enamel. The bad bacteria in your mouth feed on sugars and starches and produce these acids as a by-product. If you do not practice good oral hygiene, debris and bacteria also accumulate into a sticky film called plaque, which can cause gums to become swollen and tender.

How Long Does It Take to Get a Cavity?

It may surprise you to learn that the speed at which a cavity can form depends on your age! The enamel in baby teeth is softer and more likely to develop cavities than adult teeth — a great reason to make sure your kids are practicing superb oral hygiene every day. In adults, cavities can form over months or even years. For this reason, we recommend visits to our office every six months so we can make check whether your teeth are strong and healthy. Our team can spot and treat a developing cavity long before you may notice any problem.

Cavity Prevention Tips

Regular visits to our office are not the only thing you need to do to care for your teeth! Your at-home oral hygiene is critical for maintaining a healthy smile. Be sure you’re brushing your teeth twice each day for two minutes each time, flossing at least once each day, drinking plenty of water, eating a nutritious diet, and chewing only sugar-free gum. To ask our team any questions about how to prevent cavities or to schedule your next checkup at one of our dental offices, contact us today!

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(402) 551-1811 2141 S. 63rd Street Omaha, NE 68106

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(402) 291-4411 2207 Longo Drive Bellevue, NE 68005

Elkhorn

(402) 505-1910 20211 Manderson St. Elkhorn, NE 68022

Fremont

(402) 727-9292 1689 E 23rd St. Fremont, NE 68025

Millard

(402) 333-1120 14406 Harrison St. Omaha, NE 68138

Tranquility

(402) 496-9950 12322 Emmet St. Omaha, NE 68164

Today’s Dental began in 1980 with one location. It was founded with the goal of providing high-quality, safe, convenient, and comfortable dental care in a family-friendly setting.

Schedule an Appointment

Services

• Family Dentistry
• Pediatric Dental Care
• Cosmetic Dentistry and Orthodontics
• Urgent & Emergency Care

Locations

• Aksarben
• Bellevue
• Elkhorn
• Fremont
• Millard
• Tranquility Park

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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.

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• Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
• ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
• Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
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