Under Chicago's Cloud Gate, Dr Ian Davis on working through a dental mirror, and why your mouth can show what's going on elsewhere in your body.
Key points
- Dentists see much of your mouth through a small mirror, so they learn to work in reverse.
- Treating teeth through a mirror is a skill every dentist has to learn.
- Things in your mouth can reflect what is going on in the rest of your body.
- A check-up looks at your teeth, gums and the rest of your mouth, and what we see there can point to other health issues.
Transcript
Hello, this is Ian Davis from BDS Dental. As you can probably tell, I'm not in London, I'm in Chicago.
And as I look at this amazing reflective surface, I'm reminded that as a dentist, I'm often looking at the teeth through the reflective surface of my mirror. As a dentist, we often have to look through the mirror and work out exactly what's going on, and often treating the teeth actually in reverse. It's a skill that all dentists do learn.
Often things in the mouth can actually reflect what's going on in the body. And I think not only in the mouth, we often see things which will show us what is going on, not just with the mouth and with the teeth and with the gums, but can often reflect other issues.
