Dentists in Longview are dedicated to your oral health and care about the condition of your teeth. At Vaca & Kirby Dental we recognize that your teeth help you both eat and speak. You use your teeth to tear, scrape, and chew food, as well as to form words with your tongue.
Healthy teeth and gums are an important component of complete physical and mental health. An unhealthy smile can erode confidence, cause embarrassment, and make eating and speaking difficult. The team of dental professionals at Vaca & Kirby Dental in Longview, Texas, wants to help keep your mouth and teeth healthy so that they don’t adversely affect your strength in any way.
We humans have two sets of teeth in our lifetime. The first set is your ‘primary teeth’, which many people around Longview often call ‘baby teeth’. Baby teeth typically start to come in at about 6 months old. An average healthy mouth for a Longview resident has a total of 20 primary teeth by about age 5.
Your primary teeth will eventually fall out and new teeth known as ‘permanent teeth’ will grow in. Permanent teeth typically begin to come in around age 6 for most Longview residents, but every person is unique and it could be a little earlier or later. By about age 13, an average healthy mouth should have 28 of the total 32 permanent teeth. The last four permanent teeth may or may not come, but typically come in between the ages of 17 and 21 if they do. Because of the late age that these last teeth come in they are commonly called ‘wisdom teeth’.
Many adults in the city of Longview have their wisdom teeth pulled out because these teeth can be problematic to your oral health, such as crowding a mouth. Other adults in the Longview keep these teeth because they are not causing problems. If you are concerned about the state of your wisdom teeth you can visit our local Longview office and we can help you make this important decision.
Caring for all of your teeth – whether you are young and have 20 primary teeth or are an adult and have 28 to 32 permanent teeth – is necessary for total energy. Let your Longview dentist help keep you healthy and happy.
Contact Vaca & Kirby Dental:
903-663-0861
Location (Tap To Open In Google Maps):
3121 H G Mosley Pkwy
Longview, Texas
85605
