Most of my patients have a pretty good understanding of what I am talking about when referring to dental decay or gum disease. The terms have been used repeatedly in the press and on TV and patients all have at least an interpretation of what this means for them and what they need to do to prevent these. Dental erosion on the other hand is more of an alien entity. After all, it is invisible, well at least at the beginning. So, why would patients talk about something they cannot see? You don’t know what you don’t know. Yet the condition when advanced can be hugely detrimental to patients’ oral health and after a while, frighteningly irreversible.
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