5 Benefits of Your Smile

5 Benefits of Your Smile

By admin July 5th

A beautiful, healthy smile can work wonders for your confidence and your outlook on life, as well as improve other’s views of you. With all of today’s options for cosmetic dentistry and orthodontics, it is easier than ever to maintain a happy, glowing set of teeth. But the benefits of a healthy mouth go beyond just looks and impressions. Maintaining good oral hygiene is a good move for your overall health as well.

1. Confidence and Stress Relief

Did you know a healthy smile can actually cause you to carry less stress throughout your life? While this is obviously affected by a number of other factors, the confidence gained by having a healthy smile tends to lead to people smiling more often. The act of smiling alone releases endorphins into your body, elevating your mood and helping to balance the levels of the stress hormone cortisol, leaving your feeling happier and more relaxed throughout your day.

2. Strengthen your Immune System and Protect Your Health

“Laughter is the Best Medicine,” as the old saying goes. Turns out that confidence and smiling more often can be highly effective towards helping your body fend off illness. Studies by the Mayo Clinic have indicated that positive thinking alone can boost your brain’s ability to quickly send out responses to the immune system to start fighting off illness, which in turn boosts its efficiency. By lowering cortisol levels through endorphins released by smiling more often, you literally set yourself up for better health overall.

On top of this, great dental hygiene is itself a great asset to your health. Chipped, malaligned or missing teeth and cavities lead to irritated and injured gums, which cause your body to be more susceptible to infection and illness coming into your body through the mouth, and have been linked to heart disease as well. A healthy and clean palate act as a shield for your body from these conditions.

3. Improve Your Relationships

Smiling more often could lead to more stable, lasting relationships in both professional and personal areas of your life. A study performed in 2009 concluded that by examining early photographs of married couples, one could reasonably predict the couple’s outcome of divorce later on in life. Couples who smiled less often and less intensely (even in photos which only one of the individuals was depicted) were found to be much more likely to divorce later in life, and couples who smiled more often and intensely had a greater rate of remaining married. When it comes to business, a smile can help you gravitate people towards you, expresses confidence in your own abilities, and makes you more likable, helping to build positive, long-lasting professional relationships.

4. Saves you Money

A healthier smile can help you save money, plain and simple. Regular dental expenses such as check-ups and hygiene products are to be expected throughout life and are essential if you wish to maintain a pristine smile and oral health. These are truly worthwhile though as they help you prevent more major and expensive procedures down the road.

5. Good Habits Beget Good Habits

Having a regular, successful dental hygiene routine can help you excel in regulating other areas of your life as well. Like the old saying goes, establishing one good habit or routine in your life helps make it easier to do it again in another area, and soon you’re an expert, handling the more tedious parts of life with a breeze and leaving yourself more time and focus for what you really want to be spending your time doing.

Let Us Help

Here at Elko Dental Specialists, we strive to make sure maintaining your healthy beautiful smile is as easy and enjoyable as can be. Whether you are a seasoned hygiene pro who just needs a regular appointment or just starting out on regaining your dental health, we are more than pleased to help in any way we can. Contact us today to set up an appointment.

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