The essence of this approach is that dental care should focus not on treating disease but on preventing it before it develops.
The concept of “longevity” aims to maximise the years of healthy life, and keeping the teeth intact is essential to achieve this.
Our recommendations are always made to improve and maintain the patient’s quality of life—by encouraging conscious habits and, when necessary, by using the most advanced dental technology.
Damage to teeth cannot be undone, but our goal is that—even after correction—your teeth should fully retain their original function and aesthetics.
1. Prevention
This covers what we should not do to our teeth as well as the daily care we should provide.
For example, do not brush your teeth within half an hour after meals.
Everyone needs an individualised oral care routine:
the way a 16-year-old with newly erupted permanent teeth cleans their mouth differs from the care needed by an adult with implants or bridges.
2. Prediction
This is a kind of scientific forecasting:
what consequences will current, ongoing stresses have on a tooth or dentition if nothing changes?
- For instance, if a cracked or root-treated tooth is left without a crown, it is highly likely to break—possibly requiring extraction.
- If gaps between teeth are left open and food regularly gets trapped, decay can develop on the neighbouring teeth over time.
3. Protection
Here we include most definitive dental treatments—measures that actively prevent harmful outcomes.
- For a root-treated tooth, we apply cusp protection, such as a crown or an inlay/onlay.
- If someone has deep fissures and a strong genetic tendency to caries, fissure sealing protects the tooth even before decay begins.
A simple example
- Protection: We recommend a professional hygiene treatment: our dental hygienist removes tartar caused by poor brushing technique or a natural tendency to plaque calcification, thus preventing gum recession and creating a healthy condition that can be maintained with proper home care.
- Prevention: After the hygiene treatment, a 15-minute personalised oral-hygiene consultation demonstrates the correct cleaning methods, preventing new tartar from forming and protecting the gum and the bite from long-term damage.
- Prediction: We evaluate individual risk factors—diet, hygiene habits—and determine when the next check-up is recommended, so that any new tartar or early gum damage can be detected in time.
This three-step mindset—prevention, prediction, protection—can equally be applied to caries, cracked teeth, damaged or poorly fitting restorations, or missing teeth.
The goal is to teach correct cleaning techniques, create high-precision, long-lasting restorations, and maintain a functionally satisfying and aesthetically natural dentition, with regular monitoring.
Ideally, patients themselves will seek dental care in accordance with the principles of prevention, prediction and protection.