There are many things that could see you keep postponing a visit to the dentist, even after having experienced some discomfort in your mouth ('discomfort' being anything from a toothache to a gum problem and onto a teeth problem when processing hot or cold things in the mouth).
On the one hand, it could be a lack of time, where you feel that you can't squeeze a visit to the dentist into your 'busy schedule.
' Or it could be financial worries, where you fear that the visit to the dentist could cost you more money than you currently have.
Or yet still, it could be a case where it is a fear of pain that causes you to keep postponing the visit to the dentist: where you have the impression that the dentist's operations could cause you much pain; so that your current pain notwithstanding, you feel motivated to keep postponing your appointment with the dentist.
Whatever your motivation for delaying a visit to the dentist though, you need to beware of the fact that that you could be lining yourself for some truly scary things by so doing.
If your postponement of the visit to the dentist is motivated by a fear of the pain that the dental procedures are likely to cause you, you need to beware of the fact that you could be lining up for much worse pain in the future.
In fact, this is more of a certainty, rather than a probability.
You may think that the pain you are currently experiencing is the worst possible form of pain, but in actual fact, you haven't see anything yet.
We have seen people (precisely fully grown men) writhing on the ground on account of pain emanating from the teeth - so that it can truly get bad).
And this, by the way, is a fate you are very likely to suffer, if you choose to continue accommodating the infected teeth in your mouth (as the bacteria keep multiplying).
Yet all it would take is a timely visit to the dentist to save you from such crazy pain.
And by the way, most of the people who get to visit dentists, even for the grisliest of teeth extraction procedures, confess that the pain was completely underwhelming: much less than what they feared for.
If your postponement of the visit to the dentist is motivated by a 'lack of time' you need to beware of the fact that your delay of such a visit could (and is indeed likely to) lead you into a worse infection, on whose treatment you will most likely spend much greater amounts of time.
It is in your best interests, even in terms of time-saving, to see the dentist at the earliest possible opportunity.
And worse still, you need to beware of the fact that your continued postponement of the visit to the dentist (even where it is clear that you have a teeth infection) could lead you to the ultimate fate: an early death.
It is not us who are saying this.
Research has shown a correlation between teeth infections that remain untreated for long and higher incidence of heart attack, which often leads to an early death.
This probably has something to do with the eventual integration into the bloodstream of the bacteria that cause the dental infections.
The earlier you can rid your body of them, the better it would be for you.
And all it may take, to rid yourself of these bacteria, could be a 'drilling and filling' procedure where the overall damage to the tooth is still not too far advanced, or a tooth extraction (which can be painlessly done under anesthesia), where the damage to the tooth is already too advanced.