Dental visit frequency
A general check up (every 6-12 months) ensures your dentist detects any problems in their early stages, before they become more severe. Your dentist can suggest prevention strategies or treatment. Treatment in the early stages is generally easier and much cheaper.
Every two years, all children should receive at least one course of general oral health care, including appropriate oral health promotion. Children with greater dental needs should be recalled more frequently.
All adults should receive at least one course of general dental care every three years, on average.
How often should I have a dental check-up?
After your check-up, your dentist will recommend a date for your next visit. The time to your next check-up could be as short as three months or as long as two years (or up to one year if you're under 18).
Generally, the lower your risk of dental problems, the longer you can wait before your next check-up. So people with good oral health will probably need to attend only once every 12 to 24 months, but those with more problems will need check-ups more often.
Inflammation and body temperature
(a) Normothermia, where set-point and actual body temperature coincide. This condition occurs during most of the time.
(b) Hypothermia, where set-point may or may not be normal, but actual body temperature is below this set-point. Hypothennia can occur as a response to a drug, disease or exposure to the cold.
(c) Hyperthermia, where set-point may or may not be normal, but actual body temperature is higher than this set-point. Hyperthermia can occur as a response to a drug, disease or exposure to a warm environment.
(d) Fever, where set-point is raised and deep body temperature may or may not be raised to the same level.
Inflammation and the Pathophysiology of Fever
The inflammatory response is a generic response no matter what is injuring the body. The purpose is to destroy noxious (harmful) agents and help the tissue heal and get better.
Fever: Chemicals are being released from injured cells, carried from the blood stream into your brain and raising the thermostatic set point to a higher level. If you have your thermostat in your home raised from 70 to 80 to 85. That will cause the heater to turn on until it reaches that new higher set point. Leukocytic pyrogen and prostaglandins act on the hypothalamic neurons, the thermostatic center of your brain, causing an increase in the thermostat set-point.
The classical febrile response (Fever)
Below you see a graph with the X-axis being time and the Y-axis as temperature. This graph shows two lines. A dashed line and a solid line. The dashed line starts out at 37°C (98.6°F) and that’s the set point. We said your actual body temperature oscillates around that because your body doesn’t activate heating or cooling mechanisms until the temperature goes below or above the set point, respectively.

The onset of fever
We said interleukins and prostaglandins raise the set point. It’s generally believed that the greater the injury, the more of these chemicals are released and the greater the set point is raised. In other words, the higher the temperature is raised, the greater the injury is. So let’s say your new set point is now 103°F and your actual body temp is 98.6°F and the Thermoregulatory Reflex Center compares the two and thinks you are way colder than you should be. So, the control center is going to tell the body to warm your body up to 103°F.

The breaking of the fever
Let’s suppose there’s a viral infection so it’s totally up to your own immune system to fight it because we don’t have antiviral drugs that do anything. There’s a wisdom to the body that allows us to survive these things. Either the virus kills you and the story ends there, such as with elderly with weak immune systems. Or, the cells starts start to heal and stop releasing the chemicals that cause fever (prostaglandins and the interleukins), returning back to the normal set point but now, your actual body temperature is at 103°F.
This will activate the homestostatic reflexes for cooling: You will feel very hot, your blood vessels in your skin will dilate and you’ll start to sweat (some people will sweat so much they will soak their sheets). This is known as the “breaking” of the fever because the set point will return back to normal.