Checking your teeth for tooth decay is just one part of a thorough dental examination.

During your checkup appointment,your dentist(or dental hygienist) will likely evaluate the health of your gums,perform a head or neck examination(to look for anything out of the ordinary)and examine your mouth for any indications of Oral Cancer,diabetes or vitamins deficiencies .

Don't be surprised if your dentist also examines your face,bite,saliva and movement of your lower jaws joints(TMJs).

Your dentist or dental hygienist will then clean your teeth and stress the importance of you maintaining good Oral hygiene at home between evaluation.

Teeth cleaning also known as prophylaxis, literally a preventive treatment of a disease)is a procedure for the removal of tartar(mineralized plaque)that may develop even with careful brushing and flossing, especially in area that are difficult to reach in routine tooth brushing.

It is often done by a dental hygienist.professional cleaning includes tooth scaling and tooth polishing and debridement if too tartar has accumulated . This involves the use of various instruments or devices to loosen and remove deposits from the teeth

A dental restoration or dental filling is a dental restorative material used to restore the function, integrity and morphology of missing tooth structure .

The structural loss typically result from caries or external trauma.It is also lost intentionally during tooth preparation to improve the aesthetics or the physical integrity of the intended restoration material.

Dental restoration also refers to replacement of the missing tooth structure that is supported by dental implants.

A Root canal is a treatment to repair and save a badly damaged or infected tooth.

The procedure involves removing the damaged area of the tooth (the pulp), cleaning and disinfecting it and then filing and sealing it. The common cause affecting the pulp are a cracked tooth,a deep cavity, repeated dental treatment to the tooth or trauma .

The term Root Canal comes from cleaning of the canals inside the tooth & roots

Endodontic therapy or root canal therapy is a sequence of treatment for the infected pulp tooth which results in the elimination of infection and the protection of the decontaminated tooth from future microbial invasion. 

Root Canals,and their associated pulp chamber,are the physical hollows within a tooth that are naturally inhabited by nerve tissue,blood vessels and other cellular entities.Together,these items constitute the dental pulp . Endodontic therapy involves the removal of these structure; the subsequent shaping ,cleaning ,and decontamination of the hollows with small files and irrigating solutions, and the obturation (filling)of the decontaminated canals. filling of the cleaned and decontaminated canals is done with an inert filling such as gutta-percha and typically a eugenol-based cement.Epoxy resin is employed to bind gutta-percha in some root canal procedures.

Endodontics includes Both primary and secondary endodontic treatment and periradicular surgery ,which is generally used for teeth that still have potential for salvage.

A bridge is a fixed dental restoration(at fixed dental prosthesis)used to have missing tooth (or several )by joining an artificial tooth permanently to adjacent teeth or dental implants.

A crown is a type of dental restoration which completely caps or encircles a tooth or dental implant.Crowns are often needed when a large cavity threatens the ongoing health of tooth.They are typically bonded to the tooth using a dental cement.Crowns can be made from any materials,Which are usually fabricated using indirect methods. 

Crowns are often used to improve the strength or appearance of teeth. While inarguable beneficial to dental health,the procedure and materials can be relatively expensive.

A removable partial denture(RPD) is a denture for a partially edentulous patient.who desire to have replacement teeth for functional or aesthetic reasons and who cannot have a bridge(a fixed partial denture)for any numbers of reasons,such as a lack required teeth to serve as support for a bridge (i.e.distal abutments) or financial limitations.

This type of prosthesis is referred to as a removable partial denture  because patient can remove and reinsert it,when required without professional help . Conversely a fixed prosthesis can and should be removed only by dental professional.