You must have heard time and time again about how good oral hygiene is crucial for maintaining your overall health. But did you know that it entails more than just brushing and flossing your teeth? Good oral hygiene is something that requires commitment and knowing the most effective strategies for keeping not just your pearly…
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Finding the Right Dental Office for Your Invisalign
For years, anyone seeking an orthodontic solution for crooked teeth had little choice beyond traditional metal braces. It’s not that metal braces were not effective, they were just the best option available for a long time. However, now dental patients young and old have more available options, including the clear custom-fitted Invisalign braces. Before There Was Invisalign…
How Visiting the Dental Office is a Cornerstone of Your Overall Health
Research has shown that poor oral health, especially gum disease, is strongly linked to serious health problems such as heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and brain health. Even more surprisingly, poor oral health and or gum disease can have adverse effects during pregnancy. The reason your dental health affects your overall health is largely due to…
Properly caring for your dentures
Properly caring for your dentures not only means you will have them looking their best, it also contributes to the overall health of your mouth. Partial or full dentures require proper caring and cleaning routine to keep them clean and free from stains. Even when you are not wearing your dentures, remember to keep them…
Advice from the Dentist’s Desk
Even if you take tremendous care of your teeth and overall oral health, bacterial plaque is always present and constantly trying to damage your teeth and cause oral diseases. We all make mistakes, and when it comes to healthy teeth only a few of us know how to avoid them and the consequences thereafter. Dentists…
What EXACTLY are Tooth Fillings?
Tooth fillings or restorations help restore a tooth damaged by decay back to its normal function. Your dentist may recommend a filling when tooth decay has caused a hole to form on a tooth surface. As with anything in life, no one type of filling is best for everyone. What filling is specifically designed for…
Is Invisalign for Me?
Braces are extremely common, in fact, nearly 75% of all kids and teens need some type of dental adjustments. For a very long time, the only ways to fix your dental alignment consisted of either braces or some sort of retainers, but recently that has all been changing. Invisalign is a “clear aligner system” that…