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Diet Dos and Don'ts for Oral Health
posted: Oct 07, 2014.
What and how you eat and drink has a significant impact on the health of your teeth and gums. Therefore, an effective oral hygiene regime must take your diet into Read more -
Dental Injuries in Sports: A True/False Quiz
posted: Sep 29, 2014.
Everyone knows that football players and boxers wear mouthguards to protect their teeth from injury — in fact, it's thought that this essential piece of protective gear was first developed, Read more -
Finding the Right Bacterial Balance for Optimum Oral Health
posted: Sep 26, 2014.
By the time you reach adulthood, roughly 100 trillion microscopic organisms will have taken up residence in and on your body, outnumbering your own cells 10 to 1. Most are Read more -
Saving a Baby Tooth is the Best Option for Permanent Tooth Development
posted: Sep 18, 2014.
Our “baby” teeth begin appearing around six months of age — by age 10 or 13, they’ve largely been replaced by our permanent teeth. Though their lifespan is relatively short, Read more -
Removing Bacterial Plaque is Critical to Halting Advancing Gum Disease
posted: Sep 10, 2014.
Treating periodontal (gum) disease is rather straightforward: remove the bacterial plaque that causes the disease. The techniques to accomplish this are varied, depending on how far the disease has advanced Read more -
Develop a Long-Term Strategy to Prevent Tooth Decay
posted: Sep 02, 2014.
Tooth decay (dental caries) is one of the world’s most common infectious diseases. Left untreated, it can lead to tooth loss. The best treatment strategy, of course, is to prevent Read more -
Veneers are a Versatile Means to Achieving a Confident Smile
posted: Aug 29, 2014.
Nothing says confidence like a bright, beautiful smile. But problems with your teeth’s appearance — discoloration, abnormal shapes, or gaps — may be giving you reasons not to smile. If Read more -
New Orleans Claim to Dental Invention!
posted: Aug 20, 2014.
Think of New Orleans, Louisiana, and what comes to mind? The sound of jazz pouring out from a nightclub in the French Quarter… the smell of shrimp boiling in a Read more -
Crown Lengthening can Increase Your Restoration Options
posted: Aug 15, 2014.
A crown is an effective way to save a tooth and restore its form and function. These life-like “caps” that fit over and are permanently attached to teeth have been Read more -
Dental-Friendly Chewing Gum can be Beneficial to Your Oral Health
posted: Aug 04, 2014.
Chewing gum, so much a part of modern culture, actually has ancient roots — humans have been chewing some form of it for thousands of years. While gum chewing is Read more -
Crowns Preserve the Tooth While Offering Greater Protection Than a Filling
posted: Aug 01, 2014.
The preferred outcome when treating a tooth for decay is to preserve it. If the disease is still in its early stages, we can accomplish this effectively by removing diseased Read more -
Plan to Keep Your New Hygiene Habit on Track
posted: Jul 23, 2014.
The most important thing you can do for your dental health is to develop a daily habit of removing plaque, the bacterial film that builds up on your teeth and Read more -
Introducing the Royal Baby...and His New Teeth!
posted: Jul 15, 2014.
Not long ago, a certain Royal Baby made his first major public appearance. At a “crawl-about” in New Zealand, young Prince George (the 8-month-old son of Prince William and Kate Read more -
Implant Overdentures: a Marriage of Options for Lower Jaw Tooth Replacement
posted: Jun 18, 2014.
For well over a century, removable dentures have been the main treatment option for patients suffering from severe or total edentulism (loss of teeth). In recent years, however, the dental Read more -
Five Reasons to Whiten your Teeth
posted: Jun 10, 2014.
Nothing conveys confidence quite like a bright, white smile. Unfortunately, not all smiles are created equal. And, some smiles are much whiter than others. Whether your teeth have become discolored Read more -
Strict Infection Control Protects Dental Patients
posted: Jun 02, 2014.
It’s rare now to encounter a news story about an infection spreading among a group of dental patients — a rarity thanks to the development of standards and procedures for Read more
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