Electric Toothbrushes vs. Manual Toothbrushes If you’ve been brushing your teeth twice a day for two minutes each time, you’re already doing better than most people.
What is Tooth Enamel? Did you know the hardest substance in the human body lives in your mouth?
How to Make Flossing a Daily Habit Are you an all-star when it comes to brushing your teeth but a rookie on the flossing front? Brushing our teeth is a straightforward, instantly rewarding task, a morning-evening routine that makes our mouths feel clean and breath minty fresh.
Pediatric vs. General Dentists: Which is Right For Your Child?
Smile Easy Again with Fixed Hybrid Dentures If you’ve suffered from tooth loss, bone loss, or periodontal disease, you may be hesitant to smile big – or at all. But with innovations like fixed hybrid dentures making mouth restorations quicker, more effective, and less expensive, a beautiful smile may be in your future.
Got a crooked set of lower teeth or an overbite you’d love to correct…but the thought of wearing a mouth full of metal is a deal breaker? Don’t give up on your dream of getting that fantastic smile.
For years, chips, cracks, and gaps in teeth were fixed with dental bonding. Then along came porcelain veneers, an ultra-strong and stain-resistant option that delivered movie-star smiles to millions of ordinary people.
Teeth help us chew, talk, and smile, but they aren’t just white hunks of enamel attached to your jawbone. Those 32 white wonders in your mouth are highly developed tools, each featuring distinct parts designed to perform a specific job.
Imagine a tool that can treat gum disease, lessen dental pain, whiten teeth, and minimize bleeding. Sounds like the makings of a near-perfect dental experience, right?
If you’re still hanging onto a smoking habit, booking regular visits to the dentist is a must. This highly addictive habit has major consequences for your oral health, including gum disease, tooth loss, and even oral cancer.
The pandemic brought plenty of changes to our lives–some we’d prefer never to revisit and others that have led to innovative new ways of living. Virtual dentist visits–or teledentistry–is one such revolution.
A Checklist for Better Managing Dental Anxiety Some fear about visiting the dentist is normal, right? After all, you’re leaving wide open a sensitive area of your face for someone to poke and prod around in there.
Brushing your teeth can feel a lot like driving a car—you’ve been doing it so long now you’re on autopilot every time you saddle up to the sink. But proper brushing takes more attention than most people give it.
Did you know nearly 150 Americans will be newly diagnosed with mouth cancers every day, according to the Oral Cancer Foundation? Most are found as late-stage cancers, with a death rate of about 43 percent at five years from diagnosis.
When it comes to your wisdom teeth, understanding when and why they may need to go is what’s most important to your oral health care. Wisdom teeth are a bit like the appendix—at one point necessary for our survival, but now no longer so useful.
We all want a healthy, beautiful smile. Straight and unstained teeth are a desire for many of us.
A smile is so much more than just a set of teeth, and it’s much more powerful than you may think. In fact, psychological research has suggested that our smiles are the windows to our souls.
