3 Ways Gum Disease Damages Your Health (And What to Do About It)
Practicing good oral hygiene daily is essential to maintaining a healthy mouth and a confident smile. It can also protect your health in other valuable ways as well. Without it, however, gum disease can occur, and this can lead to several internal health issues throughout the body. Today, in the United States alone, approximately 50% of adults show signs of developing gum disease. While it continues to be the leading cause of tooth loss, if left undetected or untreated, gum [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Use Bleach Whether You’re Brushing Your Teeth or Whitening Them
When it comes to your smile, finding ways to make it shine can boost confidence and help you feel more comfortable in your appearance. A popular way to achieve that brighter smile is by whitening any discolored or stained teeth that stand out. How you go about that whitening, however, is crucial not just to achieving the results you want but in protecting your teeth and gums. Teeth whitening options abound these days, from over-the-counter whitening toothpastes, strips, and kits [...]
What Is the Difference Between Restorative and Cosmetic Dentistry?
Today you have choices when it comes to maintaining your dental health and creating a healthy, confident smile. While preventive dental care is essential to helping you achieve these, at times, you may need to consider additional services, such as restorative or cosmetic dentistry as well. Before this happens, however, it’s beneficial to understand the difference between these two types of dentistry and what they can offer. While they do share a few things in common, such as the restoration [...]
What Are the Components of Preventive Dentistry?
Maintaining a healthy mouth and shareable smile doesn’t have to be overly complicated. However, it does take a commitment to caring for your teeth and gums, and the way to do this is through the practice of preventive dentistry. Everyone is busy these days, and there never seems to be enough time to accomplish everything you want or need to do. With a little planning and building of healthy habits, however, you can keep your teeth and gums in good [...]
5 Dental Hygiene Tips to Keep Your Mouth Healthy in 2022
A new year provides the chance to make new goals for taking care of your health, including beneficial dental hygiene to keep teeth and gums at their optimal best. To help you start out the year with this in mind, here are five dental hygiene tips to keep your mouth healthy in 2022. While these tips aren’t new, they are simple, and once they become a habit, you’ll have no trouble sharing that confident smile over and over again. 1. [...]
7 Things You Should Know Before Getting CEREC Crowns
Feeling confident not only in your smile but the capacity of your teeth to handle everyday food and drink is imperative to daily life. Sometimes, however, your natural teeth need help and can lead to the need for various dental treatments, including crowns. Dental crowns provide a solution for several issues, including to repair a cracked or broken tooth, stabilize a weakened tooth, protect a damaged tooth, or reinforce a tooth requiring a root canal. With advancements in technology today, [...]
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