Millions of Americans have experienced that feeling of panic that settles in when they realize they’ve chipped a tooth. Sometimes it happens due to brunt force impact from a fall or other accident. At other times, a tooth can chip from something as simple as biting down on an unexpectedly hard piece of food. In…
Important Answers to Six Common Dental Implant Questions
Dental implants have rapidly become one of the most popular dental replacement options for patients in many areas of the world. They can be used to replace a single missing tooth or even for replacing a span of teeth. Moreover, with quality dental crowns, these implants can provide all the functionality and aesthetic appeal patients…
Are You Flossing as Often as You Should?
For decades, Americans have been told about the important role that flossing plays in their oral health regimen. Despite that consistent messaging, the evidence suggests that as many as half of all Americans fail to floss daily. That’s more than twice the number of people who fail to brush their teeth twice daily and could…
Periodontitis and Deep Cleaning Treatment
If you’ve followed a rigid dental routine for most of your life and never had a dentist refuse to clean your teeth, then you can certainly consider yourself fortunate. Though it might come as a shock to some people, there are times when your dental professional simply cannot provide you with that regularly-scheduled cleaning that…
Six Early Warning Signs of Gum Disease
Gum disease is one of the most difficult conditions for patients to detect in its early stages, since its symptoms are often so subtle that the average patient just dismisses the possibility of any serious ailment. Unfortunately, it’s not a condition that can be safely ignored, since it remains one of the main reasons for…
Can Your Visit to the Dentist Prevent Pneumonia?
According to official estimates, about a million Americans each year experience the infectious condition known as pneumonia. Roughly 50,000 of those patients end up dying from the illness. Of course, most people know that many of those patients are elderly, suffering from lung ailments, or otherwise in poor health. Now, new research suggests that there…
Start the Year with Whiter Teeth
With 2017 here, many of us are still struggling to figure out how to keep some of those New Year’s resolutions that we made the night before we threw out last year’s calendar. You probably know all the most common resolutions already: lose a few pounds; spend more time with the kids; finally get around…
Is Mouthwash Part of Your Daily Oral Hygiene Regimen?
Studies continue to show that far too many of us neglect at least one element of our dental hygiene regimen. Dentists and researchers have long recommended a regular oral hygiene regimen that includes daily brushing, flossing, and mouthwash use, as well as scheduled visits to the dentist for checkups and maintenance treatment. And while there’s…
Can Fruits and Vegetables Reduce Oral Cancer Risk?
In the battle against oral cancer, there’s been a great deal of attention paid to things that we shouldn’t do – like using tobacco. When health experts do focus their attention on positive steps that we can take to reduce the risk of oral cancer, they tend to emphasize things like brushing, flossing, and the…
Why Fluoride is Your Friend
It seems that every few years, there’s some sort of move to frighten the public about one thing or another. We all remember the egg scare from years ago, when Americans were warned that eating eggs would raise our cholesterol and kill us prematurely. It was only after tens of millions of people adjusted their…