Daily brushing and flossing can go a long way in protecting your teeth and gums. Yet, even when you do everything right, sometimes gum disease can occur. When this happens, it’s essential to know what your options are and the best ways to achieve healing. Your dentist can help, providing you with a diagnosis, next [...]
When it comes to your oral health, teeth often take center stage. Yet, your gums can also suffer when tooth decay builds up. Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease, can sneak up on you, significantly affecting your dental health and potentially leading to tooth loss. Learning to recognize the clues that periodontal disease may [...]
When it comes to maintaining a healthy mouth and smile, dental crowns can play a crucial role. This role may be to improve the functioning of a natural tooth or to help create a more even smile. While a safe and popular choice, there is still the possibility of developing an infection if your dental [...]
When it comes to oral cancer, the earlier the detection, the better the chances for implementing the right treatment for success. To help with this, patients need to undergo oral cancer screenings as part of their overall health plan to ensure any signs or symptoms are identified early on. Fortunately, most regularly scheduled dental appointments [...]
When it comes to your at-home practices for maintaining good oral hygiene, you want to use the best products possible to ensure a healthy mouth and radiant smile. One such product is a specialized mouthwash, particularly one designed to help treat, manage, and prevent gum disease. While there are many mouthwashes available in the marketplace [...]
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 [...]
While a great smile involves your teeth looking their best, it’s the health of those teeth that make all the difference. You can thank the tooth’s tough outer layer, the enamel, for its natural protection, serving as the first line of defense to everyday dangers that threaten. Not only is tooth enamel tough, but it [...]
With so many people experiencing acid reflux today, it’s no wonder diets are changing and more medications are showing up on shelves. While much attention focuses on the effects to the esophagus itself, acid reflux can also cause increasing damage to your dental health in the form of tooth erosion. The loss of tooth enamel, [...]
A smile is one of your biggest assets. It can not only dazzle others but also boost your own self-confidence. One of the last things you want to show, then, are brown spots taking up space between your teeth. Your teeth getting brown spots be the result of several issues, some simple and others a [...]
We do many things daily without much thought or effort, including smiling and chewing. What quickly catches our attention, however, is when pain or soreness rears its ugly head inside our mouths, causing discomfort even with the simplest of actions. That smile may turn into a frown, and any thought of eating those warm or [...]
