Tag: healthy smile
The Benefits of Invisalign
Your beautiful smile may not be exactly up to your standards and that’s okay. There are many options to brighten, heal, or straighten your smile and get it exactly where you want it to be. One of the most common difficulties people deal with when correcting their smile is misalignment or crooked teeth.
Keeping Your Teeth Healthy in Between Dental Visits
If you’re like most people then you probably spend most of your time away from the dentist office and out enjoying life. In fact, you most likely don’t spend much time thinking about your teeth at all, maybe a total of five minutes a day while you are getting ready for the day in the […]
Keeping Your Smile Healthy at Holiday Parties
The holiday season is upon us, and with this jolly time of year comes parties outfitted with plenty of good food and holiday-themed drinks. While it’s easy to indulge during this merry time, it’s important not to let your usual dental care slip.
Bad Habits that Ruin Your Teeth
Everyone has his or her own bad habits. From being glued to the phone to skipping the gym on a regular basis, bad habits stick with you. Some habits are bad for your overall health and some effect more targeted places like your teeth. The bad habits that deal with your teeth could result in […]
How to Properly Care for A Retainer
Although braces can help create a beautiful smile, that smile won’t stay perfect without wearing a retainer if issued one by your dentist. This device, which is a custom-made piece of metal and plastic, is often needed by dental patients to keep teeth from drifting out of perfect alignment after braces are removed.
How Much Sugar is too Much Sugar this Halloween
With Halloween just around the corner, the cavity and sugar questions are starting to rise up and take over the minds of parents everywhere. Is sugar really that bad for my child’s teeth? Should I let my child eat chocolate? How many of pieces of candy can my child eat a day?
Is Coffee Ruining Your Smile Why Coffee Stains Your Teeth
When it comes to gearing up to take on the day, many of us rely on the old and true tradition of coffee. It’s the first thing we think about when we wake up and the only thing that helps us get through those rough Mondays.
Your Child’s First Visit to the Dentist
It’s a question in every new parent’s mind, “when should my child have their first dentist visit?” The answer is actually quite simple, when your child gets their first pearly white is when they should also have their first dentist visit. To boil it down even further, your child should have their first dentist visit […]
Teeth Grinding and its Consequences
Normally, your teeth would only touch when chewing food, however some people grind or clench their teeth together on a more frequent basis during the day and at night. People who grind or clench their teeth with unnatural regularity suffer from what is known as bruxism.