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Dental Health & Wellness information on everything from pediatric dental care to cosmetic dentistry. 

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How to Tackle Your Dental Anxiety

Dental anxiety is a common problem that can affect people of all ages. It can range from mild nervousness to severe phobias that prevent people from seeking dental care.
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Understanding Root Canals

Root canals are a dental procedure that removes the infected or damaged pulp from a tooth. The pulp is the soft tissue inside the tooth that contains blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue.
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How To Stop Teeth Grinding: 7 Tips

Grinding your teeth may seem like a harmless habit, but over time, all that wear and tear can destroy enamel, place significant stress on your jaw muscles and joints and even cause persistent jaw and
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Dental Implant Questions and Answers

Many people are curious about dental implants as a choice for replacing missing teeth. If you are considering dental implants, read this FAQ for answers to the most common questions about this
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How to Ease Your Dental Anxiety

Many people avoid getting appropriate dental care because they're afraid of the dentist or ashamed at the current state of their teeth. Both adults and children can have some apprehension about going
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Diet and your teeth

Each of your teeth are a tiny living organs that are as much a part of your body as your heart. So what can you do to bring health to these mini miracles?
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Infant Dental Care, Baby Teeth

It is a common misconception that dental healthbecomes an issue only after the eruption of the first primary, or baby teeth. Toothdevelopment actually begins during the second month of prenatal
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The History of the Toothbrush

Wow, sonic technology to clean our teeth!That's what we have now, and it makes it easy to have cleaner, whiter teeth and healthier gums. The sonic technology drives the bristle tip velocity so that
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How Dental Insurance Works

If you have dental insurance then you probably do not fully understand how it works. Don't worry you are not alone. First of all every dental insurance company has it's own set of rules.
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Dental Insurance for Dummies

When your medical or dental insurance sends you an explanation of benefits (EOB) in the mail, do you throw it unopened on a pile of paperwork that includes the deferment paperwork for your student
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Your Teeth Are Alive And Hungry! Part 1

You brush, floss, rinse and see your dentist twice a year or more. You have a couple of cavities each year, maybe a crown, post or root canal. You would be totally willing to do more at home for
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Flossing and Heart Health

New Year's is always resolutions time. But why put off until tomorrow what you can do today? How about a new super healthy habit? “Flossing Your Heart!” That's right, don't just stop at your teeth,
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Vitamin E & Periodontal Disease

Periodontal disease affects the tissues that surround your teeth: your gum tissue, or gingiva, the ligaments that hold your teeth in place, or the bone that surrounds and stabilizes each tooth root.
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How To Choose The Right Toothbrush

You’ve probably noticed that toothbrushes have different bristle firmness ratings - soft, medium, and hard. This tells you how firm the bristles are and how much pressure they put on your teeth and
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Bad breath?

Have you ever noticed that your friends or co-workers take a step back when you say hello? Do they turn away from you when you talk to them? This could be a sign that you have bad breath. Bad breath
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Root Canal - What To Expect

The most feared form of dental surgery is the notorious "root canal".Despite being so widely feared, many people, even those who have had one performed, have no idea what is involved.
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Bad Posture Can Cause TMJ Disorder

After years of braces your teeth are perfectly aligned. You do not grind or clench your teeth at night. You do not bite your fingernails, chew on pen caps, or engage in any other bad oral habits.
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How to Choose the Best Dental Toothpaste

The choice of toothpaste can often seem bewildering,and most people have a favorite or choose the brand that's on special offer. However this may not necessarily be the best choice, as certain types
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Overcoming Dental Fears

Let’s face it most of us don't enjoy visiting the dentist, and it's often a relief when that six monthly visit is over. While most of us will simply get on with booking an appointment, around 5 to
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DMD VS DDS: What's The Difference?

Your local dentist may be a DDS or a DMD. Did you ever wonder what the difference was? Dentists wonder too! The acronym DDS stands for Doctor of Dental Surgery where DMD stands for Doctor of Dental
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Debunking 5 Common Dental Myths

While dental care is something that we all must do, there are a lot of myths that have formed around it. Poor dental care can lead to a large number of health issues, yet dental care itself is often
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The Paperless Dental Office

Okay, a lady never reveals her age, but I can tell you that when I started in dentistry, you could trade chickens for your dental work and Highlights magazine was a new publication. Remember the
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Is an Electric Toothbrush worth it?

Who wants to spend more time in the dental chair than they have to? That’s why preventive dental care is so important. If you don’t care for your teeth and gums now, you could pay for it later with
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Dental Implants

There are several specialties in dentistry. One of these specialties is implantology. Implant dentists replace people's broken, decayed, or missing teeth with permanent artificial ones. Not all
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What Is A Dental Bridge

Dental bridges are used to bridge the gap caused by a missing tooth or multiple teeth. A dental bridge consists of a false tooth (called a pontic) fixed between two crowns. These two crowns will be
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All about periodontal disease

According to the National Institutes of Health, 80% of adults in the United States are affected by some form of periodontal disease. Most people don't even realize they have this problem, dismissing
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How To Brush And Floss Properly

We have all heard it before, but I cannot express the importance of proper brushing technique and regular dental checkups. Periodontal disease has now been connected to heart disease and other major
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Dental Tattoos - Teeth Tattoos

Another teen trend looms on the horizon - dental tattoos. Tooth tattoos are growing in popularity in India and parts of Europe and may soon become the latest way to express individuality.
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What Is Laser Teeth Whitening?

In today's society, whitening your teeth is a very popular cosmetic procedure that is non-invasive and creates a beautiful white smile that is very attractive.
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Teeth Staining and Teeth Whitening

One of the most common reasons people choose teeth whitening is for the removal of stains. Stains on teeth occur over time from exposure to certain food particles, liquids as well as due to aging
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Preventive Care: Dental Sealants

Dental sealants offer a simple, but generally effective preventive solution to the problem of tooth decay occurring on the biting surfaces of back teeth. These sinuous biting surfaces represent the
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Tooth Decay - How It All Happens

The mouth contains bacteria that require food in order to survive and multiply. Eating foods that contain sugar and carbohydrates can prompt the bacteria to produce acids that attack the tooth
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Teeth Whitening at a glance

Teeth whitening. Everyone is doing it. At the mall, with over the counter strips and on cruise ships. You can purchase whitening toothpaste, mouthwash and gum! I'm not a dentist, I'm a just another
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What is a deep cleaning or scaling?

Don’t be worried, this is a wonderful thing your dental office is doing for you by giving you the treatment that will really benefit your oral and overall health. When a hygienist does a regular
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Benefits of Getting Dental Implants

Many people cringe at the idea of getting dental implants. In the first place, it's difficult to envision losing a tooth even for a short period of time and putting in a replacement. It's also hard
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Brighten Your Smile with Dental Veneers

Few of us are luckily enough to have a natural film star smile with perfectly straight, gleemingly white teeth. Even if we start out with good teeth, the years can take their toll with staining,
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