6 Ways to Prevent Tooth Decay Dentists love telling their patients that prevention is better than a cure. It’s slightly annoying, but they are very much in the right. Taking proper care of your oral health now will definitely help prevent tooth decay, which can lead to a lot of other problems that are not only inconvenient and uncomfortable, but…
Do You Have Malocclusion? Malocclusion is a misalignment of the teeth problem that can lead to serious oral health complications. Malocclusion can mean crowded teeth, crossbite, overbite, underbite or open bite. These issues can prohibit your teeth from performing vital functions and seriously affect your overall oral and digestive health.
Killer Tips for a Killer Smile Everybody wants a killer smile. Some people are even ready and willing to undergo oral surgery and cosmetic dentistry to achieve this goal. However, you can get a killer smile without resorting to drastic and expensive treatments. Here are some of our killer tips for a great smile.
Pregnancy and Your Teeth Swollen ankles, mood swings, stretch marks, back pain. And we’ve only just scratched the surface. That’s right, as well as a bevy of inconvenient and sometimes horrifying symptoms that you get to experience during the course of your pregnancy, you also get to deal with odd changes to your teeth and oral health.
Your Medication and Dental Treatment- What You Should Know! We don’t always think about the link between the medication we take and the dental treatments we seek. However unconnected they seem, it is important to keep in mind that your medications can affect your dental treatment, and your dental treatment can affect your medications.
Dental Medical Management Plan for the Elderly Even though Medicare is great for Australians, it often falls behind when it comes to dental care. The elderly can face quite serious issues with their teeth, especially as they approach their seventies and eighties. As you age, it’s important to have a dental plan in place that is incorporated into your overall…
When Exactly is the Best Time to Brush Your Teeth? When it comes to brushing your teeth, we all know that we should do so at least twice a day. But when exactly are the best times to brush your teeth? Right when you wake up? After breakfast? Right before bed?
Bad Breath- How to Eliminate it? If you’ve suddenly started noticing that people tend not to get too close to you while you’re talking, if your partner is pulling away early from your kisses, or if you can just smell it, you might be experiencing bad breath. This is an embarrassing situation that no one wants to go through, so…
Review- Toothbrush, Floss and Mouthwash Having good daily oral hygiene is very important if you want to spare yourself a lot of pain and money. Flossing, brushing and using mouthwash everyday are your biggest hopes of avoiding tooth decay, gingivitis, gum disease and other painful and expensive problems. Despite the fact that these are activities we do (or should be…
A Brief History of Dentistry With all of the advancements that dentistry has made, it’s hard for us to think about what dentistry must have been like before it became modernised. How did people take care of their teeth hundreds of years ago? Whom did they call if they had a toothache?
