If you ask several people whether chewing gum is good for your health or detrimental to it, you are likely to get several different answers. This is because chewing gum is a mixed bag when it comes to your dental and overall health. In order to answer this important question, we’ll need to explore several different aspects of how chewing gum affects both your mouth and your body as a whole.
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Everyone knows regular dental appointments are important to dental health. But perhaps you haven’t really considered the many benefits to routine dental appointments, or the things you can do between appointments to help maintain good dental health and keep the dentist’s work – and your bills – to a minimum!
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There is a place in this world where sugar free candy and convections are the normal. This place is the country of Finland. Finland is the home of the researcher who determined that the naturally produced substance called xylitol from birth trees was both sweet and helped prevent tooth decay.
Posted · Author Dr. Bryan's Tooth Station
Sometimes at Halloween I asked my patients if they only had “sugar free candy”. I usually get a laugh from the parents as if I was talking about something as ridiculous as dehydrated water, a powder you just add water to get water.
Posted · Author Dr. Bryan's Tooth Station
When your child needs a filling, you may wonder whether the dentist will use metal amalgam or tooth-colored dental composite. At The Tooth Station, we only use composite to fill spots of decay on enamel. Our pediatric dentist and team made this decision for the following reasons
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Dental anxieties often develop in children after negative experiences or are inherited from equally anxious parents. At The Tooth Station, our goal is to make all patients feel as comfortable and safe as possible, which is why we take extra caution in describing dental care to our youngest visitors.
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There’s nothing wrong with an infant who sucks their thumbs, but continuing this habit into their toddler years creates a narrow palate, which also affects dental alignment, speech, and ability to properly chew. Ideally, speech should replace thumb sucking as a coping mechanism; instead of using this habit to feel better, kids should be able to express their feelings out loud, seeking a solution.
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As your infant’s primary teeth emerge, they experience teething discomfort. Babies usually begin teething at the age of six months, and for a new tooth to fully emerge it takes anywhere from one to seven days. These signs typically indicate of the start of your child’s teething period
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Cavities in young children are frequently the result of social-economic factors being the root cause. A very recent study appearing July 14, 2017 in the Journal of dental Research compared the following
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It is no surprise that the majority of toothbrushes sold today are manufactured in China. What may surprise one is that the first toothbrush was invented and made in China during the Tang Dynasty (619-907).
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