Ways To Boost Your Diet To Enhance Your Oral Health
Your food choices have far-reaching implications for your oral and whole-body health. We’ve all been cautioned about the risks to our oral health from consuming too much sugar and acidic foods, but some foods can actually benefit it! While you’re considering changes to your diet to prevent osteoporosis, heart disease, IBS, and diabetes, give your […]
Using Probiotics To Help Enhance And Protect Your Dental Health
Probiotics have been a hot topic in health and medicine circles in recent years. As our understanding of them increases, we continue to find additional ways they can benefit our bodies and our health. One recent body of evidence suggests that taking oral probiotics may actually be of benefit to our oral health and serve […]
How Childhood Obesity Influences Dental Health
Obesity has been emphasized across our healthcare industry as a highly prevalent issue for today’s generation. Being overweight or obese has been shown to lead to numerous health issues later on in life, increasing the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. For our oral health, being overweight can impact our teeth and gums, […]
Why Vaccinations Are Just As Important For Teenagers
Childhood immunizations often present parents with an illusion that they’re protected from diseases later in life once their child’s vaccinated. However, childhood vaccines need constant revisiting to protect against diseases that mutate and adapt to various environmental changes. Preteens and teenagers should continue to get vaccinations for many essential reasons, but both parents and teenagers […]
How Thumb Sucking Can Harm Your Child’s Teeth
For children between the ages of 6 months to 4 years old, they may have a thumb sucking period as their primary baby teeth begin to appear. Thumb sucking during this time is considered a normal habit, but it should be limited by the time their teeth appear. Beyond this point, thumb sucking can potentially […]
The Potential Risk of Getting Cavities From Black Mold
For children, sugary food is often the main culprits for cavities, and thanks to many parents and their proactive choices, the average percentage of children’s cavities has been decreasing overtime! According to the CDC, only 16% of children between ages 5 to 19 years old have untreated cavities. But even while that percentage continues to […]
Is Swimming Dangerous To Your Child’s Teeth?
Swimming is one of those sports that don’t make dentists cringe when you bring them up, but that doesn’t mean it’s free from oral health risks. A little known fact is too much time spent swimming in a chlorinated pool or in the ocean can pose certain risks to your oral health. If your children […]
Learn How Parents Can Help Your Children Prevent Tooth Decay
Setting good dental care habits is one of the most important things you can do for your child’s future oral health. Among all of your other responsibilities as a parent, it can be challenging to figure out how to provide them with the guidance they need. There are many questions to be answered, including when […]
How Silver Diamine Fluoride May Change Cavity Care
Silver diamine fluoride has revolutionized the ways that dentists can treat children’s teeth. Cavities present a serious problem among children throughout the US, with over 42% of children between ages 2 to 11 getting cavities at their primary baby teeth stage. Normally, dentists would use fluoride treatments to help prevent and treat cavities. Still, with […]
How Xylitol Can Benefit Your Child’s Oral Health
Childhood tooth decay is preventable with consistent oral care at home and getting them to their annual dental visits. However, some children are more susceptible to tooth decay than others. For those with sensitive teeth, xylitol has been recently identified as an ingredient that can help reduce tooth decay by the American Academy of Pediatric […]