Keep Your Smile Summer-Ready: Oral Health Tips for a Memorable Season

As the warm weather rolls in and vacation plans come to fruition, it’s essential to remember that maintaining good oral health should be a part of your summer checklist. While summer brings an abundance of outdoor fun and indulgences, it’s important not to neglect your smile. In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of […]

Your Prescriptions and Your Oral Health

MOST MEDICATIONS come with a list of possible side effects, some of which effects that impact your oral health. Even when medications have nothing to do with your teeth or gums, these side effects are common, so it’s helpful to know what you can do to balance necessary medications with maintaining a healthy smile. Oral […]

Can How We Breathe Affect Our Teeth?

Thanks to the influence of the show Stranger Things. You may have heard the insult “mouth-breather.” If possible, avoid mouth breathing and breath through your nose. Consider mouth breathing a backup plan, not our primary way of breathing. Mouth breathing has adverse health effects in short and the long term. The Short-Term Effects of Mouth […]

Never Forget That Teeth Are Not Tools

TEETH have many uses, from helping us speak clearly and chew our food, to forming the structure of our faces. Teeth also make up our smiles! These are the uses our teeth are for, but when we use them as tools for other jobs, we risk causing severe damage to them. Teeth Do Not Make […]

The Short and Sweet of Oral Health

There are many names for sugar which makes it easy to hide where we’d least expect it. Molasses and maltose? Sugar. Corn syrup and sucrose? Sugar. Honey and agave nectar? They’re sugar too! We Consume a Jaw-Dropping Amount of Sugar Sugar is added to 74 percent of packaged foods, and the average American consumes 57 […]