Dentistry

I wanted to take a second and share my weekend with you.

Reasons To Have Your Old Amalgam Fillings Replaced With Natural-Looking Composite Fillings

If your mouth is still full of those old, metallic fillings that were inserted into your teeth years ago, then you may want to consider making the switch to more natural-looking composite fillings. It's been shown in studies the average life of a metal filling is 8-15 years. If your fillings are older than 15 years, you may want to consider having them updated. Here are some great reasons to upgrade your old amalgam fillings:

1. Hidden Decay

Today, I went to the dentist to update my fillings. I need to admit, I had a horrible love with candy during my teen years, which led to having many fillings completed in my adolescent years. (Being in the dental office so much interested me in becoming one - so its not all bad!) What got me was braces, braces and candy don't mix. You can't floss very easily with braces, so I decided brushing would be enough. In college, some of these metal fillings had cracked and needed to be replaced. So in college, I had another round of metal fillings.

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Cigarette Health Warnings

Beginning September 2012, FDA will require larger, more prominent cigarette health warnings on all cigarette packaging and advertisements in the United States. These warnings mark the first change in cigarette warnings in more than 25 years and are a significant advancement in communicating the dangers of smoking. Effects of smoking on your teeth is one of the warnings.

We are now onboard with smartphones and QR Codes! Just take your smartphone, open a QR Code app and take a picture of any QR Code to reveal what it says! Maybe a smartphone app in the future!

We are now selling Oral B's best electric toothbrush.

Oral-B's most technologically advanced toothbrush, ProfessionalCare SmartSeries 5000 with SmartGuide provides Oral-B's most advanced cleaning technology for ultimate plaque removal and also features a wireless SmartGuide.

Dentists, like all people, have the world at their fingertips with the internet. Today, more than ever, people are relying on the internet for many different things. You can do just about anything you want on the internet. I wanted to share with you how the internet is helping dentist help you with your treatment. There are several ways the internet is helping dentist to stay up to date.

Practicing dentistry in 2011 is not like 5-10 years ago. The presence and focus of online reviews and review dedicated websites, leaves the door wide open for people to say anything they want about you or your practice to the whole word instantly.

However, when you own the dental practice, there is a fine line between the practice review and/or it being considered a personal attack on you.

Its my belief, that every time I sit down with a new patient, I know in the back of my mind a few things:

Most of us are familiar with cancer. Its crossed our path in one way or another during our lifetime. We don't necessarily know why we get it but unfortunately it happens.

We don't know why we get it but we do know how. Cancer (all forms) is mainly caused by problems with cell replication. Daily our cells which form our tissues undergo death and replication which is all a very complex process involving many stages that have to work precisely. Tissues with higher than normal replication cycles include but are not limited to: skin, breast, GI tract, genital, oral.