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Practice Daily Hygiene to Avoid Gum Swelling While Wearing Braces

Straightening your smile doesn't happen overnight—it can involve months or even years of orthodontic treatment. And although the end result is well worth it, the long process can make it ...

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Help Your Child Develop Good Oral Habits and Avoid Bad Ones

We all have habits: things we do every day often without consciously thinking. Some of them are good; some not so much. And many of them took root in childhood.That's ...

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen: A Celebrity Couple's Secrets for a Beautiful Smile

Love at first sight—it's an endearing notion found in movies and novels, but perhaps we're a little skeptical about it happening in real life. Then again, maybe it does once ...

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Why the Ointment You're Using Could be Making Your Facial Rash Worse

The red, scaly rash suddenly appearing on your face doesn’t cause you much physical discomfort, but it’s still embarrassing. And to make matters worse treating it as you would other ...

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Take Steps to Reduce Mouth Acid and Avoid Dental Erosion

Your teeth’s hard, enamel coating protects them from environmental dangers or disease. But although it’s made of the hardest substance in the human body, the enamel isn’t invincible — prolonged ...

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Include Limitations on Sugar in Your Tooth Decay Prevention Strategy

We’ve waged war for decades against tooth decay through oral hygiene and the increasing use of fluoride, nature’s “super weapon” against this disease. And yet, tooth decay remains a significant ...

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Porcelain Veneers Transform Real Housewives Star's Smile Spoiled by Teeth Grinding

Dorit Kemsley isn't shy. Best known to fans as an outspoken and sometimes outrageous cast member of the reality show Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Kemsley is never reticent about ...

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3 Things You can do to Slow Tooth Wear

Unlike our primitive ancestors, our teeth have it relatively easy. Human diets today are much more refined than their counterparts from thousands of years ago. Ancient teeth recovered from those ...

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Put an End to Uncomfortable and Embarrassing Cracked Mouth Corners

We’ve all had physical ailments that were more irritating than serious. The problem of skin cracking at the corners of the mouth fits into that category.Both dentists and dermatologists encounter ...

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A Shingles Outbreak Could Interrupt Your Dental Care

A shingles outbreak can be painful and embarrassing. It could also interfere with many areas of your life—including your dental care.Known medically as herpes zoster, the shingle is a viral ...

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How Kathy Bates Retains Her Movie-Star Smile

In her decades-long career, renowned actress Kathy Bates has won Golden Globes, Emmys, and many other honors. Bates began acting in her twenties, but didn't achieve national recognition until she ...

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Diabetes Can Make Getting an Implant Difficult, But Not Impossible

Over 26 million Americans have diabetes, a systemic condition that interferes with maintaining safe levels of blood sugar in the bloodstream. Over time, diabetes can begin to interfere with other ...

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Exciting New Discovery Could Help in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

Like the rest of healthcare, antibiotics have transformed dentistry. Advanced oral infections that once eluded successful treatment are routinely stopped with the use of these “wonder drugs.” But their overuse ...

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You Can Obtain a 'Same Day' Implant Smile - Under the Right Conditions

Implants have come a long way since their introduction over thirty years ago. Besides a greater array of tooth sizes and shapes to match any situation, it’s now possible to ...

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What You Can Learn From Mayim Bialik About Children's Dental Care

After nine seasons as neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the hit comedy The Big Bang Theory, Mayim Bialik is back to the “career” she had before the series: stay-at-home mom. ...

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What Really Happens During a Root Canal Treatment

Bad news at your last dental visit: You have a decayed tooth. And not just in the enamel—the decay has invaded the tooth's inner pulp and the resulting infection is ...

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Give Your Child Added Protection Against Cavities With Topical Fluoride

Keeping your child’s teeth and gums healthy may sometimes seem like “one step forward, two steps back.” You do all the right things like daily brushing and flossing, and keeping ...

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Dental Implants Could be Your Best Option to Replace Lost Teeth

An estimated 35 million people in the United States are missing all of their teeth on at least one jaw. Your situation may not be as serious — perhaps you've ...

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You Can Have a Straighter Smile - Just Like the Queen of England

The monarchs of the world experience the same health issues as their subjects—but they often tend to be hush-hush about it. Recently, though, the normally reticent Queen Elizabeth II let ...

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4 Tips for Avoiding Dental Disease While Wearing Braces

Wearing braces takes time, but if all goes well the changes to your smile will be well worth it. In the meantime, though, you’ll have to contend with one particular ...

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Changing Antibiotic Use Today will Help Ensure Their Effectiveness Tomorrow

It’s hard to imagine, but little more than a century ago today’s “minor” bacterial and viral infections were often deadly. This changed with the advent of antibiotics, drugs that kill ...

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4 Do's and Don'ts to Keep Your Child's Teeth Healthy

Regular dental visits are essential for keeping your child's dental development on track. These semi-annual cleanings and checkups (beginning around their first birthday) can help your child avoid tooth decay ...

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Dental Magic Transforms Smiles

Magician Michel Grandinetti can levitate a 500-pound motorcycle, melt into a 7-foot-tall wall of solid steel, and make borrowed rings vanish and reappear baked inside bread. Yet the master illusionist ...

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Your Age Doesn't Have to Keep You from a Straighter Smile

Bite problems are quite common—as many as 75% of adults may have some form of orthodontic issue. Unfortunately, there's also something else just as common: that many people believe they're ...

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See Your Dentist to Find out the Real Cause for Your Tooth Pain

If you have tooth pain, we want to know about it. No, really—we want to know all about it. Is the pain sharp or dull? Is it emanating from one ...

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Cemented or Screwed: Which Implant Crown Attachment is Best for You?

In the realm of restorative dentistry, dental implants are king. A dental implant can replace a tooth with a permanent, life-like restoration with a solid reputation for durability.Implants are also ...

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Listen to Ellen DeGeneres: Don't Think You Can Get Away Without Flossing!

This year's Carol Burnett Award, presented at the Golden Globes, goes to Ellen DeGeneres for her “outstanding contributions to the television medium on or off the screen.” This is the ...

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Do You Have Adequate Bone to Support an Implant

Besides their life-likeness, implants are also prized for their high success rate. More than ninety-five percent of implants continue to function effectively after ten years.Implants’ advanced technology explains some of ...

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Dental Care Early in Life can Impact Oral Health in our Later Years

Our bodies are constantly changing as we age. Although the most rapid development occurs during childhood and adolescence, our bones, soft tissue, and bodily systems will continue to change, even ...

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Diabetes Doesn't Have to Stop You From Acquiring Dental Implants

One of the best and most successful tooth replacement choices available is the dental implant. No other restorative method is as similar in both form and function to a real ...

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NHL Iron Man Keith Yandle Suffers Dental Trauma on Ice

Professional Hockey player Keith Yandle is the current NHL “iron man”—that is, he has earned the distinction of playing in the most consecutive games. On November 23, Yandle was in ...

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Taking Care of Oral Health Crucial to Quality of Life for HIV Positive Patients

In the early Eighties, dentists began noticing symptoms among a few patients that indicated something far more serious. They were, in fact, among the first healthcare providers to recognize what ...

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Consider an Effective and Affordable RPD for Teeth Replacement

If you have a few missing teeth but can't afford dental implants or fixed bridgework, consider a removable partial denture (RPD). Although implants may be the superior choice aesthetically and ...

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Vaping Could Be Just as Harmful to Your Teeth and Gums as Smoking

The electronic cigarette (e-cig), the much-acclaimed smoking alternative, has recently been linked to hundreds of lung-related illnesses and deaths among otherwise healthy young adults. But dentists were actually among the ...

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Jamie Foxx Chips a Tooth - This Time by Accident!

Some people are lucky — they never seem to have a mishap, dental or otherwise. But for the rest of us, accidents just happen sometimes. Take actor Jamie Foxx, for ...

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3 Ways to Stop or Reduce Painful Tooth Sensitivity

Tooth sensitivity can be disheartening: you’re always on your guard with what you eat or drink, and perhaps you’ve even given up on favorite foods or beverages.The most common cause ...

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Good Reasons for Choosing Clear Aligners for Orthodontic Treatment

If your teenager is in need of orthodontic treatment, you might automatically think of braces. But while this decades-old appliance is quite effective, it isn’t the only “tooth movement” game ...

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The 3 Top Causes for Tooth Sensitivity

Like other living tissue, your teeth can feel. Dentin, the layer below the enamel, houses fluid-filled conduits that transmit temperature or pressure sensations to a nerve network within the tooth’s ...

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A Different Kind of "Chip Shot" for Pro Golfer Danielle Kang

While the sport of golf may not look too dangerous from the sidelines, players know it can sometimes lead to mishaps. There are accidents involving golf carts and clubs, painful ...