Why January is the Best Time to Schedule Your Next Dental Appointment

From Halloween through the New Year, many Americans live a life of abundance, sugar abundance that is.

The average American consumes over 150 pounds of sugar each year with more than half of that being consumed between Halloween and the New Year.

When broken down into daily intake, the average American eats 47 teaspoons of sugar per day.

With all of the Halloween cookies and candies, Thanksgiving feasts and days of leftovers and numerous Christmas gatherings, we are bombarding our teeth with sugar during a small three month window.

Happy New Year! Here Are 5 Dental Care Resolutions You Should Make

The New Year is a time when many people decide to make positive healthy changes in their lives. While many people focus on losing weight, making advances in their careers, or becoming kinder people, many of us neglect to make a change in an area of our life most in need of improvement.

Creating new habits regarding your dental health can positively impact your health, pocketbook and self concept.

The impact can be great, but the changes require very little effort.

Here are 5 simple resolutions you can make to improve the health of your teeth: 

Should I Brush After Every Meal Or Is Twice A Day Enough?

In order to accurately answer this question, let’s take a look at what happens inside your mouth throughout the day.

There is always at least some “bad bacteria” in your mouth. Whenever you eat a meal or snack during the day that contains sugar, that bacteria use the sugar in the food to make and release acids into your mouth. 

Give Your Teeth a Holiday Gift by Brushing for Two Minutes

Most dentists agree that in order to brush your teeth properly, you need to brush your teeth for at least two minutes.

The best use of that time can be spent by dividing the time evenly between your top teeth and your bottom teeth.

If you had One Thing to Use to Clean Your Teeth, What Would it be?

What if you found yourself without a toothbrush? What would you do? How would you keep your teeth clean?

While brushing your teeth with a toothbrush is by far the most efficient way of removing plaque and harmful bacteria, in a pinch, there are other tools you can use that will do a decent job of protecting your teeth against cavities, gingivitis and bad breath.

The main action of a toothbrush is scrubbing, using a bit of friction. The toothbrush uses strong, yet flexible bristles to scrub your teeth, removing the plaque and bacteria from the surfaces of your teeth and between your teeth. 

Is Using a Water Pick as Effective as Using Floss?

We all know to expect three tools will be used in our mouths when we go to the dentist: the toothbrush, the water pick and floss.

Of these three tools, flossing seems to be the one we dislike the most. Many find flossing daily to be a difficult habit to put into practice. There’s something about flossing that many find gross, taxing and downright impossible to make time for.

Halloween Candy Tooth Tips: You’re Not a Kid Anymore

The four weeks leading up to Halloween can do a number on our diets and can make it nearly impossible to go anywhere without being accosted by a big, fat bowl of colorfully wrapped cavity producers.

Simply leaving your desk at work to make your way to the watercooler can seem scary. Around every corner looms yet another bowl beckoning you to “Eat just one.”

While getting older has taught us a thing or two about sugar and cavities, we still can become prey to those enticing treats.