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All About Teeth Dental Clinic provides patients with the care and treatment they need in order to have a healthy, beautiful smile. There are many ways to maintain proper oral hygiene and dental health. If you want to increase the odds of keeping your teeth for life read this blog for more healthy tips.
Facts About the Dental Implant Recovery Process
If you are missing one or more teeth, a dental implant can fully restore your smile and your abilities to speak and chew normally. Once your dentist has surgically implanted one or more titanium cylinders into your jawbone, your mouth will have the secure points of...
The Effects of Cigarettes on Your Teeth
Let us begin by making an uncontroversial statement: cigarettes are bad for your health. Smoking is harmful to virtually every organ in your body, including your heart, lungs, bones, bladder and stomach. But we are All About Teeth, so we will stay true to our name by...
What Are the Symptoms of TMJ? And What Treatments Are There?
Jaw pain. Headaches. Earaches. These are just some of the more common symptoms of TMJ disorder (which is frequently referred to simply as TMJ). TMJ is common. Between 5 and 12% of Americans have it at any given time. It is more prevalent in people between the ages of...
5 Reasons to Use Your Dental Benefits Before the End of the Year
It's the end of the year! You're probably going to spend a whole lot of time planning for and celebrating Christmas – the best holiday of the year, despite what the Halloween-lovers claim. But before you get too wrapped up in cookie recipes and gift wrapping, take a...
How to Conquer Your Fear When Visiting a Dentist
Dental anxiety. It is fear or stress associated with dental settings, and it is estimated to affect over one-third of Americans. The prevalence of dental anxiety is perfectly understandable. Drills and needles, though extremely helpful objects in their own rights, can...
Why Dental Cleanings Are Essential
The Pacific cleaner shrimp makes its living by giving out free dental cleanings. The colorful tropical decapod waits on a coral reef until a fish swims up close and opens its mouth. The shrimp takes this as its cue to go inside the fish's mouth where it cleans off...
What to Expect With Root Canal Therapy
Root canal therapy was first performed during the mid-1800s. The tools originally used during the procedure were made out of watch springs, and whiskey was the most popular anesthesia during that time. Needless to say, receiving root canal therapy was not very...
Porcelain Veneers vs. Composite Veneers
Which Is Right for You? The history of modern cosmetic dentistry officially began in 1895. That is when Newell Sill Jenkins founded the company that made Jenkins Porcelain Enamel. With this revolutionary product dentists could permanently cement porcelain inlays,...
How Does Sugar Affect Your Teeth?
Many of your mother's warnings were not founded on good science. Sitting too close to the TV will not damage your eyes, for example, and swimming on a full stomach is no more dangerous than swimming on empty. But your mom wasn't completely mistaken about everything....
April Is Oral Cancer Awareness Month
The American Cancer Society estimates there will be approximately 54,000 new cases of oral cancer (or oropharyngeal cancer, occurring in the middle part of the throat) in 2022. The health organization also estimates 11,230 deaths resulting from the condition during...