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Does Your Diet Affect Your Oral Health?

Eating a healthy diet and avoiding candy and sugary drinks improves our oral health and our overall general health. What are the best foods and nutrients to eat or drink for optimal oral health? Dr. John Vitale: Well, the best…

The Best Habits for Good Oral Health

Maintaining proper oral health by brushing, flossing and visiting the dentist regularly is important to prevent tooth decay and gum disease. Eating a healthy diet, wearing a mouth guard during sports and avoiding bad habits such as chewing ice are…

Important Ways Diet Affects Our Oral Health

The most important way that diet affects your oral health is that the vitamins and minerals that a good diet provides nourish your teeth and your gums. Ingesting good foods in balance provides you with all these nutrients to keep…

Diet and Oral Health

Your diet directly affects your oral health. Eating foods rich in calcium, iron and B vitamins will help your teeth stay strong and keep your gums healthy. Avoiding sticky, sugary foods, sports drinks and soda are all easy ways to…

5 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Smile for Life

Follow these 5 rules to maintain a healthy smile for life: Visit your dentist twice a year. Brush and floss daily. Don’t go to bed without brushing your teeth and use fluoride toothpaste. Eat a healthy diet. Include crunchy vegetables…

Maintain a Healthy Smile for Life

Taking care of your teeth now can ensure that you have a health smile for life. Visiting the dentist on a regular basis to get your teeth and gums examined is a critical step in identifying and preventing any potential issues. Prevention…

Preventing Gum Disease

While some people are more at risk for developing gum disease than others, there are ways to help prevent it such as brushing, flossing, visiting the dentist on a regular basis and not smoking. What is gum disease, and what are the…

Ways to Ensure a Pain Free Dental Visit

There are some ways that a dentist and a patient can ensure a pain free dental visit. For the patient it’s simple, going to a dentist regularly and not waiting for a crisis. Again for patients, taking care of your…

Teeth Grinding Causes Gum Recession

Teeth grinding causes gum recession in two ways primarily. The first way that teeth grinding causes gum recession is that it damages your soft tissue. The second way is that it loosens teeth. When your teeth get loose, you develop…

Gum Disease Linked To Health Problems

Gum disease can be linked to some chronic health conditions. The biggest health problem that researchers and doctors have linked to gum disease is diabetes – both primary and secondary. Generally people with diabetes exhibit problems with gum disease both…

Does Your Diet Affect Your Oral Health?

The Best Habits for Good Oral Health

Important Ways Diet Affects Our Oral Health

Diet and Oral Health

5 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Smile for Life

Maintain a Healthy Smile for Life

Preventing Gum Disease

Ways to Ensure a Pain Free Dental Visit

Teeth Grinding Causes Gum Recession

Gum Disease Linked To Health Problems

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