by shoffortho | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, Dental Posts, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
CENTURIES AGO, PEOPLE didn’t have many options for how to keep their teeth clean. Some cultures used chewing sticks and early toothbrushes had bristles made of horse hair. These days, we have a wide range of options for what tools to use for cleaning our teeth. How...
by shoffortho | Sep 9, 2020 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
WE ALL KNOW that medications can have side effects. If you tried, you could probably hear the voice in pharmaceutical commercials rattling off some of the most common ones in your head. We bring it up because those side effects often include oral health problems....
by shoffortho | Sep 2, 2020 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho
AN ESTIMATED 23 MILLION Americans have none of their teeth left, and another 12 million are missing all the teeth of one arch. As dental health professionals, we do our part to help those numbers go down, but that’s still quite a few people who need replacement teeth....
by shoffortho | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Dental Posts, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
TOOTH ENAMEL RANKS between steel and titanium on the Mohs Hardness Scale. That makes it harder than any other substance in the human body, and it also makes it harder than iron! However, it’s still fairly brittle and very vulnerable to acid erosion, and there are...
by shoffortho | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
AN IMPORTANT PART of keeping your teeth and gums healthy is your toothbrush. That might seem so obvious that it’s not worth saying, but you’d be surprised how many basic mistakes people make when it comes to their toothbrushes. We want to make sure our patients will...
by shoffortho | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho
FEW THINGS ARE WORSE at a first date or a job interview than the sudden awareness that bad breath might have ruined your first impression. No matter what else goes right, if the date or potential employer has a nose full of funky smells, it probably isn’t going to end...
