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Nail-biting is a common habit. A majority of kids chew their fingernails at least at some point during their childhood, and teens and adult frequently continue the habit. Like most nervous habits, nail-biting typically becomes a subconscious practice that surfaces most when you feel stressed in some way: hunger, boredom, frustration, complexity, etc.
When you think of oral health, it’s really easy to focus on teeth almost exclusively and forget that there are other important players in your overall mouth health. One of the other key influencers of oral health is your tongue. In this post, we’re going to talk about how taking care of your tongue can help eliminate or prevent bad breath.
Flossing is basically no one’s favorite activity. But some oral health professionals would argue that it’s even more important than brushing your teeth. If it’s that important, then the stakes are pretty high. Flossing is a non-negotiable for healthy teeth in the long run. In this post, we want to offer you some encouragement to help you prioritize flossing.
Dentists talk a lot about caring for enamel, protecting your child’s enamel, etc. but what exactly is tooth enamel? Good question. The long answer is found in journal articles full of chemical formulas that would make your eyes glaze over, so we’re going to try to go with the short answer here. Enamel is a mineral compound. I know, I know. What does that mean? I mean, what are minerals? (Can you begin to see why this is journal article material?) OK. So let’s try this again: enamel is basically a complex form of calcium called hydroxyapatite.
You’ve seen the charts and book illustrations, right? Little diagrams that have the cross-section of a tooth, with all the different parts of the tooth labeled. It’s all so simple and self-explanatory when you see it there. Of course the “root” is what the bottom part of the tooth is called, and yeah, those pinkish-red things are called gums. We know this. And the top part is called the “crown,” because crowns go on top of things. So why would we take time to talk about the parts of a tooth in a blog post like this? Because teeth are actually pretty cool and surprisingly complex. Pardon the pun, but there’s more to them than meets the eye, and we want you to know more about your amazing teeth so you’ll enjoy caring for them more! We’re going to talk about the tooth from the crown to the root.
Children’s Dental Center: our name says it all! We are all about children, and we have more than twenty years of experience in helping kids have their best dental experience. Through the years, we have put time-tested dental research into practice in order to develop a high degree of specialization and expertise in taking care of our patients. Everything we do here is geared towards providing children with the top quality care they deserve, delivered in an atmosphere that they can enjoy. We want you as a parent to know the steps that we take to give your child the best dental experience!
A lot of parents don’t know the answer to this question. Why do your child’s cavities need to be treated if the baby teeth are going to fall out anyway? There are several important reasons your children’s cavities should not go untreated!
At our three CDC locations, we are always finding ways to help kids have a great dental experience. Here are some things that our patients have said they love about us!
Have you ever been told your child has multiple cavities only to be told at a second opinion that there’s actually only one cavity? Frustrating, right? As parents, we want our child to have less cavities, so it often makes no sense to us why dentists come to different conclusions. So who’s right?