Five Ways to Help you Brush Better and Easier

These are just a few tricks and tips to improve the way you clean your teeth. The more you know and practice, the better you'll get!
  These are a few tricks and tips to improve the way you clean your teeth. The more you know and practice, the better you'll get at it!!!      #1 Close your mouth to get to the back teeth.  Although this may sound counterproductive, when you open wide, you will contract the muscle  in your cheek that sits along your back teeth. If you close down slightly and relax that muscle, you can actually allow the toothbrush to reach those...
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The Benefits of Orthodontic Care

By improving your smile, an enhanced appearance will can boost the confidence that you have in yourself. This provides you with benefits that are both social and psychological. This is especially important for teenagers, where acceptance from peer plays an important part in development. While these benefits might only seem cosmetic on the surface, in reality they have benefits in personal and business life.

     While the costs of orthodontic care typically are not prohibitive, they are certainly nothing to scoff at. Neither is the amount of time and effort that goes into it. With all this is mind, it is obviously important to understand the benefits of orthodontic care so that you understand why it is worth the investment of time, money and energy.      The most obvious benefit is the fact that it straightens your teeth out. By straightening out your...
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Dental Implant Maintenance

As dental clinicians, how does one choose from among the many options available which dental implant maintenance techniques to use and what evidence-based research to believe? Likewise, which is the best protocol for implant therapy? Michelle Strange, RDH, MSDH, explains how she sorts through the enormous amounts of information. 

By B. Michelle Strange, RDH, MSDH  Originally published in Perio-Implant Advisory As dental clinicians, we have a responsibility to get through each day doing what's right for our patients and practicing the best standard of care we can. While that sounds ideal, we all know that sometimes it's a struggle. We learn these best practices in dentistry in a variety of ways—by reading articles, attending meetings, continuing education courses, and having conversations with colleagues—but how do we choose from the many options; WHO...
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