Halloween doesn’t have to be Hell for Teeth
Love it or hate, Halloween is fast approaching, and over the past few years things have changed. What used to be a low key event that was perhaps celebrated with a few children’s parties, or more grown-up affairs, is fast …
New Research Warns of the Dangers of High Acidity Drinks
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Recent research carried out in Australia has found popular drinks, including fruit juices, soft drinks and sports drinks can be a triple threat to teeth. The study centred on the way these drinks can affect children and …
Do You Share Your Toothbrush? Learn Why You Really Shouldn’t
Are you guilty of sharing your toothbrush with others? Apparently a considerable percentage of the population has admitted to this dental crime. A recent survey conducted as part of the National Smile Month found nearly 10% of us had shared …
Are Your Teeth Looking Their Best for National Smile Month?
It’s National Smile Month from 19th of May to 20th June, so is your smile looking its best? If not this could be the month to decide to make a change. National Smile Month has been running for 40 years …
Options for Replacing Lost Teeth
Although we’d all love to have our natural teeth for life, it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes teeth will be lost due to tooth decay or gum disease, or they can be knocked out in accidents, marring an …
What are the Quickest and Easiest Ways to Improve Your Smile?
With spring almost here, it is a great time to look at how to improve your smile, and there are lots of quick and easy cosmetic dentistry techniques that need not cost a lot of money.
Basic Everyday Hygiene
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Looking Long in the Tooth? Gum Recession and Its Effects on Your Teeth
Have you noticed you look a little longer in the tooth than you remember? If so then your gums have probably receded. This is the process whereby the gum margins pull away from the tooth, exposing more of the tooth …
Hate Exercising? Learn How It Could Help Your Gum Health
We are nearly a couple of weeks into the New Year, and while many of us will have started out with intentions to exercise more frequently and to eat healthy foods this resolve might have begun to wane. Most people …
Your Traditional Turkey Dinner Might be More Tooth Friendly than You Imagine
Come the 25th, a lot of people in the UK will sit down to a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings. It’s a meal that is almost guaranteed to blow the diet, but you might take comfort from knowing …
Nanodiamonds Could Put a Sparkle in Your Smile
Every girl knows diamonds are forever, and although they’re more traditionally used in jewellery than in teeth, a recent study has shown they could really put a sparkle in your smile. Researchers from the UCLA School of Dentistry in collaboration …
