You might not feel like you know exactly what to do about certain dental care products as you scan the collection you’ve gathered in your bathroom. For instance, you really love your most recent toothbrush and you ask yourself whether you should just keep it until it’s technically falling apart. You may wonder about the… Read more »
Category: Good Hygiene
Important Reminders About Caring For Your Tongue!
You may spend some serious time and effort keeping your smile safe by caring for your teeth and caring for your gums. However, when it comes to your tongue, this part of your oral health may be something you tend to overlook or forget about. Does it require a whole lot of attention? Nope! This… Read more »
Tooth Decay: Proactive Tips For Prevention
You don’t necessarily always feel like doing what it takes to prevent cavities. However, when you realize that tooth decay will cause you to require a dental filling or a crown, that overlooked decay can really damage your tooth and lead to infection, and that keeping decay from forming is actually very simple, well …… Read more »
Bad Breath: 3 Things You Are Missing
It’s not just a little bit embarrassing to deal with bad breath. Instead, it can be an overwhelming problem in your life that causes you to feel that when you speak, you have to cover your mouth with your hand or that you need to try to distance yourself from others. Since this added stress… Read more »
Reminders: Why Skipping Flossing Is So Dangerous!
Guess what? Skipping the flossing part of your dental hygiene isn’t just something that you feel guilty about because you realize you should be doing it and then leave it at that. Instead, it’s something that can have an actual, serious effect on the health of your smile. Did you know that even if you’re doing… Read more »
Dental Care: For Today, Every Year, And More
We like to review your dental care with you to help you put things into easy to digest categories. The easier it is to create structure associated with your smile, the easier it can be to keep up with the different areas of care that you need (and that you might want). While different personalities… Read more »
Reasons You’re Brushing Far Too Hard (And How Not To)
You may already know that when you’re brushing too hard, you’re doing a disservice to your oral health. Overly aggressive brushing is an issue that can cause multiple problems for your smile, including the breakdown of your tooth’s outer, protective layer that we know as enamel, in addition to receding gums. The bigger problem here,… Read more »
A Very Healthy Smile: The Preparatory Steps You Need!
When what you want is a very healthy smile, which is usually what all of our Silver City, NM patients want, there’s not really any uncertainty about what you need to do. That is, there’s no wiggle room regarding the particulars. There very well may be some uncertainty on your side of things if you… Read more »
Let’s Do A Little Pre-Holiday Hygiene Review
As you prepare to gather around a table to dig into whatever delightful meal you pull together in honor of Thanksgiving, there’s one very important detail on our Silver City, NM team’s minds: Are you sure you’re going to remember to include your smile care in this holiday and those that follow? Just to be… Read more »
Thanksgiving: 3 Easy Tips To Safeguard Your Smile!
You might figure that since Thanksgiving is so highly focused on the extraordinary food experience that takes place each year, you should probably not even try to worry about your oral health. After all, how can you manage balancing your smile protection with simply digging into the dinner you’re about to truly enjoy? The wonderful… Read more »