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Dental Resolutions You Should make for 2024

Dental Resolutions You Should make for 2024

Happy New Year everyone! In light of new beginnings, here are a few good dental hygiene habits to start practicing this year. As you celebrate the New Year, make your teeth happy too - welcome 2023 with the biggest smile.  Pay attention to your toothbrush  A...

5 Crummy Dental Habits to leave behind in 2023

5 Crummy Dental Habits to leave behind in 2023

We cannot wait to leave 2023 behind- and in all likeliness, you feel the same way. This year we learned the importance of taking care of your health, and oral health is huge, albeit often looked over, part of your general wellbeing. Read along to know what dental...

Planning to get pregnant? Get a pre-pregnancy dental checkup

Planning to get pregnant? Get a pre-pregnancy dental checkup

Making a baby is a lot of fun, but pregnancy is no piece of cake. Creating and nurturing a baby takes a toll on all of a women’s bodily systems. Therefore, making sure that all your systems are running smoothly not just during, but before your pregnancy is very...

Is your child scared of dental treatments?

Is your child scared of dental treatments?

Making your kids brush is difficult enough, but taking them for dental treatments is another story. Shouting, screaming along with a lot of waterworks are usually expected. But fear not! All your child’s dental appointments do not have to go like this. There are a lot...

Common brushing mistakes you tend to make

Common brushing mistakes you tend to make

Brushing our teeth is the first thing we do in the morning and the last thing we do before going to bed at night. Since brushing is the foundation of a good oral hygiene routine, an average person spends around 82 days brushing teeth, in their lifetime. Not to mention...

Dental care for cancer patients

Dental care for cancer patients

Oral cancer requires surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of all 3 to treat it. Surgery removes the local malignancy, chemotherapy uses medicines, and radiation therapy uses high-level radiations to destroy cancer cells. All 3 of these methods,...

How can you get rid of your baby’s thumb sucking habit?

How can you get rid of your baby’s thumb sucking habit?

Your baby happily sucked his/her thumb whenever they were fussy, hungry, sleepy or even bored. The same thumb sucking that looked cute on your 4 month old baby doesn’t look so good on your now 4 year old child. Dentists say thumb sucking up to 4-5 years of age is...

Teething tot? Help your baby with their teething troubles

Teething tot? Help your baby with their teething troubles

Is your baby irritable through the day and crying at night? Is your baby trying to bite things more than usual? Then your baby could be teething.  When does a baby start teething? Your baby’s first tooth will start to appear around 4-7 months ,and they will have a...

Teaching your kids to brush

Teaching your kids to brush

Every parent wants their kids to have good oral hygiene, but sometimes teaching your kids to brush and following the ideal dental care routine for children could be challenging. This is because kids find brushing their teeth to be boring, annoying, or even painful....

Know what food is good for your teeth

Know what food is good for your teeth

Food not only gives us energy but it satisfies our taste buds and nourishes our soul. But starchy sugary foods put our bodies at risk for diseases and invite bacteria to come and harm our teeth. Here are some of the best foods to keep your teeth and gums healthy and...

Food you must avoid to prevent bad breath

Food you must avoid to prevent bad breath

People suffering from bad breath have to go the extra mile to always keep some kind of aid to save themselves from embarrassment like mouth sprays and mints. However, going the extra mile can be in the form of making efforts to improve your oral hygiene as well. It is...

Ideal time to use a mouthwash

Ideal time to use a mouthwash

How long should you be using a mouthwash? Mouthwash before brushing or after brushing? Which time of the day is best to use a mouthwash? Why are you not able to get rid of your bad breath despite using a mouthwash daily? These are some common questions that you think...

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