1-10 of 14 hubssort by Hot Best Latest
68I'm Pregnant - Should My Gums Bleed?
Bleeding gums are so common during pregnancy that many people believe this is normal. It isn't. Pregnancy gingivitis is the same as any other gingivitis. Gums become red, swollen and tender because they...
0 comments71Dental Crowns - What Can They Do For Me?
A dental crown is a tooth-shaped "cap" that is placed over a tooth – covering the tooth to restore its shape and size. When cemented in place, a crown fully encases the portion of a tooth that lies above...
0 comments68Why Do My Gums Show So Much?
There are many possible reasons why your gums might show more than you would like and it's impossible to give specific advice without a thorough examination. In the meantime, you need to ask yourself the...
0 comments81What To Do IF A Tooth Gets Knocked Out
When I was dropping my son off at school this morning, a teacher ran up to tell me that a little girl had fallen in the playground and knocked out a front tooth. It turned out to be lucky I was there because...
1 comment86Dental Bridges - What can they do for Me?
A dental bridge is a way of replacing one or more missing teeth by permanently fixing the replacement tooth to one or more of your own standing teeth. As with most things, there’s more than one way of doing...
0 comments55Don't Believe the Ads
I'm sure you've seen that toothpaste ad on the telly where they put a blue light behind a model's front teeth. Surprise, surprise, the light shines through near the biting edge and we're led to believe that...
0 comments72How Long Do You Really Need to Brush Your Teeth?
Most people know that you are 'supposed' to brush your teeth for 2 minutes, but this seems such an arbitrary length of time that few of us bother to check how long we actually spend with our toothbrushes in...
0 comments64How To Brush Your Teeth The Right Way
I'm going to talk about using a manual brush today it is much harder to do a good job with a manual brush than when using an electric one. With an electric brush - either sonic or oscillatory - you just have...
0 comments63How To Floss Your Teeth The Right Way - And Keep Them For Life
Unless you have spaces between all of your teeth, there is no way a toothbrush can get at all the tooth surfaces where plaque accumulates. For that, you need either dental floss or interdental brushes -...
0 comments66Erosion and Abrasion - Are These Destroying Your Teeth?
Abrasion and erosion damage teeth in similar ways but they are separate conditions with different causes, and different measures are required to combat them. Abrasion is the physical wearing away of enamel,...
0 comments
