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60How 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 comments61How 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 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 comments65A New Way To Protect Your Child's Teeth From Decay
A spoonful of sugar may indeed help the medicine go down but it seems that the sugar substitute, xylitol, has medicinal properties of its own. Recent research has shown that a few drops of xylitol, given as a...
0 comments67Why Does My Dentist Need to Know About My Suppository?
People sometimes think the dentist is prying when asked what medication they are taking – ‘Yes I’m on tablets but they’re nothing to do with my mouth so you don’t need to know.’ Not true. ...
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 comments67Tooth Erosion - Do Not Use Antacids
Following my article about tooth abrasion and acid erosion http://hubpages.com/hub/Are-These-Destroying-Your-Teeth a few patients have told me that they regularly chew an antacid such as Rennie or...
0 comments67Erosion 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 comments57Don'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 comments69Travel Sickness - Don't Let It Ruin Your Trip
Motion sickness is incredibly common. There are no reliably accurate statistics but it is estimated that, in the UK, a third of the population is affected to some degree. The symptoms include, drowsiness,...
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