Dental Sensitivity

If hot or cold foods make you wince, you may have a common dental problem—sensitive teeth. Sensitivity in your teeth can happen for several reasons, including:

tooth decay (cavities) fractured teeth worn fillings gum disease worn tooth enamel exposed tooth root

Sensitive teeth can be treated. Your dentist may recommend desensitizing toothpaste or an alternative treatment based on the cause of your sensitivity. Proper oral hygiene is the key to preventing sensitive-tooth pain. Ask your dentist if you have any questions about your daily oral hygiene routine or concerns about tooth sensitivity.

Tooth Whitening Is Not Equal to Tooth Brushing

Today's tooth whitening products are capable of giving you a beautiful white smile. However, tooth whitening is not equal to tooth brushing. Learn how brushing your teeth twice a day helps remove food particles and plaque that can cause tooth decay. Be sure to schedule regular visits with your dentist to keep a healthy smile for a lifetime. Check out this video from American Dental Association:

Dental Creations of Daytona is a dental practice devoted to restoring and enhancing the natural beauty of your smile using conservative, state-of-the-art procedures that will result in beautiful, long lasting smiles! Call us today at 386-274-1450.

Dental Creations introduces Onpharma

Dental Creations of Daytona Beach is excited to introduces Onpharma to our clients. Its a buffering system to our local anesthetic. It gets patients number faster and with less sting by taking the acidity out of the anesthetic. Onset by Onpharma raises the pH of local anesthetic resulting in a six thousand fold increase in the amount of anesthetic that can cross the nerve membrane at the time of injection. We take pride in doing whatever we can to take the pain out of all procedures and we are excited to add Onpharma to our arsenal!

 

Bad Dental Habits That Can Ruin Teeth

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It is not only sugar and carbonated drinks that ruin teeth. There are several other habits that you and your child should avoid, for the sake of beautiful, straight and healthy pearly whites.

Thumb sucking – a big no-no!

If your child is sucking on his/her thumb right after the permanent teeth have started to show up, with this bad habit they might easily develop misaligned teeth. It is not unusual that children of 6 years or even older ones cannot give up on the thumb sucking habit.

With this bad habit, it is not only the teeth that will have to suffer, but also the jaw structure can be modified. Therefore, make sure to help your little one get rid of the nasty habit.

Read full article from Dental Health Magazine

Flossing 101

According to the recent article in Huffington Post, the standard answer to what kind of floss is the best to use is "whichever you use daily"

To begin, let's quickly go over that "what and why" of flossing: Flossing is running a piece of floss (which resembles thread or string) between your teeth. It cleans away plaque that your toothbrush will miss, and is a very essential part of good oral health. In fact, if you only brush and do not floss, you're only really doing half the job. So flossing daily is something everyone should do.

Read full article from Huffington Post here