You go to the dentist and they ask you how you have been sleeping. A weird question to get asked at a dental office right? Actually, dentists are able to help tremendously in this area. You have to be thinking HOW is my dentist going to improve my sleep? We are able to offer an [...]
You more than likely have heard that exposure to any form of radiation is harmful for human beings. The truth is that radiation can affect the body in a number of ways – but it is also dependent on how much radiation you are being exposed to. In small amounts, radiation has been used in [...]
As a dentist his axiom “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” prove themselves to be spot on all of the time. Preventative dental care should be just that, preventative. Routine cleanings every six months are needed to stay on top of maintaining your oral health, but it’s not always just about [...]
Each time a child visits a dental office for a routine cleaning and check-up exam, they are also usually given a fluoride treatment. It is an important aspect of the exam because fluoride helps prevent tooth decay. Where fluoride often isn’t routine is in our drinking water. Majority of practicing dentists in Bryn Mawr would [...]
You might say laughter, but we actually crack that one in here at Dillon Family Dentistry. Sadly, what is all-too-often the case is that apparently other dentists aren’t always offering all of their patients all of the options for their unique situation and all of the possible treatment options. We take great solace and sanctuary [...]
Fluoride in the water? It’s elemental! Fluoride is part of the greatest public health initiative in history. The impact of the addition of a small amount of fluoride in municipal water supplies has been tremendous, exceeding expectations of reducing decayed, missing and filled teeth since its inception in the mid-20th Century. Fluoride that is consumed [...]
I remembered when I was at Temple Dental School, about 30 years ago, I was telling one of my favorite instructors. Andrea Cohen that I was working on weekends and on breaks in our family’s moving business. She knew my father was a dentist and asked me why I didn’t go into orthodontics. It took [...]
Do you remember the excitement of losing a tooth and placing it under the pillow as a child? If you are a certain age, you might have hoped you would be getting a dollar in exchange for your tooth from the tooth fairy (or one of their secret helpers). Well we can say goodbye to [...]
This is a great question that comes around all of the time still, even though I haven’t placed a mercury filling in almost 25 years. It’s a tricky question that needs to be looked at from a few different perspectives. We can start by looking at the differences between the options of dental amalgam and [...]
We all have been hearing about how you’re your oral health can affect your systemic health for decades now. Periodontal disease has been shown to affect your cardiovascular health and cause up to 5 time’s great chance of strokes. We all know someone who has developed dementia and we are all too familiar with how [...]
