The Business Insider published a list of “18 Quick and Easy Daily Habits That Can Significantly Improve Your Life!” There were some good ideas on there, but these are a few of our favorite life hacks. • Write down the day’s most important task. Doing the most important (or most dreaded) task first thing [...]
We set the tone of our office by the music we select for every patient that comes in, but we don’t do Heavy Metal. OK, at least not in the teeth. As dentistry has evolved, we’ve moved away from metal restorations. Porcelains have gotten stronger and more versatile over the years. We’ve been admiring all [...]
Maybe, but there might be more to it than just that for you. For those that have put off getting dental work done for a period of time, whether it was because of fear of dentistry or trying to find the inexpensive dentistry option, your needs might be different. In my last blog we talked [...]
Here’s a blog from a progressive office I really like with some annotations of my thoughts. Despite our best efforts, most patients in our practice have had at least one cavity and filling in their lives, and if you are in your thirties or older, there is a good chance that at least some of [...]
Italian researchers have evidence of a 14,000 year old teeth that had been worked on by the first known 'dentist'. Here's the article: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/14000-year-old-tooth-shows-oldest-form-dentistry-and-it-s-pretty-grim Dental Amalgam, "Silver Fillings", have been used for less than 200 years. Not so long in respect to the full history of dentistry. If you look at all of the advances [...]
Who doesn’t want a gleaming snow-white smile! However, it's common for teeth to get discolored over time, due to the enamel becoming thinner and more transparent. It’s just a normal part of the aging process. Teeth also get stained from drinks like red wine, coffee, tea, and cola. While getting your teeth professionally whitened by [...]
Do you just love the feeling after your professional dental cleaning here at Dillon Family Dentistry? Your mouth is at its freshest and cleanest, your teeth their whitest. And the bacteria that occur naturally in your mouth – both beneficial and undesirable – have been neutralized. This is a great time for us to introduce [...]
You know those things that have supposedly been there all along, without any real attention on them or focus, sometimes without even a name until someone comes up with the tonic for it. That’s what I feel about with Atrial Fibrillation. My heart was first examined over 25 years ago. It was determined that I [...]
