It took me 9 months to share this gift with the world. Over a hundred hours of labor. No, not a child. In September, I started the planning for the Holiday Auction for my Rotary Club each year. Through a lot of hard work and the help of many generous people we raised $19,000 this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It doesn’t come as a surprise that many of us don’t like to discuss individual body issues, but that doesn’t mean we don’t worry about them on a day to day basis. Let’s face it, each one of us, at one point in time has typed into Google looking for some sort of answer to [...]
For many people this is the time of year that they throw away thousands of dollars every year. Dental benefits usually are based on a calendar year and don’t carry over into the next year. Once the year is finished, so are the funds. Poof! They’re gone. If you are lucky enough to have dental [...]
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 [...]
As the holiday seasons are upon us, bringing with them all kinds of sugar dreams which can beget dental nightmares, it’s not a bad idea to brush up on your brushing techniques. Brushing, like any habit, can be good or bad. It’s a daily chore, so it’s easy to slide into a lazy routine that’s [...]
Hopefully, you and your family have survived the sweet, sticky, sugar-coated event that was Halloween. Time for the next holiday to potentially put a dent in your dentin – Thanksgiving! We here at Dillon Family Dentistry have put together a list of the good, the bad, and the starchy foods of this all-American food fest. [...]
