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 [...]
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 [...]
First and foremost let me put it out there that the practice of dentistry is a painless venture 99% of the time in our office these days. It’s so much easier being a painless dentist nowadays, I feel like a spoiled brat dentist compared to what my father had at his disposal when he started [...]
I was reading an article in the ADA Newsletter and felt some of the points were too good not to share. The author. Mark Bronson, DDS, started with this great query? Isn’t it funny that patients ask their dentist all of the time about the best toothbrushes, best toothpastes, rinses and flosses. Some will ask [...]
Your teeth and teeth of millions to come may have done well in the vote this year. Communities in Colorado, California and Illinois are following Philadelphia in imposing a tax on soda and tobacco! Drinks with at least 5 grams of added sweetener per 12 oz are being taxed. The votes won by a 2:1 [...]
Understand the dental practices Sure we like patients that have their teeth and want to keep them forever. That’s the dentist’s bread and butter. We focus on prevention using fluoride and sealants in children. We spend the time, often showing older adults the right way to brush for the first time in their lives. It’s [...]
I was watching a show where an athlete training for an MMA fight had to work very hard to make his weigh-in. In the day or two following he worked very hard at re-hydrating himself, to the extent that he ended up in the hospital from drinking too much water. YES, drinking too much water [...]
So, this is a tough one. I’ve never really been the dentist that drills his patients on the need to floss. There was a lot of discussion about flossing this summer in the wake of the article that cited several studies over recent years that reported a lack of data proving that flossing is effective [...]
Any day now we’ll be putting on funny costumes (like a dentist costume, which is still very scary to many), acting a little crazy and eating all kinds of stuff that we shouldn't. And that’s just the adults! For kids, Halloween can be a fantastic time to have fun and be creative. But unfortunately when [...]
