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 [...]
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 [...]
The leaves are changing and the days are getting cooler here on the Main Line, which only means one thing- Fall is here! October is a wonderful month to bring out those cozy decorations around your home, from the spooky Halloween ghouls and cobwebs to potpourri that leaves your home smelling absolutely marvelous. Potpourri, however, [...]
While you may not consider your next dental visit to be a brush with fame, there are some dentists out there who have achieved quite a bit of public attention. Here are just a few. “Doc” Holliday “Doc” wasn’t just a nickname – the famous gunfighter who was involved in the “Shootout at OK Corral” [...]
As Thanksgiving approaches, many of us are happy to be thankful for so many things, but how many people are thinking “dental” when making their list? Well- worry no more. Your friends at Dillon Family Dentistry are ready to help you with some important dental things to be thankful for! Your smile! Numerous surveys have [...]
