When you’re not dealing with any type of discomfort, everything’s fine! You don’t think too much about the safety of your smile (beyond the fact that you need to practice your usual preventive care, of course). However, when you deal with any level of chewing pain, suddenly your world feels topsy turvy! What does this […]
Category: Family Dentistry
What Are Those Noises My Partner Makes During Sleep?
It’s one thing for the person who sleeps next to you to occasionally talk in his or her sleep or to make other noises that wake you up, make you laugh, and then you report on them with a smile on your face in the morning! It’s quite another when you realize you’re being woken […]
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Important Reasons To Address Ongoing Breath Issues
You might not have done anything about your bad breath yet. However, it’s been there for a while, it’s not getting better, and it’s definitely not going away. While occasional yucky breath is not usually a cause for concern (this is usually an issue that follows a particularly powerfully-seasoned meal), it is a worry when […]
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3 Reasons You Can’t Get By Without Checkups
If someone from our Ankeny, IA team asked you if you should get dental checkups twice a year, you would likely say, “Yes! Of course!” However, do you know why you actually cannot get by without them? Are you aware of the fact that they do a lot for your oral health? When you are […]
Smile Safety: 3 Easy Things To Cut Back On
Sometimes, what you really set out to do for your smile health is to completely eliminate something that you feel certain isn’t good for you. However, when it’s something you really like or that you’re quite used to, the act of elimination becomes difficult if not impossible and you may even ask yourself: Why didn’t […]
Your Local Dentist Explains: Levels Of Control And What To Do
As you spend any amount of time reflecting on your smile health, you may find that you feel a little bit uncomfortable about one particular detail: You don’t have complete control over every last detail! This can make you question whether your efforts are going to pay off. Why bother brushing, you wonder, if you […]
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February Family Fun: Keeping Smiles Healthy!
The lovely and heart-filled month of February is just about here, which means everyone has spring (and visions of candy) on their minds. What can you do, you wonder, to soar through the month with your family while having tons of fun and while avoiding the oral health consequences that you worry about, especially with […]
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Dental Care Products: Safe Or Unsafe?
As you do your best to remain focused on your oral health and to take care of your smile, you will come across products that go beyond your daily floss, brush, and toothpaste. Sometimes, you will feel confident in your knowledge of that particular item and whether it’s safe for your smile. In other cases, […]
Coping With Lots Of Smile Needs In A New Year
How to deal with the fact that you need a lot of work in 2019, you wonder? Here you are just cracking open a brand new calendar full of promise, hopes, and dreams, but your restorative dental care needs abound! Fortunately, your local dentist in Ankeny, IA can help you feel so much better about […]
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Tooth Bonding: A Good Fix For…
When you visit your Ankeny, IA dentist, you may hear a reference to “restorative” and “cosmetic” procedures. A restorative procedure fixes something, for instance, a filling can restore a tooth to health, if it is suffering from a cavity. The most common cosmetic dental procedure is teeth-whitening, which brightens a smile that is otherwise healthy. […]
