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Pregnancy Risks Your Dentist Wants You To Know

March 11, 2019

Filed under: Preventative Dentistry — Tags: , , — Dr. Faist & Dr. Koops @ 12:00 pm

Excellent dental health is a crucial exercise across every point of our lifespan, even infancy.

Yet people who are expecting face unique obstacles and dangers during the course of the months that the fetus is growing. Features such as morning sickness, intensified bodily hormones, and a change in nutrition may cause quite a few side effects in the whole system; yet, this blog post accentuates a few of the problems that manifest orally while the mother is pregnant. Individuals that keep up with their daily personal hygiene of brushing and flossing a minimum of twice a day, enjoying a nutritious diet, as well as restricting their sugar intake are much less prone to cultivate the following complications.

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Worldwide Tooth Fairy Customs

March 4, 2019

Filed under: Oral Health — Tags: , , — Dr. Faist & Dr. Koops @ 12:00 pm

Everyone can recall occasions from our youth when the Tooth Fairy traded cash for our beloved baby teeth.

It is a popular custom for American families, and the Tooth Fairy is also a great narrative for parents to apply when trying to persuade their children to take better care of their teeth. As a matter of fact, writer Vicki Lanksy found that kids were even more dedicated to keeping up good oral hygiene if their parents assured them that the Tooth Fairy provided a lot more cash for perfect teeth. But did you realize that the Tooth Fairy that we know is primarily exclusive to Americans? And contrary to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, the sources of this particular practice are fairly unknown.

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