A small gap in a young child’s smile is adorable, in an adult’s smile; not so much. So what constitutes the difference and how can you keep your family’s smiles from looking like Jack-of-the-Lantern? At our Concord dentist office, we understand that you want an amazing smile. We provide [...]
Next month kicks off National Dental Hygiene Month. It’s a month in which dental professionals stress the importance of oral hygiene. Yet, October shouldn’t be the only month we focus on protecting our mouth and teeth. As a Concord dentist practicing family dentistry, we encourage our [...]
Getting your child ready for the first day of school can be overwhelming. All the to-do list items that you’ve thought about over the summer must finally be crossed off: book fees and lunch payments, supplies and haircuts, physicals and doctor visits. It all adds up pretty quickly. At our [...]
Long ago, oral health was not a priority. Dentists existed mainly to extract a tooth that was causing problems. It led, I’m sure, to a lot of toothless smiles, and perhaps that explains why so many pictures of our ancestors captured unsmiling people. Luckily, as research (and possibly vanity[...]
Wondering if your toothbrush is clean seems like an easy question to answer, right? Well, maybe not. Most of us think our toothbrush is clean; after all, we clean our teeth with it using a cleansing paste, so how could it be dirty? Our Concord dentist office, like many others, routinely hands [...]
In the dental industry a bridge is a common term. Like any bridge, it connects point A to point B, and really, a dental bridge has much in common with a bridge we may cross on the road. Both types of bridges are supported at each end, both require regular maintenance, and both are a thing of [...]