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Some dental issues may be avoided by simple healthy lifestyle habits including brushing and flossing regularly and correctly, drinking enough water and making healthy food choices. These lifestyle factors can all affect the bacteria in our mouth and help to keep them in a healthy balance, thus preventing plaque build up which can lead to more serious dental issues.
How to Avoid Sugar Overload this Christmas
When you think of a traditional Christmas what comes to mind? Perhaps cardboard advent calendars full of yummy chocolates, bowls of sweets placed strategically around the house for maximum temptation and amounts of food and drink that we wouldn’t dare consume all year round.
The Negative Effects of Avoiding Dental Care
November is men’s health month in Australia. For some reason, many men, particularly fathers seem to maintain different standards of care for their kids or loved ones than for themselves.
3 Appliances that protect your teeth
Having traumatised, damaged or ill-functioning teeth can be a painful burden. However, when our teeth are healthy and well-functioning it can be difficult to imagine them in a poor state.
3 Easy tips for a fit mouth
We all know how important regular physical exercise is for our entire body. The list of benefits is endless and includes decreased risks of chronic disease, weight management problems, low energy levels and mental health concerns.
How is Dental Plaque Detected?
Our mouths are full of bacteria, and this is perfectly normal. As humans, we have a close relationship with bacteria, they are key to maintaining our health.
Dental Plaque: Consequences and Preventions
Dental plaque is a sticky substance or ‘biofilm’ that collects on the surface of the teeth. Plaque can be colourless or slightly white, often has a ‘fuzzy feel’ and is most noticeable when the teeth are not brushed.
How Can I Prevent Dental Plaque?
We know that nobody wants to be in pain, dealing with dental issues and declining dental health, so the question is, how often should you visit your dentist? Unfortunately, the answer is not a simple number.
What are the Symptoms of Dental Caries?
Dental caries is the professional term that is used to describe cavities and tooth decay. It’s caused by bacteria that produces acid, breaking down your teeth.
Smoking and Oral Cancer
In Australia, there are about 2500 new incidents or oral/pharyngeal cancer diagnosed every year. The risk of oral cancer is about 1 in 90 for men and 1 in 200 for women.
Alcohol Consumption and Oral Cancer
In 2018, over 5,090 Australians received a diagnosis of head and neck cancer (which includes oral oropharyngeal cancer). As a result of this cruel disease, an expected 1,000 of these conditions will result in death, and only 2/3 of them will still be alive 5 years from diagnosis.
Diabetes and Oral Health
People diagnosed with diabetes will experience irregular blood glucose levels. These irregular levels disturb the bacteria in our mouth as people living with diabetes have a lower resistance when it comes to infection and do not heal as easy.
How Often Should I See My Dentist?
We know that nobody wants to be in pain, dealing with dental issues and declining dental health, so the question is, how often should you visit your dentist? Unfortunately, the answer is not a simple number.
Do Dental X-Rays Show All Types of Cavities?
When it comes to oral hygiene, cavities can cause many issues for patients. There are many reasons for this.
Watching the Mouth from a Young Age
As a parent, you may be wondering when or how often you should be bringing your child to the dentist. Something we truly believe at Ethical Dental is prevention is better than cure, and this is a driving factor to bring your child to the dentist from an early age to support their overall health as an adult.
Why do I have bad breath?
Having bad breath (halitosis), is something that most of us will experience at some point in our lives. However, having long term bad breath can become quite socially debilitating and usually makes people feel embarrassed and less confident within themselves when in close contact with others.
What are Common Causes of Dental Pain?
Pain is something that no one wishes for, however, it serves a very useful purpose for us humans. Feeling pain in our bodies way of telling us that something is wrong, and that we need to pay attention to the problem.
Did you know... Teeth need opposing partners to chew properly?
Teamwork is an important aspect for most of us in everyday life. Whether this be in school sports, group assignments at university or later in life at your job or around the house.
Will dental implants rust?
A dental implant is an artificial replacement for teeth. Losing teeth due to; trauma, decay, wear, gum disease and other issues that can cause an individual to lose natural teeth is when a dental implant is considered.
What is a dental splint?
A dental splint refers to several types of orthodontic devices used today to treat numerous dental problems. Such issues include bruxism (tooth grinding), issues with apnoea (interrupted breathing, usually during sleep) and snoring.
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