Infants and preschoolers
By the time your child is 6 months old, your doctor should assess the likelihood of your child having future dental problems. This may include a dental exam of the mother and her dental history, because the condition of her teeth can often predict possible problems with her child’s teeth. If the doctor [...]

A visit to the dentist can be a scary thing for children. The odors, the tools, the sounds, and the big person with the mask can all upset a child. When choosing a dentist for your child and preparing him or her for a visit, think about the following to make the visit as pleasant [...]

Is this topic for you?
This topic provides information on basic dental care. If you are looking for information on tooth decay or cavities, see the topic Tooth Decay. If you are looking for information on gum disease (periodontal disease), see the topic Gum Disease.
What is basic dental care?
Basic dental care involves brushing and flossing your [...]

Having bad breath can be humiliating and embarrassing, especially when you know that people are joking and criticizing you about it. It’s also frustrating trying to cure bad breath. So, what I’m going to do is share with you some tips on getting rid of bad breath.
That way, you will have more confidence and fresh [...]

Choosing Dentistry Procedures
It is essential to know how dentistry works for oral health care. Being a huge branch of medicine, dentistry includes diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of any sort of disease concerning about teeth, oral cavity, and associated structures. Implant dentistry and cosmetic dentistry both in these days and have gained wider applause for their [...]

The number of cases of mouth cancer is rising. Since the 1990s, the number of cases of oral cancer in the UK has increased by nearly 30% for men in their Forties. It has also risen by nearly 25% for women. The majority of health experts put this increase down to changes in lifestyle and [...]

Most of us are used to visiting the dentist every six months or so. If you get into good habits from an early age, going for those routine check-ups just becomes second nature. Thankfully, dental emergencies are few and far between for most us. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t prepare yourself and make [...]

There are two important issues about grinding your teeth that you should be aware of. First of all, it can cause your teeth real damage in the long term. In fact, in particularly extreme cases, it can cause damage to your teeth very quickly. The second issue about teeth grinding is that it can make [...]

Ah, halitosis! It is one of the great social stigmas. One of those things that we all worry about but we’re all too polite to mention. It’s something that everybody in a room can be aware of, except for the person who has it. You can notice it immediately on somebody else. But it’s often [...]

Sometimes, dental procedures can sound a lot more confusing and terrifying than they really are, simply because the medical names can sound mystifying to most of us. So if your dentist says you need an ‘apicoectomy’, what does that actually mean? What does the treatment actually involve? And more to the point, is it going [...]