by Michigan Dentist | Sep 18, 2020 | Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Checkup
Your teeth are amazing. Their primary purpose is to grind your food so it can be digested. Your molars, the large teeth in the back of your mouth, actually have the ability to exert over 200 pounds of pressure on the foods you are eating.1 But tooth enamel can break...
by Michigan Dentist | Aug 17, 2020 | Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Checkup
The toothbrush is a very old tool. In 3500 BC, the Babylonians and Egyptians used chewing sticks, similar to a modern toothbrush, to clean their teeth.1 The Chinese added bristles to the toothbrush during the Tang dynasty (619 to 907 AD) and by 1885, American...
by Michigan Dentist | Jul 23, 2020 | Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Checkup
Xylitol is one of nature’s more powerful weapons when it comes to dental care and protecting your teeth. While, in short, xylitol is a sugar substitute it’s also one of the best defensives in oral care and the general wellbeing that comes with good dental hygiene....
by Michigan Dentist | Jul 7, 2020 | Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Checkup
3 Good Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Put Off Dental Care Now That Dental Offices Are Open Again With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, dental offices across the nation were ordered to close, except for the treatment of emergency situations. This was done to reduce...
by Michigan Dentist | Jun 18, 2020 | Dental Checkup
How can dental apps help dentists and patients? There seems to be nothing in today’s modern world that an app cannot augment. This includes the dental industry and it’s patients. There are so many Android and iPhone apps available. It isn’t any wonder that there would...
by Michigan Dentist | May 29, 2020 | Dental Checkup
About 15 million root canal procedures are performed in the United States each year.1 Most are performed by dentists, but about a quarter of these procedures are performed by endodontists. Endodontists are dentists specializing in diagnosing and treating tooth pain...
