13
Jul
2022
We at your Dentist Epping know that, much as you’d like to, you can’t always clean your teeth after a meal. In that situation, it’s handy to chew some sugar-free gum because doing that helps protect your teeth and gums. Chewing gum makes you produce more saliva in your mouth, and because sugar-free gum contains no sugar, it does not damage your teeth. The extra saliva produced helps protect your teeth from the acid produced by the bacteria in the plaque on your teeth and the acids in your food and drink. It’s really good to counter that extra acid as…
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07
May
2022
Your Epping Dentist can help your son or daughter if they have white marks on their teeth, which are much whiter than the surrounding tooth enamel. Their white colour looks very solid (opaque) compared with the rest of the tooth enamel. These are called white spot and are often caused by hypomineralisation (i.e., the under-mineralisation) of the tooth enamel by calcium salts. Whereas normal enamel is slightly transparent, you can’t see into a white spot. Sometimes they become brownish as they stain easily. People with white spot tend to be uncomfortable about their appearance – and don’t want to smile.…
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07
Apr
2022
We mostly think of asthma as a lung disease associated with wheezing, coughing and breathing difficulties. Perhaps, you are one of 2.7. million people in Australia who have it, and if you are, hopefully, you have it under control. If you are one of those people, your Epping Dentist would also like you to consider how your asthma may be impacting your oral health. Hopefully, it isn’t – but if it is, there are things that you can do to minimise that damage. The main avenue of damage comes from having a dry mouth, caused by having less saliva. That can…
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07
Mar
2022
We finally seem to be coming out of a very long period of up-turned routines and lifestyles. It’s been a challenging time for many families, even apart from the threat of catching COVID and possible death. Your local Epping Dentist knows how children have been impacted by staying at home – they’ve missed their friends, missed lessons in class, and missed seeing other people. They’ve been cooped up inside instead of being outside and physically active. They’ve had to manage home-schooling – or worse, weren’t able to do the home-schooling. They’ve missed all their other activities. Unfortunately, some families may have…
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03
Jan
2022
Have your teens got into the habit of having a sports drink after sports training or their weekly sports match? Has celebration come to mean a 1,100 ml slushy for them? Or is being sophisticated mean a 500ml bottle of iced tea? Do they want to down a 600 ml bottle of cola or lemon squash when they are eating out? Your Dentist Epping, the Cancer Council, the Heart Foundation and Diabetes Australia will tell you that these habits are terrible for your teen’s future oral and physical health. The high concentrations of sugar and acid in all these drinks…
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