Reality TV has made a living on makeovers: home, job, body, wardrobe, restaurant, you name it. And, while we like to watch the Real Housewives of New Jersey as much as anyone, at Gentle Dental the only makeover we really care about involves your smile. Are there things that you hate about your smile? Every […]
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At Gentle Dental, we’re assured by all of our younger patients that they diligently brush their teeth for two minutes twice a day and floss once a day. OK, maybe they do both of those things, at times, in a cursory fashion. But they still chew minty gum lots of the time and munch on
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In April’s first blog we didn’t delve into April showers and May flowers. We didn’t talk about chocolate Easter bunnies or those tulips coming up in your garden. We talked about the root canal. Fer fun! Our aim was to dispel some of the incredible misinformation that surrounds this important dental procedure. Root canals aren’t
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Electric toothbrushes used to be mainly a sideshow. Vibrating brushheads didn’t really do much to brush the plaque and food from your teeth unless you basically used them just as you would a manual toothbrush. The consensus was, “What’s the point?” That all changed when Oral-B introduced electric/powered toothbrushes with rotating and oscillating brushheads. Then
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In this month’s first blog, we got into some of the basics of dentures. Whether full or partial, dentures can change your life if you’re missing most or all of your teeth. They allow you to eat most foods again, they help maintain the angles of your facial anatomy, and they give you reason to
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No one has a perfect family. Maybe more bonding would help. Or not. And no one has a perfect smile. Bonding with the team at Gentle Dental would definitely help with that! Drs. Strober, Messer, and Butcofski cover minor cosmetic defects, such as chips or gaps between teeth, with dental bonding. Bonding is a great
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If you’re old enough, you remember that lame TV show, Emergency!, where they went around every week zapping hapless victims with the defibrillator for any conceivable injury. Heart attack. Zap! Indigestion? Zap! Hangnail? Zap! At Gentle Dental we’re not prone to overreacting, but we do want our patients to take dental emergencies seriously because by
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In this month’s first Gentle Dental blog we got into the basics of straightening teeth with the invisible alternative to metal bands and wires, Invisalign. At our Edison practice, we field lots of questions about Invisalign from parents and teens. Everyone wonders how clear acrylic trays that seem more like sport mouth guards than orthodontics
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Despite the fact that we’re not sure if our kids are heading back to “actual” school this fall or the Zoom variety, there’s one universal truth — many of them will be sporting braces. And when you’re a kid at that impressionable age, who wants a mouth full of metal? That’s what will happen if
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When tetracycline was introduced over 60 years ago, people were thrilled to have another alternative antibiotic. While it was bad for bacteria, tetracycline also proved bad for the dentin in children’s teeth, causing a reaction that stained many patients’ teeth grey. The first case of reported tooth discoloration in children occurred in 1956. Many, many
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