While energy drinks are often touted as being a healthier and beneficial alternative to carbonates drinks and sometimes water, thanks to the electrolytes they may provide, they are actually a worse choice. Many consumers are unaware of the pitfalls of these energy drinks and supplemental workout beverages until they speak with their dental team. At …
Do you suffer from chronic bad breath? If so, you’re not alone. Millions of people around the world deal with bad breath on a daily basis. While there are many causes of bad breath, the most common is halitosis, or bad oral odor. Fortunately, there are many treatment options available for those who suffer from …
Do you find yourself clenching and grinding your teeth at night? Are you worried about the long-term effects of this behavior? If so, you may want to consider wearing a dental nightguard while you sleep. Our dentists at Gentle Dental Care are dental professionals who can help patients in the Edison, NJ area determine if …
Flossing gets about as much respect as Rodney Dangerfield or whoever is the latest Jets’ quarterback to not measure up to Broadway Joe. But flossing deserves better. It’s an important part of a good home dental hygiene regimen, as it removes plaque from the surfaces and spaces where your toothbrush can’t. In this first tulip-covered April blog …
When our hygienists talk with our patients from Edison and the surrounding towns, we inquire if they floss regularly. Most say they do. The key word here probably would be “regularly,” as every now and then doesn’t equate to that. Regardless, our hygienists can tell if you’re a regular flosser or not anyway by how …
It’s not easy being a teenager. Acne. Cliques at school. Difficult teachers. Essays. Calculus. And that occasional rancid breath. Yes, if you have a teenager in your household in Edison or Timbuktu, odds are you’ve gotten a whiff of, how shall we say, less than pleasant breath. Everyone thinks it’s their teenager being a lazy …
At Gentle Dental, our entire team is dedicated to making our patients smile inside when they see their great smiles in the mirror every morning. But there is one thing that comes up this time of year that we know will make every patient frown — leaving dental insurance dollars unspent and then losing them …
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 …
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 …
While the Internet has its obvious pluses, it also has lots of, uh, less than admirable traits. One of them is the way anyone can put something out there and other people simply believe it to be true. That’s how a woman whose sole claim to fame was that she had been a Playboy Playmate …
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