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 […]
Do You Have Dental Insurance Dollars Left? Read More »
In June’s second Gentle Dental blog, we gave you a little lesson in the human’s body’s hardest tissue, tooth enamel. Since there is some question about products claiming they can actually rebuild damaged tooth enamel, we thought another blog was worthy of dealing with this issue. After reading that June blog, you now know that
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In a normal year, we’d be well into the baseball season by now, and whether you’re a Mets or Yankees fan, there’s one universal truth — there is always lots of gum chomping going on. Heck, dugouts have bowls full of Hubba Bubba, Big League Chew, and Bazooka. Tasty bubble gums one and all, but
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At Gentle Dental, we’re all about teeth. If we had our way, there’s be a big tooth balloon floating overhead in the upcoming Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in Manhattan. We like to help our patients keep happily chomping away throughout their lives. And we feel it never hurts for our patients to know as much as
Sure, at Gentle Dental we give you a toothbrush after your twice-yearly cleanings and exams. But we’d gladly give you more floss instead. You see, it’s not that we don’t want to help you out by making sure you have a new toothbrush, it’s just that we think maybe you should switch to another type
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We all know that not brushing and flossing your teeth causes cavities. But everyone knows that. So we’re here to ask the deeper questions: Why? Why do you develop cavities if you don’t brush your teeth? What kind of bacteria grow in your mouth that cause your teeth to decay? Call to Schedule an Appointment
The Cavity Culprits: Which Bacteria Cause Cavities? Read More »
We hear about it all the time, and some if us may actually believe it, but here are some myth busters for those wisdom teeth myths that have been making their way around the information mill. Myth: We don’t actually need our wisdom teeth because they have no purpose in the mouth. Fact: People
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An increasing number of patients are receiving root canal treatments to save their teeth from extraction. The treatment itself is a tedious process that requires patients to come back to the dentist’s office multiple times before the entire procedure has been carried out and the tooth is completely disease-free and restored back to regain its
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It’s not very common for your dentist to be on-call or available during emergencies. Dental emergencies come at the most inconvenient time and usually patients would have to wait until the next business day to have their problems addressed. But if you are in extreme pain of if you really need to have that chipped
Page the Dentist, It’s an Emergency! Read More »
Here at Gentle Dental Care in Edison NJ, one of the most common procedures that we have in our day to day operations is teeth cleaning or prophylaxis. We always tell our patients that no matter how particular or how religiously they follow their home dental care routine it is a must to have this
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