What Is Pediatric Dentistry?

Pediatric dentistry is a field that deals with the needs of children. Dentists at https://mason.dental/ who practice in this field treat a wide range of problems affecting the developing body. The pediatric dentist’s job is to create an environment where a child can feel comfortable and be free from any fear of the dentist. To provide this environment, pediatric dentists must be gentle and caring. They must also be able to communicate with the child. For this reason, pediatric dentists must be highly skilled. For pediatric dentists to work in this field, they must complete a rigorous

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College Can Be Easy With Our Help

When a young person leaves for college, he or she may be away from their family for an extended period of time. Even though their family wants to support them, they really are on their own for the first time in their life. This article contains important information to help them adjust.   No matter how long it may seem to take or what you have to go through in the process, don’t ever give up on your collegiate career! In the heat of the moment, something or someone may hold more appeal than all

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How Does A Bank Deny A Loan?

If you have been denied a loan, you’re not the only one. Creditors often reject credit applications due to missing or incorrect information or lack of credit history. This can happen to anyone, including younger borrowers and people who have recently moved to the U.S. and never had credit. To avoid this from happening, make sure to review your credit history. Read on to learn more about why creditors deny credit and how you can prevent it.  While getting a bank loan is easy in this day and age, it’s essential to know why you

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Dental Services – What Are Veneers?

If you have been considering getting a smile makeover, you’ve probably wondered, “What are Veneers?” This is a great question with several answers. This article will provide an overview of the procedure and help you decide whether or not veneers are right for you. This article will also explain how the procedure is completed and discuss how you can care for your new teeth. In addition, we’ll talk about how you can care for your new smile afterward. You can take care of your new Veneers on your own, but you should keep them clean.

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Word of Mouth: June 2021

Hello and welcome to a brand-new issue of Word of Mouth – the Oral Health Foundation’s digital magazine. This edition is dedicated to all things National Smile Month as it celebrates its 42nd birthday. It’s a been a year since we last produced an edition of our Word of Mouth magazine and we apologise for the delay however we hope you really enjoy this packed issue. National Smile Month offers such a great opportunity to spread positivity and vital oral health messages and it’s been great to see the public and dental professionals alike coming

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In case you missed it: Most popular New Dentist Now articles of 2021

From top: Drs. Joe Vaughn and Sampada Deshpande; Drs. Alex Barrera and Katie Champion Editor’s note: Thank you to our readers and contributors for allowing the New Dentist Now become a platform for new dentists to share and learn about their experiences and insights. If you would like to contribute, please contact [email protected]. We look forward to 2022! What you should learn in dental school, but don’t As I start my endo residency … luckily, I haven’t forgotten everything that I learned in dental school. There’s a few lessons I’m bringing with me this time

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Cleaning between teeth: the secret behind a truly healthy smile

15th June 2021 When you think about maintaining a healthy mouth, brushing your teeth should be the top priority.  Twice daily toothbrushing with a fluoride toothpaste is the cornerstone to a healthy smile, but there is one simply addition that can truly transform how healthy your mouth is – and that is interdental cleaning.  While toothbrushing is the most effective way to keep your teeth clean, it only reaches 60% of the tooth’s surfaces.  Using interdental brushes to clean in between the gaps in your teeth is one of the easiest and most important things

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Caring for our oral health (and the environment too)

15th June 2021 When we think about how we care for our mouth, it might be easy to think that there is little in common between our oral health and the environment – but that’s not quite true.  In addition to turning off the tap when brushing (which saves us a staggering 12 litres of water each time), there’s an important connection that applies to all of us – and it revolves around our toothbrush. Toothbrushes form a part of our daily routine.  Twice a day, morning and night, for two minutes, they help clean

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50 Years: Former student leaders offer insight, lessons learned in retrospective series

In February 1970, a group of dental students met in Chicago to form an independent national dental student organization and named themselves the Student American Dental Association (SADA). The following year the ADA embraced this idea and organized a meeting of student representatives from each dental school in the country to help form a new organization called the American Student Dental Association (ASDA). Although scattered all over the world, several of the founders and leaders of those two organizations planned on having a reunion this year in celebration of their 50th anniversary, but it was

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Brits cast their vote on the one thing they could not go a day without

Brushing teeth has been ranked top of things Brits could not go a day without doing – according to the findings of a new nationwide poll. Two-in-three (68%) UK adults say they could not go a day without brushing their teeth, deeming it more than three times as important than exercise (21%), as a daily task.1 Brushing teeth was also judged to be more essential than eating breakfast (43%) and washing (41%).1 The findings are part of new research by the Oral Health Foundation to coincide with National Smile Month – a charity campaign aiming

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