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Diabetes Impacts on Oral Health: How to Protect Your Teeth
Managing diabetes can be a difficult task. Proper dental care is an important part of maintaining good overall health and wellbeing for people with diabetes.
How Does Menopause Affect Oral Health?
Some friends of ours Dr Rosie Ross and Jo Vines have recently released their book Approaching the Pause. We recommend this book to anyone interested in a unique, entertaining and informative perspective on menopause and perimenopause.
Should I Use Fluoride Toothpaste? We Answered Some Common Questions About Fluoride
Are you confused about fluoride? How much do you need?
How Often Should You Change Your Toothbrush?
When was the last time you changed your toothbrush? Your toothbrush is an essential, first line tool to prevent decay and cavities which can lead to more complex and painful oral and health complications.
Why Do My Gums Bleed When I Floss?
"Why do my gums bleed when I floss?" is a question patients ask us regularly. This is particularly the case if you only floss sporadically.
5 Tips for choosing the best dental health insurance
Choosing the best dental health insurance can often feel confusing and overwhelming. When researching different insurance policies it's important to consider your individual needs.
Our 5 Favourite Toothpastes
Selecting a toothpaste can be tricky. You might feel challenged when faced with the myriad of options in the toothpaste aisle in the supermarket or pharmacy.
Smiles For Life ebook
It's Dental Health Week! This year the theme Keep Your Smile For Life inspired us to create an ebook to help you build trust and dental confidence across a lifetime.
How is Dental Plaque Detected?
Our mouths are full of bacteria, and this is perfectly normal. As humans, we have a close relationship with bacteria, they are key to maintaining our health.
Dental Plaque: Consequences and Preventions
Dental plaque is a sticky substance or ‘biofilm’ that collects on the surface of the teeth. Plaque can be colourless or slightly white, often has a ‘fuzzy feel’ and is most noticeable when the teeth are not brushed.
What Causes Dental Trismus?
Dental trismus is also known as ‘lockjaw’, a condition in which one is unable to open the mouth properly. There are several ways to identify dental trismus, the most common being the inability to open the mouth beyond two fingers width.
How Can I Prevent Dental Plaque?
We know that nobody wants to be in pain, dealing with dental issues and declining dental health, so the question is, how often should you visit your dentist? Unfortunately, the answer is not a simple number.
What are the Symptoms of Dental Caries?
Dental caries is the professional term that is used to describe cavities and tooth decay. It’s caused by bacteria that produces acid, breaking down your teeth.
Smoking and Oral Cancer
In Australia, there are about 2500 new incidents or oral/pharyngeal cancer diagnosed every year. The risk of oral cancer is about 1 in 90 for men and 1 in 200 for women.
Alcohol Consumption and Oral Cancer
In 2018, over 5,090 Australians received a diagnosis of head and neck cancer (which includes oral oropharyngeal cancer). As a result of this cruel disease, an expected 1,000 of these conditions will result in death, and only 2/3 of them will still be alive 5 years from diagnosis.
Diabetes and Oral Health
People diagnosed with diabetes will experience irregular blood glucose levels. These irregular levels disturb the bacteria in our mouth as people living with diabetes have a lower resistance when it comes to infection and do not heal as easy.
How Often Should I See My Dentist?
We know that nobody wants to be in pain, dealing with dental issues and declining dental health, so the question is, how often should you visit your dentist? Unfortunately, the answer is not a simple number.
Gum Disease Can Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease
The link between heart disease and gum disease (periodontal disease) has been studied for several years. The initial discovery of gum disease involved the development of a type of film that builds up around your teeth, now known as plaque.
Why do I have bad breath?
Having bad breath (halitosis), is something that most of us will experience at some point in our lives. However, having long term bad breath can become quite socially debilitating and usually makes people feel embarrassed and less confident within themselves when in close contact with others.
Did you know... Teeth need opposing partners to chew properly?
Teamwork is an important aspect for most of us in everyday life. Whether this be in school sports, group assignments at university or later in life at your job or around the house.
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