South Jersey Center for Dental Medicine Blog

You’re just about as prepared as you can be for your upcoming trip this holiday season. Your clothes are packed, your airplane ticket is reserved, and your hotel room is booked. Suddenly you develop a toothache while your overseas, and you realize that you’re not as prepared as you could have been. What should you do in that situation? An emergency dentist has the answers.

If someone offered you $900, you’d probably take it, right? Well, if you have dental insurance and forget to schedule before the year ends, you might be passing up that same amount of money! In fact, the American Dental Association found that the average person has an annual benefit of $1,250, but only gets about $323 of dental work each year. Since dental insurance is a “use it or lose it” situation, that means missing out on over $900 in benefits. Not to mention that you aren’t getting the dental care you need to have healthy teeth and gums. Keep reading for tips on how to benefit from your plan and find out why preventive care is so important for reducing your dental care costs.  

Invisalign clear aligners provide a way to fix crooked, crowded, gapped or misaligned teeth in a discreet manner. Is this still a viable means of straightening teeth for patients who have previously worn braces or undergone some other form of dental work? As you continue reading, an Invisalign expert provides the answers you need so you can move forward with achieving the smile you’ve always wanted in the safest and most effective manner possible!

The beginning of the school year means dozens of papers to sign, making sure your little ones have the supplies they need to be successful, and getting their health needs taken care of. With the addition of homework, school projects, and exhausting learning-filled days, it can be easy for your child to put their oral hygiene routine on the backburner. However, this could cause toothaches and common oral health problems like cavities to develop, resulting in missed days of school and academic distractions. To make sure your child is prepared for success, follow these three tips to get their oral health on track.

Once you get in the habit of getting routine boosts from energy and sports drinks each day, it can be hard to ween yourself off of them. Before you introduce these sugary, acidic beverages into your diet this summer, learn how they can impact your enamel and oral health from your dentist. Whether you’re a teenager or an adult, excessive consumption of these drinks has been proven to increase your risk of experiencing oral health problems. Read on to learn about what makes sports and energy beverages so bad for your teeth.

Have you ever found blood in your sink after brushing your teeth? Do you have bad breath that just doesn’t seem to go away? Do your teeth look longer than they used to? These are all early signs of gum disease, which can cause a whole mess of problems in your mouth. But can it also lead to issues in your heart? Let’s examine the possible link between gum disease and heart health.

If you think dental checkups are nothing more than a hygienist performing a quick sweep over your mouth, cleaning your pearly whites, and letting the dentist look everything over before giving a thumbs up, you’re going to the wrong dentist. Each time you visit your dentist office, not only should you receive a thorough examination and cleaning, but you can expect to be screened for oral cancer. Here is why that reason alone should keep you from skipping out on your next appointment.

When you’re sitting down planning your week, you realize you haven’t had a checkup with your dentist in a long time. It turns out, this can have detrimental effects on your oral health. Without being checked on by your dentist regularly, you can’t take proper preventive measures to avoid and be alerted if you have gum disease, tooth decay, and other serious infections. Be sure to see your dentist before serious problems arise! 

As a devoted parent, you of course want your child to enjoy lifelong dental health. That’s exactly why you should take him or her to the dentist on or before their first birthday. The condition of a baby’s teeth are a good indicator of dental problems that may surface later in life. The time to know about those potential challenges is now, before they develop into long-term difficulties.