Category: Dentist Tips

June 8, 2021

Avoiding Care is Not a Cure for Dental Anxiety

Visiting your dentist may cause you stress, but avoiding care is not a cure for your dental anxiety. Whether your dental anxiety stems from a negative experience, financial encumbrances, or fear of pain, avoidance…
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May 5, 2021

The Importance of Maintaining Your Oral Health

Maintaining your oral health should always be a priority. The Covid-19 pandemic caused quite an interruption to daily life, but while it is important to remain cautious, oral health should not be neglected. Complications…
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February 1, 2018

Biomimetic Dentistry Blog

In my ideal professional world as a general dentist, my dentistry would never cause tooth sensitivity, never lead to further dental procedures, and never need to be replaced. Now as much of a dream…
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November 10, 2017

Use It or Lose It

Each year, patients miss out on scheduling the dental treatment they need, deserve and have the benefits to cover. Unfortunately, dental benefit dollars don’t roll over into the next year, leading to a significant…
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November 10, 2017

Are You Too Busy?

In our last article “Now is the Time”, we addressed the overarching need for seniors to pursue the appropriate dental treatment at the proper time.  Dental disease is for the most part chronic and…
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November 10, 2017

Now Is the Time

One of the most disheartening aspects of dental practice is not being given the consent by patients to intervene with the appropriate treatment at the proper time.  Dental disease is for the most part…
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September 15, 2017

Xerostomia

By: Thomas S. Jennings, DDS One condition commonly found in our mature patients is xerostomia. Like many medical terms this one comes from Latin roots, in this case“xero” (the absence of moisture) and “stoma”…
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December 18, 2015

Smile!

(It is more than you think.) By Dr. Thomas S. Jennings, DDS Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other — it…
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October 6, 2014

Books written by patients

Interested in a good read? Why don’t you select a book written by a fellow patient? We bet you didn’t know that many of our patients are actually published authors! Know that we feature…
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