How To Help Relieve Your Child’s Toothache You know what to do when your child comes home from the playground with a bruised knee. But what about when your little one bites an apple wrong one morning and a filling comes loose or they experience discomfort from an emerging tooth? What can you do to…

Keep your child’s smile shining brightly while they’re straightening their teeth. Getting braces is an exciting time for kids and parents alike. Your child will grow accustomed to wearing their new braces, and together you’ll overcome new challenges, like learning to brush around brackets and wires. You’ll also be spending more time than ever going…

Dental Health from Kindergarten Through High School Graduation Brush up on what’s normal development for your child’s age. Kids lose the majority of their baby teeth between ages six and 12. Physical and mental development skyrockets as kids reach school age. Their development includes the start of losing baby teeth and gaining shiny new adult…

Healthy teeth From Infancy to Kindergarten Infancy through toddlerhood is a really exciting time for parents! You’re watching your baby grow and hit important milestones, like saying their first words or taking their first step. The arrival of pearly white baby teeth is another big one, which often triggers parents to wonder about caring for…

Keep your teeth feeling happy and strong. Your teeth are a really important part of your body even if those teeth are just baby teeth. They help you chew food and get all of the important vitamins you need from your meals to grow. Your teeth even help you talk, sing, and laugh with your…

As parents, we try to encourage our children to embrace a lot of good habits. We teach our children the importance of saying please and thank you, respecting others, and picking up after themselves. We teach our kids about the importance of bathing and keeping themselves clean. And of course, we teach our children that…

Start with an early orthodontics evaluation. Did you have braces when you were a child? If so, do you remember how old you were? The chances are that you didn’t get your braces until you were a teenager. Or, perhaps you are undergoing orthodontic treatment now as an adult. But, children often start to lose…

When are root canals in children needed? We often associate root canals as a procedure needed for adults. And though it might be more common for an adult to need a root canal procedure, root canals in children are often necessary. Root canals are done when diseased pulp needs to be removed from the tooth.…

Resist the call of candy to prevent tooth decay. If your teeth had a living nightmare, it would be candy. When it comes to propagating the growth of plaque and tartar on your teeth, candy, in all its sweet glory, is the queen. The problem is so many of us, particularly our kids, have a…

TikTok Videos: Full of the Best and Worst Dental Health Advice Social media is full of surprises. When we thought there couldn’t possibly be any more social media platforms, considering Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter’s wild success, along comes TikTok. This new platform that appeals mostly to the younger demographic allows users to post brief lip-synced…