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Flossing: What Is Your Excuse?
If you are one of the 49% of Americans who say they do not floss on a daily basis, it may be time to reconsider your oral hygiene habits. Flossing is intended to accomplish far more than just removing food between your pearly whites. By choosing to floss each day, you are giving your smile…
Reasons For Yellow Teeth
How are you making your first impression? Is it with a brilliant white smile, or one that is dingy and dull? Yellow teeth are an aesthetic concern for many people, both old and young. Fortunately, there is an affordable and simple way to correct stained teeth through professional teeth whitening. Since teeth whitening doesn’t offer…
Sports Drinks and Your Child’s Smile
If you are like most parents, you don’t hesitate to let your child rehydrate with a cold sports drink after a hard practice. However, if you want to protect their dental health, you may want to rethink that drink. Sports and energy drinks can certainly replenish lost electrolytes in the body but they are also…
Could Your Routine Dental Visits Help Keep You Well?
Many dental problems do not cause noticeable symptoms until they become more serious. A small cavity can grow larger, gum disease can progress quietly, and worn or damaged teeth may not hurt until significant damage has occurred. That is why regular dental care matters even when your smile feels healthy. Preventive dentistry focuses on protecting…
What is Molar Cupping?
If you’ve never heard of molar cupping, you are not alone. It is a term used to describe the presence of indentions or craters on the surfaces of the back teeth (molars). While molar cupping is not frequently talked about, it always needs to be addressed if it appears. Molar cupping is often a sign…
A Smile Makeover in One Visit
What would you change about the appearance of your smile? What if you could fix it in just one dental visit? Gilreath Family Dentistry proudly offers same-day smile makeovers for patients who hide their smile due to stains, chips, gaps and other minor imperfections. If you’ve been shy about getting cosmetic dentistry due to the…
Invisalign: 3 Steps to a Straighter Smile
There are a lot of reasons why adults have crooked teeth. Whether your family couldn’t afford orthodontic treatment when you were a child or your teeth have shifted out of place as you’ve gotten older, it is important to know that you can still straighten your smile now. In fact, Invisalign has become one of…
Do Your Kids Only Drink Bottled Water?
It should be no surprise that drinking water is essential to the health of your body. But did you know that your teeth need water too? While any type of water is good for rinsing away sugars and helping to neutralize acids in your mouth, tap water offers additional benefits compared to bottled water. If…
Could Your Bad Breath Be Something More?
Whether it is your co-worker or yours spouse, bad breath can be an abrupt distraction. In fact, you may be keenly aware of your own foul breath odor now that you’ve spent time wearing a mask. However, don’t make the mistake of using chewing gum, mints or even a surgical mask to simply cover up…
Boosting Your Dental Health from Home
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has struck our nation, most of us have been forced to “do life” from home. We’ve adjusted to working at home, educating our children from home, eating at home and countless other tasks in an effort to stop the spread of the virus and keep our loved ones safer. Undoubtedly,…
