December 2016

    There are many parts to a tooth and they all have different functions! Here is a good video explaining the parts (I have no affiliation to colgate I just like the video) plus she has a delightful accent!

23We wish you and your families all the best over this holiday season!  

Fluoride varnish is amazing!  It’s definitely one of my favorite products in the world.  Right up there is duct tape and chocolate.  What makes it so amazing you ask?  Well let me tell you!!! It helps prevent tooth decay. I’m not going to go into all of how fluoride prevents tooth decay as I have

https://youtu.be/LP-g1pp01M8

The best way to get fluoride is through your drinking water, in the US we’ve been adding fluoride to the drinking water for over 70 years, they’ve been studying the effects of this for about that long and have found no negative effects to properly fluoridated drinking water.  The positive effects that they’ve found are

Fluoride is a really effective way of re-hardening teeth that have been exposed to foods and acids and therefore preventing tooth decay.  Anyone who has teeth and eats food could benefit from fluoride. Fluoride is especially important for growing children.  If we can get children the proper amount of fluoride as their teeth are forming

There are two ways hat fluoride helps our teeth, one happens when we’re kids before our teeth are in our mouth, the other happens after our teeth are up in our mouths. When as kids we’re exposed to fluoride it can be absorbed into our teeth as they are developing.  This makes for harder teeth

Teeth are weakened by acid.  This acid is produced by the bacteria in our mouths or it could be from the foods and drinks we consume.  The acid dissolves the minerals out of the outer layer of our teeth, the enamel.  By exposing our teeth to fluoride we can put the minerals back in. Let’s