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June 18, 2016

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Preventive Dental Care and Treatment Options

“Live Mouth Smart” is a theme for world oral health day which aims to highlight the importance of oral health for a healthy body. Dentistry now a day has taken up by leaps and bounds. Advances in clinical care in dentistry have been vivid, but the profession for decades has strived to outline its more general relationship to patient health, specifically the importance of oral health to general health. Preventive approach in dental practice has been cited as a reason for caries decline in recent decades and as a major part of the service-mix of dental practices in the future. Preventive dental care is the key goal of your oral health care and should be performed on a regular basis to ensure a lifelong healthy smile. The goal of Woodbridge Smiles is to help patients maintain their oral health, as well as to help avoid dental problems in the future. Preventive dental care is an important part of an excellent quality of life, now and as you age and negligence of these will le...

Eating disorders and oral health

About 3% of Americans, or 8 million people, have anorexia, bulimia and related eating disorders, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. These life-threatening conditions also have serious consequences for oral health. What are eating disorders? Eating disorders are illnesses characterized by preoccupations with food and weight. Anorexia is when a person severely limits his or her food intake. People with anorexia have a distorted body image and an extreme fear of gaining weight. Bulimia involves cycles of bingeing and purging. A person with bulimia will eat compulsively (bingeing) and then get rid of the food (purging) by intentionally vomiting, exercising or taking laxatives. Binge-eating is when a person goes through periods of compulsive eating, followed by guilt or depression, but does not purge. Eating disorders are most common among young women ages 15 to 25. They can also affect men and boys, as well as...

Are you delaying dental care ??

A survey sponsored by the Children’s Dental Health Project found that most Americans are unaware that children’s dental services are covered under the 10 essential health benefits in the Affordable Care Act. According to the survey, 33% of Americans say that either they or a family member are currently suffering from dental problems that need to be addressed. Some barriers that prevent individuals from getting the care they need are out-of-pocket expenses and lack of insurance coverage. In 2009, the CDC found that 34.6% of third graders in Kentucky had untreated tooth decay. Untreated tooth decay in children can lead to problems with chewing, speech, and self-esteem. Long-term untreated decay can cause a tooth to become abscessed. This can result in sepsis, an infection in the blood, which can travel to the brain and in extreme cases cause death . Delaying a dental visit can be hazardous to one’s overall health. Patrice Pascual, Executive D...

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