Our Dental Blog
Whether you are an existing patient or searching for a dentist in the Norwich, CT area, we’re excited you are here. With the dental industry advancing, we recognize the importance of keeping our patients and visitors up to date with all of the new and exciting technologies taking place in our practice.
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Dwight Howard: A Bright NBA Star With a Smile to Match
Have you started orthodontic treatment recently? Are you having a little trouble getting used to your braces? If so, you are not alone: Everybody goes through an adjustment period during which they momentarily wonder if they’ll really ever get used to this. Don’t...
What Dental Implants Could Do For You
Missing or damaged teeth can make anyone feel as though their smile is not up to par with those around them. However, instead of replacing missing teeth with bridges or dentures, you can now fill in your gaps permanently with dental implants. But what can dental...
Custom Oral Appliances Could Help Stop Sleep Apnea
For millions of Americans, sleep apnea is a serious health condition. Not only can it impair your day-to-day living, you might be more susceptible to high blood pressure, heart disease or stroke.Sleep apnea occurs when you stop breathing for short periods while...
A Royal Fix
So you’re tearing up the dance floor at a friend’s wedding, when all of a sudden one of your pals lands an accidental blow to your face — chipping out part of your front tooth, which lands right on the floorboards! Meanwhile, your wife (who is nine months pregnant) is...
Make Efforts to Protect Your Teeth from Disease While Wearing Braces
Orthodontic treatment is a big investment. But given the benefits for future good health and a more attractive smile, it's well worth it.In the here and now, though, braces wearers face a different threat to their dental well-being — dental disease. Wearing braces can...
How Kathy Bates Retains Her Movie-Star Smile
In her decades-long career, renowned actress Kathy Bates has won Golden Globes, Emmys, and many other honors. Bates began acting in her twenties, but didn't achieve national recognition until she won the best actress Oscar for Misery — when she was 42 years old! “I...
Ease Your Child’s Discomfort During Teething
Your sweet, happy baby has suddenly become a gnawing, drooling bundle of irritation. Don't worry, though, no one has switched babies on you. Your child is teething.For most children, their first teeth begin breaking through the gums around six to nine months. Usually...
How Often Should I Brush?
Brushing your teeth offers a simple way to remove plaque from your teeth, but brushing too often or not often enough can cause problems. Dr. Edward Yates, your Norwich, CT dentist, explains how often you should brush.Why is brushing important?Plaque, a colorless,...
Jimmy Fallon Can’t Catch a Break – Except in His Tooth
Want to know the exact wrong way to pry open a stubborn lid? Just ask Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC-TV’s popular “Tonight Show.” When the 40-year-old funnyman had trouble opening a tube of scar tissue repair gel with his hands, he decided to try using his teeth.What...
We may Still be Able to Save Your Tooth with a Root Canal Alternative
Your tooth is in peril if its innermost layer, the pulp, becomes infected and inflamed. Deep tooth decay, repeated dental procedures or fractures can all expose the pulp and ultimately the roots to infection and lead to tooth loss.But that scenario isn't inevitable —...
No “Glee” in Tooth Grinding
Sure, it’s big news when celebs tweet selfies from the dental office… if you’re still living in the 20th century. But in Hollywood today, it’s harder to say who hasn’t posted snaps of themselves in the dentist’s chair than who has. Yet the pictures recently uploaded...
4 Diet Changes You Should Make for Better Oral Health
One of the most popular subjects in books, magazines and social media is food — the things we should or should not eat (or at least not too much). While losing weight is a popular focus, it's only one part of the whole — a balanced diet that supplies the nutrients we...
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