Excitement and anticipation life’s special occasions start long before the day arrives. And yet … if you’re too embarrassed to smile because of dark, stained teeth, it’s hard to show on the outside all the love and joy you’re feeling on the inside. We can give you a brighter – even glamorous – smile just…
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You Can Stop Snoring and Begin Breathing Again!
Categories: Sleep Apnea
…and Hampton cosmetic dentistry could be the key! A good, restful night’s sleep is necessary to keep your body functioning the way it should. This period of relaxation is used to restore and revitalize all your systems. So, when your sleep is interrupted by your own snoring, snorting or gurgling, (or that of your partner,)…
The Mouth is Connected to the Knee Bone!
Categories: Dental Health
It’s an often-forgotten fact that the mouth is connected to the rest of the body. When this simple little truth is forgotten, it skips your attention that it’s part of the whole. You use it to smile, to laugh, to speak and communicate with someone else. It’s a place to put on your lipstick! It…
When It Comes To Oral Cancer, Looks Can Be Deceiving
Categories: Dental Health
What You Need to Know About Oral Cancer: It’s an important public service when high-profile people like actor Michael Douglas turn the spotlight on oral cancer. Yet still many people remain unaware of this potentially lethal disease. Oral cancer is not rare and it’s occurring more frequently and to a younger group with every passing…
Oral Health Could Affect You and Your Baby
Categories: Dental Health
For some time, gum disease, or periodontal disease has been linked to complications of pregnancy including infertility, premature birth, low birth-weight, toxemia, eclampsia and gestational diabetes. Research has strengthened this association by showing that gestational diabetes appears in women with gum disease – even if they don’t smoke or drink. Gestational diabetes usually disappears once…
What’s Precious To You? Tell the world… Every Day!
Categories: Cosmetic Dentistry
What you choose to place a high value on says quite a bit about you. For example, if you treasure your health and well-being and that of your family, that tells the world that quality of life really matters to you. An improved quality of life brings each of us a greater sense of self-confidence…
Secure and Versatile, Smile with Dental Implants
Categories: Restorative Dentistry
Nobody wants to lose teeth, but let’s face it – it can happen to anyone, even here in Hampton. Maybe even you? Thanks to dental implants though, you can avoid further damage that would otherwise add insult to injury, like the inevitable shifting and tilting of surrounding teeth and the loss of bone in the…
It’s Laughable and So Easy!
Categories: Stories
For millennia, Tibetan monks have laughed out loud on awakening- no joke! Seriously, though, even faking a laugh cues your body and your mind to stay calmer and more focused. How? By shutting off stress hormones and triggering the release of feel-good endorphins. What else? We can show you how to laugh out loud enthusiastically,…
Marvelous Mint, More than a Breath Freshener
Categories: Dental Health
You probably associate mint with toothpaste or breath freshener, but it has been used as an herbal remedy and a spa soother in face packs, foot rubs, and bath soaks. Both peppermint and spearmint are very popular, especially for cooking, and if you’re not a gardener, you can easily find commercially dried leaves. 7 Mint…
Monkey See… Monkey Do?
Categories: Dental Health
Female long-tailed macaque monkeys in Thailand have been observed teaching their young how to use strands of hair to clean between their teeth. If monkeys can floss, so can you! If you’re not flossing, you’re missing about a third of your tooth surfaces. Even if you were fasting, you’d still need to brush and floss…