Healthy dental habits are important for maintaining a pleasing smile, and they are more important than you might think for maintaining a healthy body. In fact, they are critical to achieving Total Body Wellness. Many will agree that healthy lifestyle habits are important, especially so for those who are predisposed to health problems such as…
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Planning on Starting a Family? Don’t Forget this Critical Care
Before trying to start a family, get your gums checked. When you make the decision to start a family, you receive a lot of advice from doctors, friends, family and other well-wishers who have been through the process: eliminate exposure to cigarette smoke and alcohol, eat a healthier diet, exercise in moderation, take supplements, etc.…
How Do Your Gums Affect Your Heart?
Since the mid-nineties, scientists have been increasingly observing a strong connection between poor oral health and heart conditions. How might oral health affect the heart? In gingivitis, the milder form of gum disease, infection leads to chronic inflammation—gums are swollen, red, and sometimes bleeding. Bleeding gums indicate the bacteria is active throughout the mouth and…
Fountain of Youth™, The Natural Choice!
Categories: Fountain of Youth™, FOY Dentures®
Based on principles of Neuromuscular dentistry, the hard tissues and the soft tissues, muscles and nerves, are allowed to work harmoniously by determining the position that best benefits the individual’s mouth and facial structure. Fountain of Youth™ Dentures employ principles of neuromuscular dentistry that seek to achieve and maintain optimum muscle relaxation and function. Because…
Live Securley with Fountain of Youth™ Dentures!
Do your dentures cause you embarrassment and pain? They may be loose and even hurt badly enough that you don’t even wear them. Some dentures float and lift, causing sore gums because they rock and food traps underneath them. Other dentures cause a lisp or a click during speaking or eating. Worn-out or “economy dentures”…
6 MONTHS…It’s the Clear Choice
How can teeth be straightened in only six months with adult braces? The Six Month Smile™ technique employs the latest technology and techniques in dentistry to move your teeth quickly and safely with clear adult braces. The key components of the treatment are the use of unique, clear braces and a primary focus of moving the…
Feeling Tired Even After a Full Night’s Sleep?
Categories: Sleep Apnea, Snoring
If you’re snoring loudly at night and exhausted during the day, sleep apnea may be to blame. Sleep apnea, episodes when breathing stops during sleep, can wake you and your partner and cause you to fall asleep during the day. But sleep apnea is more than an annoyance – it can be fatal. “You are…
Mind the GAP: Dental Implants Are Becoming Standard Care
Categories: Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Implants
A gap-toothed smile is charming on a seven-year old. Not so much for an adult. But if you’re missing a tooth or teeth, you have several options to restore your smile, says dentist Dr. Lisa Marie Samaha of Port Warwick Dental Arts in Newport News. Those options are: *A removable appliance, also known as a…
DENTURES vs. IMPLANTS
Categories: Dental Implants, Dentures
Looking for an effective way to replace missing teeth? Are tired of your dentures shifting around in your mouth? DENTURES VS. IMPLANTS If you are missing most or all of your teeth you have probably considered getting dentures, or you have them already. Like most of the patients who come to us with missing teeth,…
Secured Fit for a Renewed Life!
SOCIAL ANXIETY: Poorly fitted or loose dentures can cause many denture-wearers to be socially isolated. They rarely, if ever, go out to dinner. Eating their favorite foods is a thing of the past, and the blender becomes front and center in the kitchen, Samaha says. “These individuals worry their upper teeth will fall down and…