Category: Oral Care Basics

How to Conquer Halitosis

Halitosis can majorly impact your life and your self-confidence. But, there are ways to conquer bad breath, so you feel happy about your won breathing. First and foremost, practice good oral hygiene. This is more imperative than anything else, since not only does it keep tooth decay and gum disease away, ti also can freshen …

Do Porcelain Veneers Stain?

Many people turn to veneers in order to change their smile, and many times, people will see a major change to their teeth, changing an issue such as crooked, gapped teeth that’s bee there for years. For many people, they think veneers will last forever, but they need to be cared for in order to …

Taking Care of Oral Health for the Prevention of Oral Cancer

Oral cancer is more common than you may think.While this type of cancer hasn’t received huge attention like other types, it has now become pretty important to include this cancer in the list of ones which the people need to be concerned about.You may find it alarming that 25 Americans die every day due to …

Common Dental Problems during Childhood

Good dental habits need to be instilled in children during their childhood because those habits develop further with the passage of time.In this scenario, it is very important to make sure that your children are good at brushing and flossing. Moreover, you need to teach them about consumption of water in healthy amounts. Nevertheless, there …

All about Dental Sealants

Dental Sealants are plastic coatings that are placed on the chewing surfaces of your back teeth, in order to prevent tooth decay. They are there, and that’s because the premolar teeth are harder to clean, and this, in turn, creates an issue. that’s because the plaque that gets there does accumulate, and the acids that …

Uncommon Oral Health Issues you Should Know About

While we usually discuss the common oral health issues, what about something a little less common.  Here are some oral health issues you should know about that aren’t very common. First, you’ve got oral herpes. Herpes isn’t just a sexually transmitted disease, but it actually can happen due to the exposure of the herpes simplex …

Scrotal Tongue

This is a condition that involves grooves developing in the tongue, looking that way because it’s wrinkled. It also is called furrowed tongue, lingua fissurata, lingua plicata, or even lingua scrotal, or grooved tongue. The tongue can have many grooves or a single groove with one branching off from it.  It affects anywhere from 2-5% …