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Enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner Without Your Wisdom Teeth
Updated: 1/28/2020 Some of the best YouTube videos have come from someone being filmed right after he or she wakes up from having his wisdom teeth removed. That being said, removing your wisdom teeth can be stressful – from trying to schedule the procedure to having...
Fun, Healthy Halloween Ideas for Your Kids
Updated: 1/28/2020 We all want our kids to have fun on Halloween. Didn’t we, growing up? Trick-or-treating, going to costume parties, toilet-papering the neighbor’s house (Oops…did I just admit to that? You might want to discourage this last one!). However, we also...
Kids’ Dental Care in the Movies
Updated: 1/28/2020 It’s now October, which means your kids are probably getting pretty excited about Halloween. What are they going to be this year? As you help them search for a great costume, don't let them forget the importance of proper, daily dental care. Here...
Don’t Become Violet Beauregarde! Healthier Gum Chewing Habits
Updated: 1/29/2020 Remember Violet Beauregarde from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? While your child surely isn’t bound to the fate of Violet Beauregarde—being rolled away by Oompa-Loopas for blowing up like a balloon after eating a tempting piece of bubble...
The Cost of Dental Care for Kids
Updated: 1/30/2020 If you're a parent or thinking about becoming one, then you're probably aware of the costs involved with raising a child. Aside from food, clothes and other living essentials, you need to take into consideration health expenses, including both...
Which States Have the Worst Oral Health?
Updated: 1/31/2020 You may be brushing your teeth every day and visiting the dentist regularly, but are the people around you doing the same? According to a 2012 Bloomberg Study, certain states have the worst oral health compared to others. Where does your state...
Best Celebrity Smile Makeovers
While we won’t be able to mention every celebrity who has had cosmetic dental work done, because that would clearly take too much time, here are 5 celebrities we believe have had the best celebrity smile makeovers, one of which may shock you!
Good vs. Bad Dentistry: How to Know the Difference
When it comes to finding a dentist, or even evaluating the one you have, how do you differentiate between the good ones and the bad? We've offered some helpful tips below to help in your evaluation. Keep in mind though, no dentist office will be perfect, but you...
A Breakdown of the Best Kid’s Toothbrushes
Updated: 2/4/2020 February is National Children’s Dental Health Month—a holiday founded to raise awareness about the importance of oral health for kids. In honor of this, we've put together a guide for the best children’s toothbrushes in 2014. The toothbrush is a key...
Dental Insurance and Dental Plans: What’s the Difference?
Updated: 2/5/2020 With all of the talk about health care and dental, the terms dental insurance and dental plans get thrown around quite a bit. But if you’re honest with yourself, do you really know the difference? It’s important to understand that these two terms are...
A Million-Dollar Smile: What Does It Really Cost?
Updated: 2/5/2020 There are several methods of getting that perfect smile using cosmetic dentistry. Some such methods include: teeth whitening, fillings, bonding, veneers, implants and braces. But how much does it really cost? Teeth Whitening This is probably one of...
Preventing Diseases With Regular Dental Checkups
Updated: 2/5/2020 Why do dentists want to see us every six months, or sometimes more than that? Regular dental checkups are vital for helping us maintain healthy teeth and gums and receiving regular screening for gum disease and other serious oral health problems....
Company Halloween Costumes of 2013
Find yourself lost in a sea of ideas for Halloween costumes each year? The ideas seem limitless. At one point in time, choosing a costume was easy, right? Ghosts, goblins, witches or wizards… Now we have so many characters to choose from, from TV shows, movies, books,...
Pumpkin-Carving Contest
Halloween is just around the corner and here at 1dental we found an excellent way to celebrate—a pumpkin-carving contest! Each department was given a few days to carve their pumpkin and then we brought in judges to decide which one was the best. The judges thought all...
Does Obamacare Cover Dental?
The government shutdown has ended and it’s time for all of us to look ahead toward the changes coming our way in 2014 concerning, most significantly, Obamacare—officially called the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Open enrollment for the ACA began October 1, 2013, but with...
