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Your Child’s Dental Safety
Your Child’s Dental Safety

Children's Dentistry

Your Child’s Dental Safety

Child Safety is No Accident From their first crawl, children are prone to accidents. Dental injuries may be more common during those early adventuresome years, but the risk to teeth doesn't diminish as children grow older. The best way to avoid dental injuries is to anticipate them and take precautions. Here are some guidelines that may help parents, grandparents, teachers, and childcare providers prevent dental injuries to children: Protect children from falls which can lead to dental injuries. Put safety gates across stairways to [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2019-01-29T08:00:20-08:00January 29, 2019|Children's Dentistry|

Your Kids & Their Teeth
Your Kids & Their Teeth

Children's Dentistry

Your Kids & Their Teeth

As modern dentistry continues to improve, children can expect entirely different dental experiences than Mom and Dad remember from childhood. Fluorides and sealants have virtually eliminated rampant decay problems. For kids nowadays, dental care is be a piece of cake. Baby teeth do grown-up duty Primary teeth work hard. Those 20 teeth pave the way for permanent teeth. If they're lost prematurely, replacement teeth can crop up in unexpected—and unhealthy—places. Keep every tooth you can in that young noggin. Accidents Happen Despite parent's best [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2018-08-21T00:00:43-07:00August 21, 2018|Children's Dentistry|

Nighttime Grinding
Nighttime Grinding

Preventative Dentistry

Nighttime Grinding

And the Stress Factor Dentists and researchers aren't completely agreed about the cause of nightly tooth-grinding, or bruxism. But they are aligned on two points: at least partly, it's related to daily stress, and it's happening to more people. It may sound funny, but it's no joke: without food to absorb the impact, teeth can grind by night at ten times the force required to chew a steak, researchers estimate. The result: front teeth can be worn nearly to the gumline while molars can [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2018-03-13T08:00:35-07:00March 13, 2018|Preventative Dentistry|