When I recently went to see my friend, I spotted one of the latest innovations in the field of dental care for the first time. Initially, I though that I was looking at an electric toothbrush, but then I noticed the attached water tank which did not fit into the picture. Lateron, I realized that it had been a waterpick – a fairly novel device ...
It starts very early on in life and, ideally, one should never stop doing it to successfully prevent annoying health problems and having doctors handle sharp instruments inside one’s mouth – of course I am talking about regular dental care!
Dental implant or dental bridge – or maybe stick with the tooth gap? When someone has to ask him- or herself this question, most likely one of the following two scenarios is true:
A. Bad accident results in damage inside and around the mouth that requires professional attention
B. Advancing age leads to a continuously decreasing amount of healthy teeth
Most children get saddled with retainers very early on in life and then have to wear them every single night for several months to make sure that their permanent teeth grow out the right way. Children who were not “gifted” with retainers can either spend the rest of their lives looking at their crooked smiles in their mirrors or ...
After a long day at work and an even longer work week, it was finally Friday evening – Hooray! Alright then, off to a few cold ones with a few colleagues to let off some steam. I had already noticed it a few days earlier. On the way to the bar, it became even more noticeable. And once we sat down for a chat while waiting for our drinks, it only became worse ...
The new year had just started, Vienna had finally seen its first real snowfall of the winter season, and the “Wiener Eistraum” ice skating rink in front of city hall had just opened its gates. “Alright then – let’s go have a Holiday on Ice!”
You brush your teeth twice, or maybe even three times, every day and always use dental floss as well – and yet, that pesky dental calculus keeps building up on the teeth’s surface ...
On a beautiful Wednesday morning in the late spring earlier this year, I was on the way to my next regular dental checkup. Though I had never really had any issues during previous visits, I still felt this weird feeling overcome me ever so slowly ...