The Ins-and-Outs of a Dental-Friendly Diet
As a complex machine, the body’s various systems are inexorably tied together. Simply put, you are what you eat. But how, in specific, does your diet impact your mouth? And if that’s the case, what should you and your family be eating in order to optimize your food...
Trick or Teeth: Halloween Treats to Avoid
As your child dons their costume and grins brightly with their chosen vehicle for candy collection, it’s hard not to smile along with them. After all, with such excitement comes an opportunity to relish in their happiness and help them protect the smile that never...
Hygiene and Habits 101: Setting Your Child Up For Longterm Dental Success
Establishing a dental hygiene routine for your child is an important duty as a parent. However, introducing new healthy habits and routines may not always prove as easy as we expect, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t creative ways to approach a childhood challenge....
Packing a (Healthy) Punch While Packing Your Child’s Lunch
From sickeningly-sweet lunch boxes to brownies and other snack products that scale ever-high in their sugar content, lunch has the opportunity to either instill a midday sugar-high in your child or a second-wind of nutritious energy. The difference, of course, is all...
Effective Use of Anesthesia during Pediatric Dental Treatment
People, especially children going for dental treatment, need to be assessed thoroughly before operating in order to determine the state of anxiety and level of pain and to effectively manage them. According to experts, dental treatment is a common reason for...
Pediatric Dentistry – An Important Step towards the Oral Health of Children
As far as the health of the primary teeth of your children is concerned the best time to start taking care is always as soon as you can. You should take your baby to a pediatric dental office in Jacksonville as soon as you are able to do so. With proper pediatric...
The Impact of Sugar on Children’s Oral Health
The fondness for everything sugary is quite common among kids. Come to think of our childhood! Parents at large were preoccupied with keeping us from candies, donuts, and chocolates. While occasional indulgences were entertained, sugar was strictly excluded from our...
How Often Should Children Have Dental Checkups?
The first occasion when you should take your child to the best pediatric dental office in Jacksonville is when her or his first teeth come out. This normally happens from the first birthday itself. But, if the teeth have not appeared by the first birthday then too you...
Never Skip These Oral Health Practices
Remember when your mother used to say not to eat too many sweets otherwise your tooth would go bad? Well no matter how much of a mood spoiler it is, it is actually pretty true. But not only sweets, any food article if not completely removed from our mouth will not...
Effective Oral Hygiene Habits for Children
As a clinic of Pediatric Dentistry in Jacksonville, our staff regularly treats patients with issues that could have been completely prevented by maintaining proper oral hygiene. While this is something quite prevalent even in adult patients, children are especially...