Category: Family Dentistry

Friend Or Foe: When A Smile Care Topic Gets Complicated! 

When you’re thinking about using a particular type of dental care item for your smile or you’re on the verge of making a change, you may wonder: Are you making a beneficial choice for yourself or a bad one? While there are many instances in which you will know immediately, there are others during which… Read more »

Smile Care Questions That Start With “When”  

There are different types of questions that will crop up over the years, when you’re providing smile care for yourself. Sometimes, they’ll begin with the word “what.” For instance, you’ll ask what should I use to brush with or what is happening with my gums? You may end up with “who” questions, “how” questions, and… Read more »

What To Do When Care Doesn’t Feel Good

Sometimes, the dental care that is meant to help you maintain your oral health and that you know intuitively shouldn’t feel uncomfortable? It ends up feeling very uncomfortable. As we will always remind you, when pain or any type of unpleasant sensations occur as a result of doing things like brushing your teeth, it is… Read more »

Dental Care: 3 Helpful Flavor Reminders

When you are spending some time thinking seriously about your dental care, one of the things that may not come up very frequently is flavor. However, when you’re being quite honest about the truths involved in what works and what doesn’t necessarily work for you, particularly in terms of your dental hygiene, the way products… Read more »

Smile Care: About Taking The Proactive Route

When you’re feeling like you’re behind on dental care or you’re just not doing your best, it can be easy to give in to the desire to just give up and to hide out from our Pella, IA dental team. You may figure that it’s too late, you feel quite guilty, etc., so why bother… Read more »

What Your Toothache Might Tell You

When you have a toothache, your body is communicating something to do you but what is it? Are you receiving a message that you need to be more careful about not knocking your tooth on your coffee cup in the morning as you take your first sip? Or, is your tooth letting you know that… Read more »