Willow Dental Blog

Dental Health Blog

Practical tips, dental news and healthy-smile advice from our team in Fresno — new articles added regularly.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF FALSE TEETH

AN ESTIMATED 23 MILLION Americans have none of their teeth left, and another 12 million are missing all the teeth of one arch. As dental health…

HABITS WE DON’T REALIZE HURT OUR TEETH

TOOTH ENAMEL RANKS between steel and titanium on the Mohs Hardness Scale. That makes it harder than any other substance in the human body, and it also…

A PATIENT’S GUIDE TO FINDING A GOOD DENTIST

PEOPLE MIGHT NEED to find a new dentist for all sorts of reasons. Maybe they moved to a new city. Maybe their old dentist retired. Maybe they’re new…

GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR TOOTHBRUSH

AN IMPORTANT PART of keeping your teeth and gums healthy is your toothbrush. That might seem so obvious that it’s not worth saying, but you’d be…

WHAT CAUSES HALITOSIS?

FEW THINGS ARE WORSE at a first date or a job interview than the sudden awareness that bad breath might have ruined your first impression. No matter…

SWIMMING, DIVING, AND DENTAL HEALTH

IF YOU’RE AN AVID swimmer, maybe you’ve noticed that your teeth feel a little more sensitive after you get out of the pool. It’ll take more than one…

WHITE SPOTS AND OTHER DENTAL STAINS

WE ALL WANT white, straight, beautiful teeth so that we can dazzle everyone with our smiles. Unfortunately, sometimes stains can get in the way of this…

CAN SMILING MAKE YOU HEALTHIER?

WE OFTEN HEAR that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown. We’re not sure where that came from, but it isn’t actually true. At least ten muscles…

DEFEAT BAD BREATH WITH A TONGUE SCRAPER

ONE OF THE MAIN things people overlook about a daily oral hygiene routine is cleaning their tongues. That’s right, it doesn’t stop with brushing twice…

WHAT ARE DENTAL IMPLANTS?

MODERN DENTISTRY IS incredible. Tooth decay, accidents, and injuries that once would have left someone with a gap in their smile that they could never…

YOUR TEETH ARE NOT TOOLS!

HUMAN TEETH ARE awesome. We wouldn’t have dedicated our professional lives to working with them if we didn’t think so. There are so many things they…

HYPODONTIA AND SUPERNUMERARY TEETH

WHILE A COMPLETE SET of baby teeth only includes 20 teeth, adults usually end up with between 28 and 32 teeth. Why the range? Well, not everyone gets…