Willow Dental Blog

Dental Health Blog

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

TOOTH ANATOMY 101

HOW MUCH DO you know about what’s on the inside of your teeth? Let’s take a quick look! We feel that the more our patients know about the structure and…

STOPPING THE GRIND OF BRUXISM

WHEN LIFE GETS stressful or frustrating, a pretty common physical response is teeth-grinding. Unfortunately, it can do a lot of damage if it becomes a…

THE BASICS OF ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA

THE AMOUNT OF work it takes to keep a smile healthy and strong can vary from person to person. For some people, simply sticking to a good daily regimen…

DENTAL CARE…FOR PETS?

DO OUR PETS need dental care? The answer is yes. But wait, wild animals don’t get dental care and they seem to have good teeth, right? Actually, wild…

CHEWING ICE PUTS TEETH AT RISK

YOU’VE PROBABLY HEARD before that it’s bad to chew ice, but do you know why that is? Let’s take a closer look at the damage ice can do to teeth and why…

STAYING ACTIVE IS GOOD FOR MY TEETH?

WE ALL KNOW how important regular dental visits and good daily brushing and flossing routines are to keeping our mouths healthy, but they aren’t the…

DIET AND ORAL HEALTH

WHAT WE EAT and drink obviously plays a big role in our overall health, but in a way, it affects our oral health twice. Food and drink affect teeth and…

ORAL PH: THE CHEMISTRY OF HEALTHY MOUTHS

MOST OF US learn a little about the pH scale in our science classes as teenagers, but what does that have to do with oral health? A lot, actually,…

LOOSE TOOTH GAME PLAN

MOST OF US PROBABLY remember what it was like to lose our first tooth as a kid. Wiggling it with your tongue, accidentally biting down on it the wrong…

LET’S RAISE AWARENESS OF ORAL CANCER

THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY estimates that over 53,000 people will get oral cavity or oropharyngeal cancer in 2020. The death rate of these types of…

STRESS AND OUR MOUTHS

MENTAL WELL-BEING or lack thereof can often have an impact on physical health. Among those impacts are the ways that oral health can be affected by…

WHAT ARE ALL THOSE X-RAYS FOR?

JUST ABOUT ANYONE who’s been to the dentist has had dental X-rays taken, but how much do you know about the role they play in dental care? Let’s take a…