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Why Thumb Sucking Can Affect the Growth of Your Child’s Teeth

Bill E. Kidd — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:26:18 +0000

A child sucking their thumb is a normal part of being an infant. Infants may even begin sucking on their thumb within the womb, and it is fine for them to carry on doing so until they are about 6 months of age. After this particular age, the impulse to carry on has disappeared, but [...]

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Why Thumb Sucking Can Affect the Growth of Your Child’s Teeth

Combating Smelly Breath in Children and Teens

Bill E. Kidd — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:40:21 +0000

Any time a child has smelly breath, it could be quite upsetting. Each time a kid is teased for having bad breath, they can start having poor self-esteem or other self perception issues. Preventing bad breath begins with understanding what causes it. Here are some common sources of bad breath in children and teens. 1. [...]

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Combating Smelly Breath in Children and Teens

Three Reasons Why Flossing is So Important

Bill E. Kidd — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:48:28 +0000

Have you ever wondered why flossing is so important? Perhaps you’re one of those people who hate to floss, and don’t see the point. Only dentists, supermodels, and neat-freaks floss every day, right? Well, the plain truth is that flossing is important if you plan to keep your natural teeth throughout your life. (And, you [...]

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Three Reasons Why Flossing is So Important

Baby Juice Bottles

Mark Mutschler — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:11:55 +0000

Parents who come into my Portland, Oregon pediatric dental practice often tell me, “My baby loves juice and I just cannot take it away, so I water it down.” These parents love their babies and want them to have all the good things in life. Juice is sweet and delicious and healthy too. Right? Fruit [...]

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Baby Juice Bottles

Treating Portland Pulps & Root Canals

Mark Mutschler — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:05:35 +0000

“Root canal? Ouch!” That is what most of my Portland patients tell me, but luckily root canal treatments take away toothaches to make you feel better. Usually dentists prefer to treat infected root canal pulps before they start to hurt because this is the most comfortable way to go. Waiting for a tooth to hurt [...]

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Treating Portland Pulps & Root Canals

Gum Infections in Portland

Mark Mutschler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:59:21 +0000

A four year old boy from Portland came in with his mother, complaining of swelling around his baby molar. When I looked at it, I noticed that there was an infection around the last molar, next to where the permanent tooth develops. Since it could be either an infection of the tooth that spread to [...]

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Gum Infections in Portland

Flossing Braces

Mark Mutschler — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:48:53 +0000

Keeping braces clean is so important to moving teeth that it bears repeating. Keeping braces clean is so important to moving teeth. Why is it important you ask? To completely correct a badly positioned tooth, the tooth must slide the brace along the wire in the brace only a few millimeters. That is NOT very [...]

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Flossing Braces

Tears & Fears

Mark Mutschler — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:59:34 +0000

As a pediatric dentist, I specialize in children and special needs patients. Nevertheless, a large part of my job is overcoming parental fears. Parents have an incredible influence on their children; both positively and negatively. Kids are so tuned into parental non-verbal communication that even if a mother does not say anything negative about an [...]

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Tears & Fears

Tartar or Calculus

Mark Mutschler — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:27:57 +0000

You know that hard stuff that seems to grow on your teeth and that sounds screechy but makes your teeth feel nice and smooth when the dental hygienist scrapes it off? That is calculus (Greek for ‘small stone’) and also called tartar (but has nothing to do with the sauce). Tartar forms by many days [...]

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Tartar or Calculus

Filling Materials

Mark Mutschler — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:40:48 +0000

When a tooth gets a cavity it must be filled or it will continue to decay and get worse – even to the point of death. What kind of materials are available to fix holes in teeth? The most common material for about a century has been silver and copper mixed with mercury with a [...]

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Filling Materials