Holiday Stocking Stuffers
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:27+00:00December 12, 2023|Preventative Dentistry|
As you're looking for stocking stuffers this holiday season, the last things you might think to shop for are dental supplies. Although offbeat, many dental home care products make practical, fun Christmas gifts. Here are some ideas: Christmas is a good time to tuck a new toothbrush in everyone’s stocking. We suggest you purchase a [...]
The Season and the Sweet Tooth
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:27+00:00December 5, 2023|Patient Education|
Food has always played a starring role in holiday traditions. From Thanksgiving turkey to the Hanukkah challah to bouche noel, what we eat defines the occasion (and some of our most lingering memories). It’s no wonder that by January, laments about misplaced waistlines ring out as often as “Happy New Year!” But when it comes [...]
Bulimia, the “Private Problem”
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:27+00:00November 28, 2023|Patient Education|
Not So Private Anymore If you recognize yourself or someone in your family in this piece, you share a problem with over 500,000 other people. Bulimia. Do you worry about how much you eat—all the time? Do you start a new diet almost every day? Do you perceive everyone else as thinner than you are? [...]
Smoking and Still Smiling?
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:27+00:00November 21, 2023|Patient Education|
Say you've spent the time and effort to get your mouth and teeth in shape. You’re dentally hale and hearty. And you smoke. As if there isn't enough reason to give up smoking, your dental health suffers too. Dramatically. Aside from the tobacco stains on teeth (not to mention the bouquet), serious oral disease can [...]
The New and Improved Tooth Fairy
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:27+00:00November 14, 2023|Restorative Dentistry|
For the right patient missing the right tooth, the Tooth Fairy has bailed us out again. A lot of people are missing a single tooth. Until recently, the only options for replacement took the form of a bridge. Dentistry calls this gizmo a fixed or removable partial denture and, for it to fit properly, a [...]
Baby Teeth Q&A
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:27+00:00November 7, 2023|Children's Dentistry|
Answers to some frequently-asked questions: Q: Why do we have two sets of teeth? A: A child needs teeth long before his or her jaw is big enough to accommodate the full set of adult teeth. Baby, or deciduous, teeth are “starters” in every sense of the word. Q: Why worry about cavities if baby [...]
The Hi-Tech Art of Restorative Dentistry
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:27+00:00October 24, 2023|Restorative Dentistry|
When a tooth is lost, nothing is ever the same. The entire balance of a healthy mouth is lost: the bite goes off, opposing teeth overgrow in unpredictable directions, facial appearance ages. Restorative dentistry is all about bringing mouths back into use. How? Let us count the ways. Bridges are partnered with crowns to resolve [...]
Custom Made Prevention
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:28+00:00October 17, 2023|Preventative Dentistry|
Above average? Me? You may be five-foot-four, a C student, never starred at sports. And yet you may be ABOVE average—in your need for dental check-ups. While two visits a year is average, more appointments should be scheduled when either the mouth builds up tartar fast, cavities multiply like bunnies, or teeth or gums experience growing [...]
Women’s Oral Health
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:28+00:00October 10, 2023|Patient Education|
Do women need to be more careful with their oral health? Women's oral health depends on their different stages of life. For many women, these changes are directly related to surges in sex hormone levels, such as in puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, lactation and menopause. Women are also more likely to be diagnosed with TMJ, Myofascial [...]
Oral Cancer Facts and Screening
By Margaret Bobinski, DDS|2025-05-28T22:40:28+00:00October 3, 2023|Preventative Dentistry|
How common and how serious is oral cancer? Oral cancer, the sixth most common cancer, accounts for about 3.6 percent of all cancers diagnosed, with roughly 40,000 new cases of oral cancer reported annually in the United States. The vast majority of these cases occur in people older than 45 years, with men being twice [...]
