Often, when seniors or those with disabilities have mobility issues, this can prevent them from receiving the routine dental care needed to keep smiles whole and healthy. The elderly in particular could be at risk of severe gum disease and tooth loss. Which is why dental care is crucial, even if leaving the house isn’t… Continue reading Our Dentists Can Come To You!
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Dental Care For Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease
A health condition like Alzheimer’s disease can take a significant toll on a person’s life. Mobility and self-care can both suffer as part of the disease’s larger effects on someone who has it. As a result, dental care at home and from the dentist can become more difficult. Oral hygiene and health matter at all… Continue reading Dental Care For Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease
A Comforting Care In Their Own Home
For many seniors, trips outside the house can be a difficult experience. If your loved one has been diagnosed with a form of dementia, then you understand the struggle for them to complete some basic errands like having their hair cut or their nails trimmed. Dental appointments are an area where those with an age-related… Continue reading A Comforting Care In Their Own Home
We Bring Dental Care To Our Patients
Without consistent smile care, a person becomes vulnerable to excess tartar formation, gum disease, and dental decay. These problems affect more than just your oral health. Poor oral hygiene can lead to larger health concerns, and it can also hurt your quality of life by restricting your diet and interfering with your bite function. So… Continue reading We Bring Dental Care To Our Patients
You Never Outgrow Dental Cleanings
There are a lot of things to consider as you age, whether you are undergoing the process yourself or caring for a loved one. Driving to appointments, keeping track of schedules, even getting dressed or getting in and out of a car can add stress, and make traveling to dental appointments difficult if not impossible.… Continue reading You Never Outgrow Dental Cleanings
4 Tips for Helping Someone Else Care for Their Teeth
Often, people who are bedbound or elderly may have trouble caring for their own teeth. Some caregivers are charged with assisting those with motor skill challenges, the very young, and those with behavioral disorders, as well. Regardless of your caregiving situation, oral care is vital for people of all ages to prevent tooth pain, decay,… Continue reading 4 Tips for Helping Someone Else Care for Their Teeth
Is Home Care Dentistry Right for Me?
What do you do if you can’t leave the house, but you’re overdue for a dental visit? It can be challenging for certain demographics like the elderly, disabled, or those with medical issues to make it to the dentist every six months for cleaning and a check-up. Home care dentistry can be the solution. Some… Continue reading Is Home Care Dentistry Right for Me?
Oral Health Care: An Essential Component Of Healthy Aging
The idea of elderly oral health is not an oxymoron. Rather, it is instrumental to the goal of healthy aging. Good oral health helps you chew properly, which means that it allows you to continue to get good nutrition. It also reduces harmful inflammation that has effects throughout your body. Fortunately, the basics underlying elderly… Continue reading Oral Health Care: An Essential Component Of Healthy Aging
5 Things You Should Never Do With Your Teeth
Tooth enamel is indeed the strongest substance in the human body, but it’s far from indestructible. Your smile faces a number of threats that can do it harm. Fortunately, many of these threats are avoidable if you can abstain from certain actions. As we get older, the effects of those actions can be amplified. While… Continue reading 5 Things You Should Never Do With Your Teeth
Dental Care Tips For Caregivers
As a caregiver, you are juggling so many responsibilities for your loved one that you may find it difficult to keep up with all of them. It’s important that elderly oral health doesn’t fall by the wayside, however, as it is central to a patient’s overall health and wellbeing. Safeguarding elderly oral health can be… Continue reading Dental Care Tips For Caregivers