Admire Dentistry

Everyone knows eating too much sugar can lead to tooth decay, but few are aware of exactly how that happens. It's not the sugar itself that does the damage, but rather the chain of events that takes place after you eat that piece of cake. Your children may be more inclined to heed your warnings about the effects of sugar on teeth if they know about the continuous tug-of-war taking place inside their mouths. Here's how taking certain actions can prevent tooth decay from hijacking your family's oral health. How Cavities Develop The mouth is full of hundreds of bacteria, many of which are beneficial to the oral ecosystem. However, certain harmful oral bacteria feed on the sugars you eat to create acids that destroy the tooth enamel, which is the shiny, protective outer layer of the tooth. Cavities are a bacterial infection created by acids, that cause your teeth to experience a hole in them. Without treatment, cavities can progress past the enamel and into the ...

Wisdom teeth are the extra set of teeth that sometimes you get when you reach your teenage years or early adulthood. You might have heard wisdom teeth removal stories of people having to go get them removed, coming out of surgery and looking like a chipmunk or even having seen videos of people who are funny to watch because they’re still affected by the anaesthesia. While some people aren’t even born with wisdom teeth, a majority of people tend to get their wisdom teeth removed. But why is that so? Let’s have a look. Painful One of the most common reasons why you need to remove your wisdom teeth is because you start to experience pain. Typically, the wisdom teeth start to erupt or break through the back of the gums behind all your molars. This can sometimes hurt and in many cases… these wisdom teeth can become impacted, causing immense pain. An impacted tooth means that the tooth is not able to break through the gum or is blocked somehow. The most common reason for thi...