by Dr. Jill Tetrick, DDS | May 7, 2018 | Dental Care
Understanding the Connection Between Sleep Apnea and Dental Care Sometimes patients are surprised that dentist ask them about the quality of their sleep. Many Americans don’t get enough sleep they need, and some don’t know why. Snoring and sleep disturbances are often...
by Dr. Jill Tetrick, DDS | Apr 16, 2018 | Dental Care
Under Stress? Examine Your Mouth Stress is prevalent and is encountered in different ways. Short-term stress is more common and often viewed as helpful. It can stimulate creative thinking and enhance problem-solving skills and poses little risk to the overall health....
by Dr. Jill Tetrick, DDS | Apr 5, 2018 | Dental Care
Know What Your Teeth are Telling You Beginning cavities are notoriously difficult to spot by the untrained eye, hence, they are considered a wide-spread condition. Unattended cavities can cause the spread of tooth decay and tooth loss with attendant gum disease and...
by Dr. Jill Tetrick, DDS | Mar 23, 2018 | Dental Care
Where The Problem Lies Without a doctor or dentist’s guidance, some parents don’t follow national recommendations for early dental care for their children, a new national poll discovers. According to a recent C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s...
by Dr. Jill Tetrick, DDS | Mar 9, 2018 | Dental Care
New Study Proves the Connection Studies have shown that dental health problems, like periodontal disease, are related to inflammation, diabetes, smoking and a not-so-healthy diet, according to a study, out of the department of epidemiology at Tulane University in New...
by Dr. Jill Tetrick, DDS | Feb 23, 2018 | Dental Care
Your Brain and Your Tooth Ache Most people are so tuned in to pain they exactly know where it hurts – a knife cut in the middle finger or a splinter caught under the thumb nail, even if the fingers involved are near each other. It is not so readily easy with toothache...
