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Sugar-Free Drinks Just As Damaging to Teeth

According to a new report released by the University of Melbourne, sugar-free drinks can be just as damaging to your teeth as drinks with sugar. This is a good reminder that, despite the damaging potential of sugar, “sugar-free” does not necessarily mean “healthy.”   No Significant Difference with Sugar Free Drinks [...]

What Would You Do If You Couldn’t Smile?

Many of us use our smiles and other facial expressions every day! Even without realizing it, we are using our smile to help communicate with people around us, and it makes a big difference in the messages we give to people we talk to. Studies of people with a rare type of facial paralysis show both [...]

Will Quitting Smoking Save Your Teeth — Or Implants?

We’ve talked about it before: smoking increases your risk of tooth loss, and can put your dental implants at risk. Many of the effects of smoking can be very long-term or even permanent, but will quitting smoking help preserve your teeth or make it so that your dental implants will properly integrate? A [...]

Should You Consider a Sugar Detox?

With repeated warnings from the Australian Dental Association (ADA), and the significant health effects seen in That Sugar Film, many people are alarmed enough at the impact of sugar on health that they are considering going through a sugar detox, cutting added sugars out of their diet completely. There are certainly [...]

By |August 27th, 2015|Food, Lifestyle|

How to Treat Occasional Sleep Apnoea

Some people have sleep apnoea every night, but for others, sleep apnoea may be only an occasional problem that fluctuates with the seasons or depends on specific circumstances. If this is you, having a sleep apnoea treatment that you can easily store and pull out as appropriate can be very helpful. Why Your [...]

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