How to Choose the Right Dentist for You

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When you’re looking for a new dentist, you’re hopefully searching for more than someone to just clean your teeth. Your dental health is a vital part of your overall health and wellbeing and your dentist plays an integral role in helping you to achieve this. Choosing the right dentist can be daunting, and unfortunately many…

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Is it OK if my gums bleed?

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Is it OK if my gums bleed? While bleeding gums are common, it is not OK. When you have healthy gums they will not bleed, so bleeding gums mean that you have an infection or inflammation of some type. There are several different possibilities why your gums may be bleeding: You have traumatised the area with excessive…

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INDEPENDENTLY Providing the Right Care for Our Patients

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Dentist Rips Offs: How You Find an Honest Dentist A recent investigative report conducted by the ABC revealed that dentists working for corporate clinics and health insurers are being incentivised to churn through patients and administer so-called “drill and fill” dentistry, according to industry insiders. Dentistry in Australia is experiencing significant change, unfortunately this is resulting…

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Why are baby teeth important?

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Why are baby teeth important? It’s easy to think of baby teeth as being a trial run and it not mattering if they are healthy or fall out because of decay. However baby teeth are very important to your child’s healthy development and from a dentists perspective should be looked after as well as you do with…

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Oral Health Tips for Pregnant Mums

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What you Need to Know and Do to Keep you Smiling Congratulations on the new arrival on its way and on being a new mum to be! Pregnancy can be both an exciting and a terrifying experience, especially for first time mums. There are so many things to be thinking about, planning for and all…

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Why is a Cracked Tooth Painful?

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Why is a cracked tooth painful? When a tooth is cracked it exposes the dentine (this inside of a tooth) which consists of small tubes filled with fluid that connect to the nerve pulp. When you apply and release pressure on a cracked tooth what you are doing is making the fluid in the small…

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Should Teeth Be White?

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Should teeth be white? There is no correct shade of white for teeth; tooth enamel is made up of a mix of yellow, red and grey colours. That means tooth colour varies within your mouth and from person to person. Part of the natural aging process is for teeth to yellow and darken, and if you decide…

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7 Quick Oral Health Tips for Busy Lives

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Good Oral Health for Busy Lives It’s important and necessary to fit caring for your teeth and gums into an already crowded diary instead of putting it on the backburner, an easy temptation when there’s so much to do. After all, we manage to find the time to get our cars serviced and our hair…

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