3 Reminders About Cost Effective Care

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When you’ve got kids, it often seems like your wallet has sprung a leak. Every time you turn around, you seem to be spending more and more money on essentials. As a result, you may start wondering if all of the “necessary” things you’re investing in are actually required or are just a luxury. When it comes to your child’s dental care, we encourage you to remember that investing in it is actually your most cost effective way of managing your little one’s oral health. Let’s get a bit more specific!

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filed under: Children's Dental Services, Preventive Treatments

Smile Smart Holiday Tips!

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The holidays are a cozy, snuggly, carefree, fun time when you’ve got kids at home! However, they’re also a time when you find yourself feeling a little frazzled when it comes to monitoring everyone’s sugar intake. How to make this time of year exciting without overloading everyone, kids and adults included, with the usual confectionary go-tos? Actually, protecting smile health while you have fun is fairly easy!

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filed under: Family Dentistry, Tips/Advice

Is There A Young Performer at Your House?

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Do you know a child, who is interested in learning more about life in and out of the limelight? This workshop will give children a chance to participate and dig in to learn more about theater, music and performing in front of audience. You can help channel your child’s creative energy with the LOL: After School Performance Arts workshop, sponsored by the Dallas Public Library, and held at the Lochwood Branch library in December. The workshop will be active, interesting (and even educational!) for all involved.

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filed under: Family Dentistry

Traveling This Holiday? Write A Packing List.

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It’s quite a feat to to make plans for holiday travel, to gather up the kids, to get in the car, on a plane, or otherwise, and to head toward a destination! The last thing you want is to show up wherever it is you’re headed only to realize you left behind dental hygiene items that your kids need (or that you need) for your oral health. So, to make life easy, we very strongly encourage you to write a packing list (or two or three). Need some tips? We’ve got them.

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filed under: Good Hygiene, Tips/Advice

Your Child’s Smile: 2 Drink Dangers You’re Overlooking

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As a parent, you have become the responsible party for disappointing your children with word “no” when they want something that isn’t good for them. You have also become a master at alternatives that will usually keep your kids happy and satisfy you with the sense that you’re protecting them. When it comes to the details associated with your kids’ smile (and all things associated with oral health), this can become a bit tricky on occasion. Today, we would like to inform you of some very common, tricky details to add to your growing bank of wisdom!

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filed under: Preventive Treatments, Tips/Advice

Kids’ Cavities: 3 Things You Should Never Do

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We know that you may be getting very good at coming up with surprising parent solutions that you can’t imagine having conjured up before your little ones were born! In some cases, your ingenuity will serve you well. However, when it comes to addressing problems like your kid’s cavity, you’re going to want to steer clear of what seems like a brilliant home remedy or DIY idea and, instead, come straight to our practice.

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filed under: Cavities/Tooth Decay, Restorations for Kids

Smile-Friendly Fall Favorites: Fun With Orange!

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It’s always worth discussing the colorful, natural foods out there that can help protect your child’s smile. As you know, kids are quite fond of colorful foods, holiday themes, and anything that tends to make eating fun. If you’re feeling out of ideas and a little overwhelmed by the influx of candy and confections this fall season, then consider something that is sure to creates some enjoyment, while protecting your kids’ oral health: Eating orange! It’s seasonally appropriate and your kids just might think it’s cool.

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filed under: Nutrition, Tips/Advice

Check Your Child’s Insurance Benefits

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We are very well aware of the fact that as the temperatures are dropping in our area, you are likely getting quite focused on your child’s wish list for the upcoming holidays, class projects that need finishing, on your own plans for the end of the year … need we say more? Of course, in the back of your mind, you may recognize that there’s your child’s dental care to consider, too. Rather than trying to make sense of what’s left to take care of on the oral health front, allow us to happily list it out for you!

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filed under: Children's Dental Services, Tips/Advice

How To Get Your Kids To Drink More Water!

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Worried that your kids aren’t drinking enough water? Wondering what you can do about this, since handing a glass of water to your child never garners the same kind of awe and attention as when you hand over a milkshake or glass of juice? The good news is that you’re right about H20! It’s very beneficial to your child’s oral health. As for how to up how much your little one drinks every day without too much effort, we have some helpful ideas.

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filed under: Nutrition, Tips/Advice