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3 Things Your Dentist Recommends You do if You Have Shingles - Julie Monroy, DDS It may begin as an itching or burning feeling on your skin, followed by numbness or sensitivity to touch. But then you develop a painful red rash that forms crusty lesions. Fever and fatigue may follow.These are the common symptoms for a form of chicken pox called shingles, a contagious disease from

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4 Advantages to Using Composite Resins for Restoring Teeth - Julie Monroy, DDS Restoring chipped, stained or decayed teeth with dental porcelain is a tried and true method that’s been used for decades. In recent years, though, restorations made with composite resin have become a popular alternative. Made of a plastic-based matrix with added glass filler, composite resin

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Actor David Ramsey Discusses Baby Bottle Tooth Decay - Julie Monroy, DDS Cavities can happen even before a baby has his first piece of candy. This was the difficult lesson actor David Ramsey of the TV shows Arrow and Dexter learned when his son DJ’s teeth were first emerging. “His first teeth came in weak,” Ramsey recalled in a recent interview. &ldqu

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Effective Dental Care Depends First on Getting the Big Picture - Julie Monroy, DDS You might see your teeth and gums as separate parts of your mouth. But we dentists see them as a unified biological system, each of them contributing to your mouth's various functions: eating, speaking and, of course, smiling. The teeth-gum-mouth relationship is also a factor when things aren't goi

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Keep Your Saliva Flowing - Your Oral Health Depends on it - Julie Monroy, DDS We often don't realize how important something is until it's gone. Like saliva: you're usually not aware that it's cleaning the mouth, neutralizing mouth acid or helping with digestion. But that could change if your saliva flow drops below normal: your health may soon suffer with your mouth taking t

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Good Oral Hygiene Just as Important for Implants as for Natural Teeth - Julie Monroy, DDS Dental implants are known for their durability as well as life-like beauty. Thanks to their unique construction and ability to integrate with bone, they have a very high success rate and can last for decades. But while they’re less problematic than other restorations, we still can’t &ld

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Dental Crowns for the King of Magic - Julie Monroy, DDS You might think David Copperfield leads a charmed life:Â He can escape from ropes, chains, and prison cells, make a Learjet or a railroad car disappear, and even appear to fly above the stage. But the illustrious illusionist will be the first to admit that making all that magic takes a lot of har

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Take Steps to Reduce Mouth Acid and Avoid Dental Erosion - Julie Monroy, DDS Your teeth’s hard, enamel coating protects them from environmental dangers or disease. But although it’s made of the hardest substance in the human body, enamel isn’t invincible — prolonged exposure to acid can cause dental erosion, a condition in which the enamel’s min

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Put an End to Uncomfortable and Embarrassing Cracked Mouth Corners - Julie Monroy, DDS We’ve all had physical ailments that were more irritating than serious. The problem of skin cracking at the corners of the mouth fits into that category. Both dentists and dermatologists encounter this condition often and have a name for it: perleche, derived from the French word lecher, mean

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Certain Mouth Rashes Don't Respond to Topical Steroid Treatments - Julie Monroy, DDS You've been treating a persistent rash around your mouth with medicated ointments, but it's not going away. The problem may be the ointment — it could actually be sustaining the particular rash you have. Peri-oral dermatitis is a scaly rash with small bumps (some filled with pus) around the m

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Kathy Bates Plays It Smart With Professional Teeth Whitening - Julie Monroy, DDS Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates knows how important it is to present your best face to the world — and one of the most important features of that face is a beaming smile. But there came a point when she noticed something was a little off. “I've always had good teeth, but it see

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Use Partial Dentures Wisely to Protect Your Future Oral Health - Julie Monroy, DDS Dentures, removable restorations for missing teeth and gum tissue, can take a number of different forms, but are usually of two different types: complete and partial. A complete denture replaces all the teeth in a given arch. A removable partial denture (RPD), on the other hand, replaces several mis

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FAQ: Dental Care During Pregnancy - Julie Monroy, DDS Pregnancy is a very special and exciting time for expectant women and their families. At this time, many moms-to-be make careful choices to try and do what’s best for themselves and their babies. Wondering what’s the right way to take care of your oral health when you’re expecting?

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A Teen with a Missing Tooth May Need to Wait on a Dental Implant - Julie Monroy, DDS There’s a lot to like about replacing a missing tooth with a dental implant. This state-of-the-art restoration is by far the most durable and life-like option available. And unlike other replacement options implants stimulate bone growth, a major concern after tooth loss. For that reason we e

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Jimmy Fallon Can’t Catch a Break - Except in His Tooth - Julie Monroy, DDS Want to know the exact wrong way to pry open a stubborn lid? Just ask Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC-TV’s popular “Tonight Show.” When the 40-year-old funnyman had trouble opening a tube of scar tissue repair gel with his hands, he decided to try using his teeth. What happened next was

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Stop Gum Disease Before it Threatens Your Dental Implant - Julie Monroy, DDS Teeth-replacing dental implants not only look life-like, they’re made to last. For one thing, the metals and dental materials used in them are impervious to bacterial infection. But that doesn’t mean implants are impervious to failure. Implants depend on the bone and other natural mouth

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Dr. Travis Stork: Don't Ignore Bleeding Gums - Julie Monroy, DDS Are bleeding gums something you should be concerned about? Dear Doctor magazine recently posed that question to Dr. Travis Stork, an emergency room physician and host of the syndicated TV show The Doctors. He answered with two questions of his own: “If you started bleeding from your eyeball, w

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3 Cutting Edge Ways You Could Benefit from Dental Implants - Julie Monroy, DDS Since their introduction over thirty years ago, dental implants have become the most popular choice for dental restoration. Their large variety of shapes and sizes — a far cry from the limited choices of the 1980s — has only served to increase their popularity. In recent years there's a

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In Today's NFL, Oral Hygiene Takes Center Stage - Julie Monroy, DDS Everyone knows that in the game of football, quarterbacks are looked up to as team leaders. That's why we're so pleased to see some NFL QB's setting great examples of… wait for it… excellent oral hygiene. First, at the 2016 season opener against the Broncos, Cam Newton of the Carolina P

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4 Reasons Why a Home Whitening Kit Might not be Right for You - Julie Monroy, DDS Do-it-yourself (DIY) whitening kits are a popular option for restoring a healthy shine to stained and dulled teeth. They're relatively safe and generally live up to their packaging claims. But a home kit might not always be your best option. Here are 4 reasons why DIY whitening might not be right f

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Expert Advice: Vivica A. Fox on Kissing and Oral health Is having good oral hygiene important to kissing? Who's better to answer that question than Vivica A. Fox? Among her other achievements, the versatile actress won the “Best Kiss” honor at the MTV Movie Awards, for a memorable scene with Will Smith in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. When Dear ...

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