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Sports Drinks and Your Teeth

February 8th, 2010. Published under dental pain, healthy teeth, tooth decay. No Comments.

Sports drinks contain more sugar than many cola products and cause greater enamel damage.

Continuous sipping of sports drinks throughout the day continually bathes teeth in sugar, a perfect breeding ground for plaque.

Heavy consumption of sports drinks is linked to tooth decay.

Soda and Your Teeth

February 4th, 2010. Published under dental pain, healthy teeth, tooth decay. No Comments.

One 12-ounce can of soda contains between 10-12 teaspoons of sugar!

Acids in soft drinks begin to dissolve tooth enamel in only 20 minutes.

“Sugar free” or diet sodas also contain acid that can damage your teeth.

Heavy soda consumption is linked to tooth decay.

STA…What’s new in dental injections

March 11th, 2009. Published under cosmetic dentistry, dental pain, painfree dentistry. No Comments.

Anesthetic injections for dental procedures have not really changed in 100 years…Until now. Milestone Scientific introduces the STA, single tooth anesthesia. The computer confirms proper needle placement, uses low-pressure delivery, allowing a greater volume to be administered- thus a more predictable, precise, faster and non-threatening injection, with no collateral numbing! All of this = Happy Patients!sta-0022