Children’s Dental Blog & News
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Moms and dads, holiday season is under way with the familiar scents and events as we pull out those gorgeous leafy decorations, pumpkins (pumpkin everything, really) costumes, and favorite movies, in addition to tissue boxes for sniffling noses and chapstick. Before...
Healthy Dental Tips for Halloween Candy
It’s officially fall, and that means the beginning of a string of happy holidays to look forward to, first among them, Halloween. Are you already decorating your house in pumpkins, spider webs, and spooky specters? It's no doubt your kids are excitedly deciding on...
Healthy School Lunches & Other Back to School Dental Tips
Summer has come to a close, which means kids are going back to school! This event brings about a myriad of changes to our routines, including our healthy dental habits and our food habits. Food plays a large role in our dental hygiene. Not only does it necessitate...
What is the Difference Between a Pediatric Dentist and a General Dentist?
We live in a day and age, thankfully, where options and information abound. This encompasses all manner of life decisions big and small, and for our purposes here today, it includes specifically choices and options in dental care. If you have small children, odds are...
A Trip to the Pediatric Dentist Can Help With Breastfeeding
You might be surprised to see a pediatric dental blog post about the topic of breastfeeding. However, the truth is, that the topic of breastfeeding applies directly to the education and direct work practices of pediatric dentistry, especially ours. Firstly, let's...
Dr. McDonald: A Family Man Who Loves Working With Kids
Meet the newest doctor to join our group of pediatric dentists in Utah, Dr. Blake McDonald. He will be accepting patients in our offices in Bountiful and Taylorsville starting August 2. Not only did we want to give him a warm welcome, but we’d also like to introduce...
What Do You Do When Your Kid Breaks a Tooth?
The enamel of our teeth is stronger than even our bones, it's almost rock-like in fact. This serves us well in part, because unlike our bones which are protected by muscles, and skin, our teeth are out on display and put into direct contact with crunchy, chewy foods...
Is My Child’s Tongue Healthy?
When your kid colors a tongue on an animal or a person in a coloring book, what color do they use? We tend to think of tongues as being red or pink. Although, sometimes our tongues (our, meaning humans in general) can appear as other colors to be sure. The color...
Reasons Why Restoring Baby Teeth is Important
"They're just going to fall out eventually, so why do we need to treat or restore the baby teeth?" This question comes up more often than you might think, and in a way, it has logic to it. After all, we don't fix broken or chipped fingernails, we let them fall off or...
Is the Tooth Fairy Real? What Didn’t You Know About the Tooth Fairy
If you have kids near the ages of four to six years old then the topic of the tooth fairy has probably come up a time or two (or on a daily basis if they're excited about a loose tooth). In fact, did you find this article because you did a quick Google search for...
Breastfeeding vs Formula & How Both Affect Baby’s Teeth
The emotions surrounding the decision around whether to breastfeed or bottle-feed your baby can be intense and unfortunately can involve guilt or even shame. New moms have enough to worry about, and there is absolutely no desire on our part to make any of you feel a...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Dental Health
It's no secret that parents and experts alike worldwide are concerned about how life under the duress of COVID-19 is influencing (for better or - more talked about - worse) our children's lives. We worry about the physical effects on their eyes and their brains from...
April Awareness for Facial Protection and Oral Cancer
The month of April is a time of spring blossoms, of new life after the harsh cold has passed, sports activities taking us outside, and biannual dental checkups. That's right, your kids (and you!) should be having dental checkups two times per year. April is a great...
7 Pediatric Dental Tips for a Healthier Easter Celebration This Year
It's a custom we all grew up loving, the Easter basket goodies found in hidden spots of the backyard garden every year. Somehow, over the years we've made it seem perfectly normal to imagine a magical bunny leaving candies and chocolate eggs littered about. It's quite...
For National Dentist Day Learn About Pediatric Dentistry
Come in and celebrate National Dentist's Day with us by showing your pediatric dentists how you prioritize your children's oral health. Dentist's Day falls on March 6th every year and while this time last year we were closed due to pandemic restrictions, we're happy...
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