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What Would Happen to Our Teeth if Sugar Disappeared?
It is a fanciful question with a useful answer, because thinking it through shows exactly which dental problems are caused by sugar and which are not. The results…
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Practical information on treatments, prevention and looking after your teeth at home, written by our Fortitude Valley practice.
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A Short History of Cleaning Between Your Teeth
Cleaning between the teeth is one of the oldest dental habits we know of, and one of the least popular today. The tools have improved beyond recognition; the…
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Dentistry Innovations of 2024: What Stood Out
Dentistry rarely changes overnight. It advances in increments, and the developments that matter are usually the ones that quietly reduce appointments, improve…
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What Viking Teeth Actually Tell Us
Viking-age skeletal remains have produced some of the more surprising findings in dental archaeology, including deliberately filed teeth and evidence of dental…
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Can a Loose Adult Tooth Be Saved?
A wobbly tooth is exciting at six and alarming at thirty-six. Adult teeth are not meant to move, so if one does, something has changed in the structures holding it…
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3D Printing in Dentistry: Where Things Actually Stand
Dentistry has quietly become a digital profession. Impression putty is disappearing, restorations are designed on screen, and appliances that once took weeks now…
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White Tooth Filling Articles
What Does "Holistic Dentistry" Actually Mean?
Holistic dentistry, sometimes called biological dentistry, is not a recognised registration category in Australia. Anyone practising under that description is a…
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Overcoming a Fear of the Dentist
Dental anxiety is far more common than most people assume, and it exists on a wide spectrum. For some it is mild unease in the waiting room. For others it means…
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Why Sour Lollies Are Especially Hard on Teeth
All lollies are a decay risk, but sour varieties are a particular problem, and the reason is worth understanding because it applies to a lot of other things too.
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Oral Hygiene at Home: What Actually Matters
Most people brush twice a day and assume that covers it. Brushing is essential, but it only reaches around three of the five surfaces of each tooth, which is why…
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What Is Included in a Dental Check-Up and Clean?
"Check-up and clean" is one of those phrases that gets used constantly without ever being explained. If you have not been for a while, or you are choosing a new…
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Grinding and Clenching Articles
How a Dentist Can Help With Sleep Problems
A dentist is not a sleep physician, and it is important to be clear about that from the start. What a dentist does have is a regular, close look inside your mouth…
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Dental Abscess Articles
5 Smile Makeover Options Worth Considering
A smile makeover is not one treatment. It is a plan, built from whichever options suit your teeth, your gums and what you would like to change. For one person that…
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Dental Check-Up and Clean Articles
Mother's Day: A Few Ideas, and One Worth Considering
Mother's Day gift lists are mostly interchangeable. This one includes a few practical options and one suggestion that is more useful than any object, because the…
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Dental Check-Up and Clean Articles
Five Ways to Make Easter Easier on Teeth
Easter chocolate is not the problem. The way it is usually eaten is. Understanding the difference means you can keep the tradition intact and lose most of the…
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Dental Check-Up and Clean Articles
Seven Ways Mental Health Can Affect Your Teeth
Oral health is not separate from the rest of life. When someone is under sustained stress, struggling with their mood, or managing a mental health condition, it…
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Anxious Patients Articles
Valentine's Day: Practical Smile and Breath Advice
If a date is approaching and you would like your teeth and breath to be the last thing on your mind, here is what genuinely helps, and what the timing allows.
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Dental Crowns & Bridges Articles
4 Ways to Manage Teeth Grinding
Most people who grind their teeth have no idea they are doing it. The habit often happens during sleep, and the first clues arrive indirectly: a jaw that aches on…
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Dental Check-Up and Clean Articles
Why Teeth Darken With Age, and What Can Be Done
People often assume their teeth have become stained. Sometimes that is exactly what has happened. Just as often, the change is structural, and it is worth knowing…
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Improving Your Smiles Articles
Gift Ideas That Are Kind to Teeth
Most occasions default to chocolate, and there is nothing wrong with that in moderation. If you are looking for something different, a few genuinely useful options…
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Dental Check-Up and Clean Articles
Seven Dental Tips for Christmas Day
Christmas Day is an outlier for teeth. Food is available continuously from breakfast onwards, drinks are topped up rather than finished, routines dissolve, and…
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Dental Check-Up and Clean Articles
How Dental Extras Cover Actually Works
Private health extras cover is one of those things most of us hold without fully understanding. We pay the premium, hand over the card at the front desk, and hope…
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White Tooth Filling Articles
Choosing the Right Filling for Your Tooth
When a cavity needs restoring, the material used is a clinical decision as much as a preference. Position in the mouth, the size of the cavity, how heavily you bite…
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Children's Week: A Good Moment to Check In on Young Smiles
Children's Week, held across Australia each October, celebrates children's right to grow up healthy and well supported. Dental health is a modest part of that…
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How to Keep Your Teeth Looking Brighter
Most advice about whiter teeth jumps straight to treatment. Before that, there is a good deal you can do to limit how quickly stain accumulates, and it makes any…
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Dental Health Tips for Dads
Father's Day is as good a prompt as any to look at a pattern we see constantly: men attending less often, presenting later, and arriving with problems that were…
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Dental Check-Up and Clean Articles
What to Eat After a Tooth Extraction
After an extraction, the socket fills with a blood clot. That clot is the foundation of healing, and protecting it for the first few days is the single most…
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Dental Dos and Don'ts That Surprise People
Some dental advice is so familiar that nobody questions it, and a few widely held habits actively work against your teeth. These are the ones that come up most…
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Eight Easter Ideas That Are Not All Chocolate
Nobody is suggesting an Easter without chocolate. What causes most of the damage is not the quantity but the pattern: a basket within reach from breakfast until…
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Seven Reasons to Keep Up Regular Dental Visits
Six months is the interval most of us grew up with, and for many people it remains a sensible rhythm. It is not a universal rule, though. Some people benefit from…
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Eating With Braces: What to Avoid and What Is Fine
Fixed braces work by applying steady, gentle pressure through brackets bonded to the teeth and a wire running between them. That system is strong in the direction…
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Overbite: When It Matters, and What Can Be Done
"Overbite" gets used loosely to describe front teeth that stick out, but in dentistry it means something more specific, and the distinction affects both the…
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Dental Articles
How Much Sugar Is Hiding in Your Trolley?
Most people know that soft drink and chocolate are bad news for teeth. What catches them out is everything else: the pasta sauce, the breakfast cereal that looks…
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How Modern Implant Treatment Actually Works
Dental implants have been used for decades, but the way treatment is planned and delivered has changed considerably. Digital imaging, scanning and guided placement…
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Looking After Dental Implants at Home
An implant cannot decay, which leads some people to assume it needs less attention than a natural tooth. The opposite is closer to the truth. Implants do not get…
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What Smoking Does to Your Mouth
Smoking affects the mouth before it affects anything else, because the mouth meets the smoke first. Most people know about the broad health risks; the dental…
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Why Brushing and Flossing Do Different Jobs
Almost everyone brushes. Far fewer people clean between their teeth daily, and the usual reason is a reasonable one: it is not obvious what flossing adds if you are…
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Who Places Dental Implants, and What Goes Into the Cost?
Two questions come up in almost every implant consultation: who will actually be doing this, and why does it cost what it costs? Both deserve clear answers, and…
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Looking After Your Teeth Over the Holiday Season
The holidays are hard on teeth, and not for the reason most people assume. It is not the volume of sugar so much as the pattern: a picked-at cheese board, a glass…
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Are Dental Implants Worth It? Five Things to Weigh Up
Replacing a missing tooth is rarely an urgent decision, which is part of why it gets postponed. The gap is at the back, nobody sees it, and chewing adapts. Months…
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What to Expect as a Patient at Precision Dental
Choosing a dental practice is partly clinical and partly about how you are treated as a person. If you are considering coming to us, here is exactly what happens…
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Six Ways to Prepare for Your Dental Visit
A little preparation makes a dental appointment run better. You get more out of the time, we get a clearer picture, and fewer things need chasing up afterwards…
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Six Father's Day Gift Ideas, With Teeth in Mind
Father's Day shopping tends to circle the same few categories. Here are six options that are useful rather than ornamental, with a note at the end about the one…
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How to Keep Track of Your Own Dental Health
Most of what happens to teeth happens slowly. Gums recede a fraction at a time, enamel wears gradually, and decay progresses silently for months. That gradual pace…
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Cavities: How They Form, and How to Stop Them
Tooth decay remains one of the most common health conditions in Australia, and it is also one of the most preventable. Understanding what is actually happening…
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Smiles, Confidence and What Research Actually Shows
People considering cosmetic treatment often describe the same thing: not wanting a different face, but wanting to stop thinking about their teeth. Covering the…
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Why a Professional Clean Does Something Brushing Cannot
"Why do I need a clean if I brush twice a day?" is a fair question, and the answer is specific rather than vague. There is a physical substance on your teeth that a…
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Why a Dentist Recommends Root Canal Treatment
Few recommendations produce a stronger reaction than this one. Root canal treatment has a reputation built largely on how it was done decades ago, and it tends to…
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Implants, Bridges and Dentures Compared
When a tooth is missing, there are three common ways to replace it, plus the option of leaving the gap. Each has genuine advantages and genuine drawbacks, and the…
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What Preventive Dental Care Actually Involves
Prevention is one of those words that sounds worthy and vague. In dentistry it has a specific meaning: identifying what puts your teeth at risk, reducing those…
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Mouth Ulcers: Causes, Relief and When to Get Them Checked
Mouth ulcers, also called aphthous ulcers or canker sores, are small, painful lesions on the soft tissues of the mouth. They are extremely common, usually harmless…
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Caring for Your Composite Filling
Composite fillings, also called white or tooth-coloured fillings, are bonded directly to the tooth and set hard with a curing light before you leave. That means…
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Dental X-Rays: What They Show and How Often You Need Them
An examination tells us a great deal, but there are limits to what any dentist can see by looking. Roughly a third of each tooth sits beneath the gum, the surfaces…
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How to Choose a Dentist
Choosing a dental practice is harder than it should be. Every website says similar things, review scores cluster together, and most people only find out what a…
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Brushing Baby Teeth: What Parents Need to Know
Baby teeth matter more than their temporary status suggests. They allow a child to chew and speak properly, they hold space for the adult teeth forming beneath…
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Three Common Dental Emergencies and What to Do
Dental emergencies are stressful largely because they are unfamiliar. Most people have never had to decide whether a tooth can be put back in, or whether a swelling…
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Full Mouth Rehabilitation: What It Actually Involves
Some mouths need more than one treatment. Where teeth have worn down over decades, where several have been lost, or where a long history of patch repairs has left a…
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When Is a Dental Crown Needed?
A crown covers the whole visible part of a tooth, restoring its shape and holding it together. It is more involved than a filling, and it is not the answer to every…
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Veneers for Stained or Chipped Teeth: When They Are the Right Answer
Veneers are often presented as the solution to any front tooth concern. Sometimes they are exactly right. Often something less invasive would achieve most of the…
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Root Canal Therapy at Our Fortitude Valley Practice
If root canal therapy has been recommended, the most common worry is not whether it will work but what the appointment will be like. Knowing the sequence in advance…
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How Long Do Dental Crowns Last?
It is one of the first questions people ask when a crown is recommended, and a fair one given the cost involved. The honest answer is that there is no single…
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How Tooth-Coloured Fillings Repair Both Function and Appearance
For a long time, having a cavity treated meant accepting a visible silver repair. Composite resin changed that. A modern white filling restores the tooth…
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Dementia and Dental Care: A Guide for Families and Carers
Caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia means managing a great deal at once, and dental care can drift down the list. It is worth…
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What Causes Bad Breath, and What Actually Helps
Bad breath is common, and it is one of the few dental concerns people tend to keep to themselves. For some, it becomes a genuine source of embarrassment or social…
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Sugar and Your Teeth: What Actually Happens
"Sugar causes cavities" is true but unhelpfully vague. Understanding the mechanism changes what you do about it, because it turns out that when and how often you…
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How to Get More Out of Your Dental Check-Up
A check-up is a short appointment with a lot of information packed into it, and most of that information stays with the dentist. With a few questions, the same…
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Veneers: What They Can and Cannot Change
Veneers are one of the most talked-about cosmetic treatments and one of the most misunderstood. Social media tends to show the result without the decision-making…
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Professional Whitening Compared With the Alternatives
Whitening is the most requested cosmetic treatment in dentistry, and the options range from a supermarket strip to a supervised course of treatment. They are not…
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Which Dental Crown Material Is Right for You?
Once you and your dentist have agreed that a tooth needs a crown, a second question follows: what should it be made from? The options sound technical, but the…
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