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Tips For Packing Healthy Lunches For Your Child At School
Packing a healthy lunch for your child can be a challenge, especially as weeks roll on and you want to avoid the same thing over and over. Ensuring they are fueling their bodies with the right nutrients helps support their growth and learning. Here are some tips for...
Kids Sports Guards: Benefits and Choosing The Right One
Sports guards are a specialized type of mouth guard meant to protect teeth and gums against impact and injury. While they are typically called "sports guards" because of their usage in sports like football and basketball, they are actually useful for a variety of...
We Are a Kids Dental Office That Takes Medicaid
Not all pediatric dental offices take Medicaid, and parents are often wondering where they can find a dental home that does. From the beginning of Crisp and Associates we have aimed to provide accessible solutions for Burlington and Yanceyville NC families. A big part...
How Long Is The Average Pediatric Dental Appointment?
Parents often ask questions like this while trying to plan their weeks, factoring in the drive time for the appointment. Generally, routine exams and cleaning appointments are 30 minutes. Sometimes those appointments veer a little closer to an hour, depending on setup...
Advanced Care For Special Needs Patients: A 2017 Study
In 2017 a group of researchers dug into just how significant the value of specialized dental care for children with developmental challenges. By specialized care, it isn't simply to say that the routine of a special needs dental visit require compassion and care. The...
Baby Teeth Might Predict Risks in Mental Health Later in Life
The University of Bristol is calling the findings of a Massachusetts General Hospital study "groundbreaking" -- namely for its implications for predicting and being able to be more proactive about a young person's eventual mental health risks. This research was...
Research Makes Strides Toward Preventing Gum Disease
This has been an exciting time over the last few years from a dental research standpoint. As we covered in some other recent posts, researchers are finding all sorts of ways to improve dental hygiene. In this case, research conducted at the National Institute of...
Oral Hygiene Microbots For Brushing & Flossing – Dental News
An interesting development for those with diminished manual dexterity comes our way in the form of what researchers are calling microbots. These tiny robots are made of iron oxide, and can be remote controlled via magnetism for a variety of maneuvers. They could be...