How do you rate your finest hotels and your memorable restaurants? With a rating score, of course. You know what you're getting when you see the 5-star ratings.
Your dental health should be just as easy to identify. In the past, it hasn't been easy to understand where you stand on your health, much less how your mouth is doing. There's a lot of factors that come into play when you are talking with your doctors about your level of risk and if you have a significant level of disease--it can get pretty overwhelming.
Enter MyDentalScore.com, a new tool used to more easily identify your risk for disease. The website offers a comprehensive analysis of your dental health, by analyzing several key details about your mouth and summarizing with an easy to understand score. Your scores will guide you in making the best decisions about how to care for the three most common diseases in dentistry: cavities, periodontal disease, and oral cancer.
Give us a call or drop us some email to discuss how to address your scores today!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
No concussions=Hoop Dreams
When you think dental trauma, what do you picture? A broken front tooth? A football or hockey player without a tooth in their smile?
Believe it or not, one of the most underrated aspects of dental trauma is associated brain trauma, or concussion. In contact sports, players will commonly experience brain trauma in a collision WITHOUT a protective oral sports guard. A blow to the jaw or face usually transmits traumatic forces to the head. When a sports guard is used, those forces are absorbed, and greatly reduces the risk of concussion.
When I interview patients that play sports, I have found that many of them don't use a sports guard for basketball, soccer, and baseball. There is significant risk of dental and brain trauma in these sports, but conventional wisdom has kept many athletes from investing in a sports guard.
There are many types of sports guards available in drugstores and sports stores, and those are better than nothing at all. But they often warp, distort, and lose their protective functions when they have been used for a while. The real protection from dental trauma and concussion comes from professionally-constructed sports guards. The best models keep their shape, deflect traumatic forces, and stay comfortable. They are dual-laminate, meaning they are made from multiple layers of soft and hard materials.
That being said, I feel it is important to put our hat in the ring as a dental practice who is proud of their athlete patients. Cascadia Dentistry will offer all Stanwood-Camano school basketball players a custom-made single-laminate sports guard at no cost when they come in for routine exam, x-rays, and hygiene procedures. They are normally about $175-200, but we want to make them for free express our support for the safety of school district athletes this basketball season.
Have fun this season, and stay safe!
Believe it or not, one of the most underrated aspects of dental trauma is associated brain trauma, or concussion. In contact sports, players will commonly experience brain trauma in a collision WITHOUT a protective oral sports guard. A blow to the jaw or face usually transmits traumatic forces to the head. When a sports guard is used, those forces are absorbed, and greatly reduces the risk of concussion.
When I interview patients that play sports, I have found that many of them don't use a sports guard for basketball, soccer, and baseball. There is significant risk of dental and brain trauma in these sports, but conventional wisdom has kept many athletes from investing in a sports guard.
There are many types of sports guards available in drugstores and sports stores, and those are better than nothing at all. But they often warp, distort, and lose their protective functions when they have been used for a while. The real protection from dental trauma and concussion comes from professionally-constructed sports guards. The best models keep their shape, deflect traumatic forces, and stay comfortable. They are dual-laminate, meaning they are made from multiple layers of soft and hard materials.
That being said, I feel it is important to put our hat in the ring as a dental practice who is proud of their athlete patients. Cascadia Dentistry will offer all Stanwood-Camano school basketball players a custom-made single-laminate sports guard at no cost when they come in for routine exam, x-rays, and hygiene procedures. They are normally about $175-200, but we want to make them for free express our support for the safety of school district athletes this basketball season.
Have fun this season, and stay safe!
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