Do (you let) your kids believe in the tooth fairy?
My 5-year-old son Jack’s front teeth are getting wiggly. It’s a bit early for him to be losing his baby teeth, but they have held on since he tripped on a curb when he was 3.
My 5-year-old son Jack’s front teeth are getting wiggly. It’s a bit early for him to be losing his baby teeth, but they have held on since he tripped on a curb when he was 3.
MY dentist, Jun Nava, always enjoys recounting his experiences in caring for my teeth when I was a child. Back then, there were no special pediatric dental clinics, and I always went to my parents’ dentist.
Around 9 million Filipinos wear dentures, making the Philippines the country with the most number of denture wearers in Asia, according to one study.
The United States’ National Center for Biotechnology Information defines complex odontoma “as an agglomerate of all the dental tissues that are characterized by normal histodifferentiation but abnormal morphodifferentiation producing little or no resemblance to normal tooth form.”
The numbers are alarming. According to the 2006 National Oral Health Survey, which looked into the health status of public elementary schoolchildren, 97.1 percent of six-year-old children suffered from tooth decay (dental caries). It was, therefore, a bit of a surprise when a dentist recently suggested that children might benefit from chewing gum.
Nice teeth, beautiful smiles. That is what Metro Dental’s newest branches in Robinsons Cybergate and SM City Cebu is all about, palanggas. Dr. Steve Mark Gan, president and CEO of
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