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    Do regular dental visits make you happier?
    • Apr 29, 2014

    Do regular dental visits make you happier?

    It's a fact that going to the dentist for preventioin and maintenance is cheaper, healthier, and overall a less risky strategy for oral health. Is there a more fundamental reason than this though? Lets look at some other reasons that a visit to the dentist should be more than just about avoiding pain. ''Maslows heirarchy of needs'' is a theory that describes how humans act, and can improve themselves. It's not written in stone and is only a theory, but we can use it as an exa
    • Feb 26, 2014

    Dental Thoughts: Dentistry in Cork for 100 years

    The Cork University Dental hospital has recently celebrated it's 100th year serving in Cork, Hayley and I both qualified from CUDH and it's great to see it going from strength to strength. The times they are a' changin But what a change, and how rapid! In the 1970s about 30% of the population in this country over the age of 18 had no natural teeth. Nowadays, just 6% of people have no natural teeth. The image of the grandmother's dentures sitting by the bedside in a glass is
    The amount of sugar in our breakfast
    • Feb 24, 2014

    The amount of sugar in our breakfast

    Breakfast the most important meal of the day? There's been a lot of talk about sugar in your breakfast recently. The reason that this is so vital for dental health, is because what you eat in the morning will stay with you the whole day. Often, the next time people will brush their teeth is at night, and so if you have something really sugary in the morning, changes are it's going to have a long time to damage your teeth. N.H.S. Article http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/02February/
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