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Instructions on how to care and wear your retainer: Wear your retainer full time, except while eating or playing sports. Brush your retainer every night with your toothbrush and toothpaste. You [...]

Eating with Braces Now that you have braces, we have some eating tips to ensure the best care for your new braces. The list below displays great examples of types of foods you can enjoy and avoid [...]

Brushing with Braces Keeping your teeth and braces clean is very important. To reduce staining and decay, we recommend brushing in the morning, in between meals and at night.  Avoid sugary foods [...]

One common question new parents ask is, "When should my child see the dentist?" Here's some more information that might help!

In general, getting kids to cooperate is one of the more challenging aspects to parenting. Part of the problem is that kids have their own agenda, and going to the dentist probably isn’t very [...]

We all want the best for our kids. When it comes to dental care we want to go to the best pediatric dentist (Surfside, of course!), get the best toothbrush, and buy the best toothpaste. The first [...]

The best way to ensure you’ll end up with strong, healthy and capable teenagers is to get young children into healthy habits, and with teeth it is absolutely no different. A child’s language [...]

Does your child often wonder what the pediatric dentist is actually telling her while treating her teeth? When he says “crown,” does she think he means the top of a person’s head, or the paper [...]

Vitamins are essential for the growth and development of children. That is why many parents provide their children with supplements like gummy vitamins. For some parents of picky eaters, gummy [...]

Everybody looks forward to October – well, actually, it’s often the end of October because of the candy-fest that is Halloween. Young and old look forward to all the sweet treats they’ll get [...]