Maintaining a Great Holiday Smile: Dental Tips to Help You Smile Through the Holidays!

With a busy holiday schedule, proper dental care and maintenance can be a challenge. However, taking care of your teeth should not be one of those forgotten routines.  In fact it is better to brush and floss more often during this time of heavenly meals and delectable sweets.  Below are a few dental care tips to help maintain your holiday smile:

Don't over-indulge in sweet cocktails and drinks. Not only can excessively sweet drinks cause weight gain, but they can also result in tooth decay. When drinking in a social setting, order club soda with lime. If choosing among alcoholic drinks, a dry red or white wine is preferable to a piña colada, mojito, or daiquiri.
Your teeth are not tools – During the holiday season, there are a multitude of different seasonal nuts and seeds.  To handle those nuts you need a nutcracker not your teeth.  Biting to crack a nut can do just the opposite; it can crack the tooth leaving the nut in its original state and you in pain.  Avoid using your teeth as tools to crack nuts, open bottles, and bit things that just don’t belong there.
Don't forget about emergency dental contacts. Many dental offices close over the holidays. Be sure to ask the dentist when he or she is planning on taking a vacation and obtain some emergency dental contact phone numbers and locations. One can never predict just when a crown might break during a Thanksgiving Day celebration, or a filling fall out on New Year's Eve.

Our practice wants to wish you a happy and safe Holiday Season! Keep smiling!

Bloch Dentistry Center specializes in a wide range of dental services including: general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening, veneers, dental implants, root canals, periodontic treatments, and reconstructive dentistry.

Call our friendly staff to schedule an appointment at (305)385-5555 or visit our website at http://www.BlochDentistry.com. We want to see you smile!