Radiant Dental Blog

Oh Snap! What Should I Do with a Chipped Tooth?

June 13, 2024

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Chipped teeth are common dental injuries that can happen during sports, after falls, as a result of teeth grinding, and for a variety of other reasons. This issue may be a dental emergency depending on its severity, but mild cases can usually wait for a few days before being treated. Here’s a brief guide to chipped teeth that includes a few tips for handling the problem and a few of the treatments your dentist may use to repair your smile.

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Disaster Strikes! Should I Go to the ER for a Dental Emergency?

May 13, 2024

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Woman has oral pain

In 2012, over two million emergency room visits were for dental emergencies. While the ER is a great place to go for a laceration or a broken bone, these facilities are not equipped to deal with most emergency dental situations and are not able to properly address these issues. Here’s why you should see your emergency dentist to have your dental crisis treated instead of going to the emergency room.

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What Can Your Teeth Reveal About You?

March 28, 2024

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While some people can read tarot cards and palms, others can take a good look at your teeth and learn a lot about your personality, habits, and lifestyle. Your teeth come into contact with most of what you put into your body, whether that’s tobacco or copious amounts of jelly beans! Good and bad habits can shape the color, alignment, and brightness of your teeth, and in many cases, make you feel more or less confident when you smile. Read on to learn what your dental qualities can say about you without uttering a word.

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4 Intriguing Things You Didn’t Know About Teeth

January 17, 2024

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At first glance, teeth seem pretty easy to understand. Aren’t they just body parts that help you speak and chew food? In reality, though, these objects have more secrets than you’d think. There are l many aspects of teeth you likely haven’t learned about. Of course, you don’t need to take this claim as a given. Your Farmington Hills dentist can prove it with evidence. To that end, here are four intriguing things you didn’t know about teeth.

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Heading Home for the Holidays? Here Are 4 Dental Care Tips to Help!

November 17, 2023

Filed under: Uncategorized — radiantdental @ 8:07 pm
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Whether you’re going on a road trip or you’re getting on a flight, if you’re going home for the holidays, you might be feeling a bit stressed. Amid the hustle and bustle of making sure you’ve packed everything, coordinating travel plans, and handling everything else that it takes to plan a family get-together, something will inevitably fall through the cracks, and you don’t want it to be your oral health! With this in mind, keep reading for four tips for taking care of your teeth while traveling.

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