Boise Dentist Blog
The professional blog of Doctors Dan Bruce, Steve Bruce, Rosa Pothier and Rob Ririe
Give Kids a Smile, Boise, Idaho
Friday, February 3rd was the national Give Kids a Smile day. This is a national program which provides free dental care and education for children that need it. So far, just under 10,000 dentists and almost 30,000 volunteers participated in the program.
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Boise-Dentist.com recent comments
Below are three different comments we received over the last month from recent patients at our Bay Pointe office, which is located on the Boise Bench. "Incredible! I have not been as rested and have not had the resulting energy after a night's sleep until using the Somnomed!
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A brand new smile!
This patient had several problems she wanted to address. She felt her teeth were too dark, too short and she showed too much gum when she smiled. She has had dental work as needed over the years and ended up with different materials and colors in her mouth (see upper right photo).
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Healthy mouth = healthy body (The proof)
There have been a number of potential links between oral hygiene and general health. This blog post is a report of a health survey in Scotland that looked at the link between oral hygiene and cardiovascular disease events. The survey was of 11,869 men and women with an average age of 50.
Read MoreHow an Ally Bank commercial applies to dental marketing
Out of the corner of my ear I heard an advertisement for Ally Bank. They use interactions with kids to show how ridiculous some of the marketing tactics used in everyday life are. I think this is a pretty good illustration for dentistry.
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Predictible Cosmetic Dentistry, day 1 report at the Dawson course
I just finished the first day of the "Predictable Cosmetic Dentistry" course in Denver. This course is put on by the Dawson Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Dawson Institute focuses on functional and esthetics when doing dentistry. When we, as dentists, work on front teeth there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration.
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Sleep Apnea Success Story
This blog post is meant to provide an example of how a typical patient with sleep apnea who wants an oral appliance goes through the process. I will call this patient "Jane." Typically our sleep apnea patients are referred to see us by their sleep physician, general physician, a friend, through their medical insurance or via online research.
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Anterior Dental Implant
This patient had a previous root canal treated tooth that failed and became loose. The tooth had been splinted to the other two teeth. We extracted the tooth and placed an implant with a ceramic crown. Note the discoloration in the other central incisor.
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Sleep apnea symtoms
It appears that football player Percy Harvin, who has been unable to play due to migraines, has sleep apnea. This is just one of the many symptoms of sleep apnea, which occurs when a person stops breathing at night. Although the most common symtoms are snoring and daytime sleepiness or fatigue, other signs and symptoms include morning headaches, short-term memory loss, irritability, depression, reduced sex drive and impaired concentration.
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How snoring and sleep apnea affects bed partners
A recent article in Sleep and Breathing studied "the hypothesis that obstructive sleep apnea/hyponea syndrome and snoring affect not only the patients but also their bed partners." The study used 3 tests to determine depression, anxiety and sleepiness in bedpartners of patients with snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.
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