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Guides from Soothing Dental on concierge dental care, cosmetic dentistry, dental implants, emergency dentistry, and oral health in San Francisco.
White Spots After Braces or Invisalign: How to Get Rid of Them
If you just finished a year of Invisalign or had your braces removed and the first thing you noticed was chalky white spots after Invisalign exactly where your aligners or brackets sat — you are not alone, and the fix is far less dramatic than the panic suggests....
Icon Resin Infiltration: How It Works for White Spot Lesions
If you have a chalky, opaque spot on a front tooth that has not gone away with toothpaste or whitening, you have probably been told it is a "white spot lesion" — early demineralized enamel. Icon resin infiltration is the micro-invasive technique that seals these...
How to Use VPro5 With Invisalign or Clear Aligners (Daily Routine)
If you have invested in a VPro5 to speed your Invisalign treatment, the device is only as good as the daily routine wrapped around it. This is the exact vpro5 invisalign routine I give my patients — when in your day to use it, how to make it stick, and what results to...
Sjögren’s Syndrome and Your Mouth: A Dentist’s Care Routine
If you have been diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome, you already know that ordinary dental advice is not enough. The standard six-month cleaning, the standard fluoride toothpaste, the standard "drink more water" — none of it adds up to the level of protection your...
Photobiomodulation in Orthodontics: What the Research Says
Light therapy for orthodontic acceleration sounds like the kind of marketing claim that should not survive peer review. Surprisingly, when you read the actual literature on photobiomodulation orthodontics, it does — at least more cleanly than vibration-based devices...
85+ Medications That Cause Dry Mouth — and What to Do About It
If your mouth feels persistently dry and you take prescription or over-the-counter medications, your medication list is almost certainly the culprit. More than 400 drugs list xerostomia as a side effect, and the average adult over 50 takes at least three of them. The...
Curodont vs MI Paste: Which Heals White Spots Better?
The Curodont vs MI Paste question comes up almost every week in my chair. If you have a white spot on your teeth — the chalky, opaque kind left behind after braces, Invisalign, or a stretch of dry mouth — your dentist is going to suggest one of these two products...
Juvederm (Dermal Fillers) in Dental Office
So do dermal fillers have a place in a dental office? Well, the same logic (Botox in dental office post) applies to dermal fillers as well in that a smile is more than just teeth. It's one's face as a whole. Lack of volume in lips - nice luscious lips that are plump...
Reverse Early Cavities & White Spots Without Drilling Guide
You can reverse cavities without drilling — but only if you catch them early. Most patients hear the words "you have a cavity" and assume the next step is a drill, an injection, and a filling. Currently, that is no longer the only path. If a cavity is caught before it...
Cavity Detection Methods These Days
One of the things that I've been told as not being favorable about a dental visit is the feeling of the nail on chalk board associated with the used of the instrument (explorer) being used to detect cavities on the teeth when having an exam done. It doesn't take long...
VPro5 vs Orthopulse vs AcceleDent: Which Speeds Treatment Most?
Patients ask me almost weekly which orthodontic acceleration device is best — VPro5 vs Orthopulse vs AcceleDent. The marketing for all three is loud, the pricing is similar, and the underlying technology is genuinely different. So this is the comparison I wish my...
The Bumps in My Mouth…
I saw two patients within the past 2 weeks with the same question: what are these bumps in my mouth? They are painful when brushing as the brush head is hitting them; they feel like bone... And in both cases we were looking at tori (read as torAy). Exostoses or tori...
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