Design Dentistry

You probably remember when you first got a crown or filling.

Then life moves on, and eventually it just becomes part of your mouth. 🦷

You stop thinking about it because it feels fine.

That is why WE still check it.

Not because old automatically means bad.

Sometimes the best thing we can tell you is:

"Everything still looks good. We’ll keep an eye on it." 😊

That is part of a good dental check-up too.

Knowing what needs attention and what does not.

Have questions? Ask us; we are just an 'appointment' away 😎

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Retinol at 9. Floss still “starting Monday.”

The skincare generation is very good at caring about skin.

We know acids.

We know peptides.

We know retinol versus retinal.

Some of us have products with instructions that require a chemistry degree. 😂

Meanwhile...

Statistics Canada found that 90% of Canadians aged 20 to 39 showed bleeding at at least one tooth during probing.

That does not mean 90% of young adults have gum disease.

But repeated bleeding is not something to keep casually writing off either.

And one of the more common assumptions is:

It bleeds when I floss, so flossing must be making it worse.

Not necessarily.

Sometimes those areas need better cleaning. Sometimes technique needs adjusting. Sometimes it is worth having someone actually look.

So yes, keep the serum.

Keep the SPF.

Keep whatever that tiny refrigerated eye roller is doing.

Just maybe open the floss too. 😏

Your gums are skincare too. They’re just less photogenic.

If the sink keeps turning pink, Design Dentistry can take a look.

“I’m not in pain, so I figured I was fine.”

We hear versions of that more often than you might think. 😎

And it makes sense. When nothing hurts, there is nothing demanding your attention.

The trouble is, pain tends to be late information. 😬

A check-up gives us a chance to look at what has changed since your last visit, see whether old dental work is still holding up, check your gums, and notice the small things before they have a chance to become bigger ones.

It doesn’t mean we are looking for problems for the sake of finding them.

Sometimes the best appointment is the one where everything looks boring. 🙂

So if life has pushed the dentist down the list for a while, you do not need to wait for something to hurt before coming back.

No judgment about how long it has been. We just start from where you are.

It's back to school season, so here is the one thing we would actually change about your kid's day. It isn't the sugar.

If you've ever packed what you thought was a decent lunch and still heard about a cavity at the next check up, this is probably why.

It isn't how much sugar is in the lunchbox. It's how many separate times the mouth is open for business.

Each time your kid eats or drinks something, the mouth turns acidic and stays acidic for roughly 20 to 40 minutes afterwards. Saliva neutralises it, but saliva is slow and it needs that full window to finish the job. While the mouth is acidic, enamel is very slightly dissolving. Watch the clock fill with red as you swipe through. That is a normal school day.

One snack, eaten and done, is one red window. That same snack picked at between three and four in the afternoon is a red window that never closes. The food was identical. The afternoon was not.

Which is why three proper eating times, recess, lunch and after school, are perfectly fine. Teeth are built for that. What they struggle with is the constant grazing in between, and the drink that gets nursed for an hour in the car.

The fix takes nothing away from your kid:

🕐 Snacks get a start and a finish, not an open-ended graze

🥤 Drinks get finished rather than slowly sipped

💧 Water after eating, the cheapest thing on this list

🍇 Sticky things like fruit snacks, granola bars and raisins are fine, just alongside a meal rather than on their own

🧀 Cheese, plain yogurt, nuts and crunchy veg help clear things up

You did nothing wrong here. It's a timing thing, and timing is invisible until someone draws it on a clock.

Save this Post!. And when you come in for the back-to-school checkup, ask us to walk through your kid's actual day with you.
There's usually one window worth moving, and moving one is enough to matter.