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The Advantages of Storage Phosphor Digital X-Ray Systems

At Yonge Eglinton Dental, we use a storage phosphor digital X-ray system. This method uses intraoral plates coated with a crystalline emulsion to make x-rays.

How do you know if you have a cavity?

So what is a cavity? It may be unpleasant to think about this, but your mouth is full of bacteria; some of which can be

Getting Your Kids to Floss

Using dental floss is a key component of dental care because it removes plaque on and between your teeth that a tooth brush will not.

Brushing your teeth with activated charcoal. Yay or nay?

You’ve probably seen an influencer or two on Instagram with a seemingly filthy mouth, a big smile and a story about how they brushed their

Five Fun Dental Facts

With this week’s blog we thought we would give you a few fun dental facts that you might not have known. You can break one or more

Halitophobia: The Fear of Having Bad Breath

Imagine spending your life petrified of having perpetually bad breath, no matter how often you brushed, flossed and/or rinsed? This is called halitophobia, and the

Why smiling is contagious

Smiling isn’t so much contagious as it is an involuntary reaction known as mirroring — the act of matching a person’s facial expression. Adrienne Wood,

The DMFT Index: Healthy primary teeth by country

For more than 80 years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED) has been keeping stats on healthy primary teeth around the world. The