Oral Health and Heart Health A healthy smile is important, but for more reasons than you might think. Besides helping you enjoy a nutritious diet, your smile can also have an impact on your overall wellbeing, and particularly the health of your heart. According to recent data, what connects your oral and overall wellbeing is gum disease. Besides being incredibly […] Continue Reading
Have You Scheduled Your First 2014 Visit Yet? How often should you see your dentist? That’s a very common question, and the answer might surprise you. Where you might see your primary care doctor just once a year, it’s really important to see your dental team at Bethesda Sedation Dentistry twice in a 12-month period. Why so often? Because of how quickly and […] Continue Reading
CoQ10, Heart Health and Gum Disease One of the enduring questions about oral health today is how much of an impact a condition like gum disease has on a health condition like heart disease. But regardless of the full connection, a nutritional supplement may help patients who are struggling with both. It’s called CoQ10. CoQ10 is a naturally-occurring enzyme that can […] Continue Reading
What Are Your Oral Health Goals for the Next Year? In our last post, we encouraged patients to visit our Bethesda dental office one more time before the year is over. In part, we did that because we want you to get the most out of your dental benefits. But there’s another reason for seeing us now. When you come to see Dr. Schlossberg or […] Continue Reading
Use Your Benefits before the End of the Year If the holidays are fast approaching, so is the end of 2013. Have you gotten all that you could get out of your dental benefit this year? If not, we recommend coming in for a final checkup and cleaning before 2014 arrives. Why the urgency? For many patients, a new year also means a new […] Continue Reading
Xylitol and the Holidays The holiday season is right around the corner, and that means a flood of holiday treats over the next few months. Some of those treats will come in the form of pre-packaged candies, but a fair amount will come in the form of baked goods, like cakes or pies. Sugar, as we all know, isn’t […] Continue Reading
Why Should You Floss? Flossing seems like such a small thing, but it can really make a big difference in the quality of your oral health. What kind of difference? The biggest is that it can help you keep your smile free of cavities or gum disease. Both can happen when bacteria or food have a chance to build […] Continue Reading
Glimpse Your Future with a Cosmetic Wax-Up Every patient who is planning to have comprehensive cosmetic or restorative care wants to know what their smile will look like when all is said and done. But that’s impossible, right? Not at all! At Bethesda Sedation Dentistry, Dr. Schlossberg and Dr. Klotz are happy to give patients a glimpse into their future with a […] Continue Reading
HPV Testing and General Dentistry Looking at the title for this post, you might think to yourself, “What do HPV and dentistry have to do with one another?” HPV is gradually becoming one of the leading causes of oral cancer in patients who don’t have any of the normal risk factors. In fact, it’s been estimated that a quarter of […] Continue Reading
Cone Beam Technology makes the x-ray process safe, more comfortable and more precise Visual exams are an important part of any dental visit, but sometimes x-rays help to tell the whole story of what is going on in a particular tooth. We have state of the art 3D technology to help Dr. Rob and Dr. Deb diagnose potential issues more accurately and provide treatment with the greatest of […] Continue Reading