We’re all familiar with tried and true traditional braces and perhaps with newer clear aligners for realigning teeth. But there’s an even more, novel way quickly becoming popular: lingual braces. This type of brace performs the same function as the traditional but in an opposite way. Rather than bonded to the front of the teeth […]

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If we could go back in time, we all probably have a few things we wish we could change. Recently, Dr. Travis Stork, emergency room physician and host of the syndicated TV show The Doctors, shared one of his do-over dreams with Dear Doctor magazine: “If I [could have] gone back and told myself as a teenager what to […]

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Most of us think of insurance as a means to protect us and our families from unforeseen loss. While that’s the general definition, some insurance plans — like dental — don’t quite work that way. The typical dental plan actually works more like a discount coupon for dental services. Most are part of an employer-based […]

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