You’ve probably heard that chewing gum can help your teeth to fight against cavities, but is that actually true? It seems like it could be, but does that mean that it really is? Thankfully, at Shores Family Dentistry, we’d like to set the record straight on this matter. At the end of the day, no…Read More
It’s a question that pretty much everyone out there seems to wonder at one time or another. “They never find anything when I come in to have my teeth cleaned, so do I really need to be coming in this often?” It makes sense to ask something like this, of course, because a trip to the family den…Read More
The term “orthodontics” comes from the Greek ortho, meaning ‘straight’ and odont, meaning ‘tooth’. So it is no surprise that orthodontics is the practice of realigning and straightening crooked teeth! Your Fort Collins dentists at Shores Family Dentistry offers orthodontics for kids and …Read More
Enamel, inlays, and calculus, oh my! Dentists offices are full of common, and not so common, words and phrases that many people haven’t heard of. Today, we’d like to give a little vocabulary lesson to help you know exactly what we’re talking about in these blogs. Bite: When used as a verb, ‘…Read More