Have your teeth got that furry feeling?
What causes furry teeth? Dirty teeth! If you don’t regularly clean your teeth, a bacterial film grows across the surface of your teeth. In dentistry, we call this film plaque, and it ... Read more
Australia fails its oral health check-up.
To coincide with World Oral Health Day on the 20th March, the Australian Dental Association (ADA) and Australian Health Policy Collaboration (AHPC) at Victoria University released a world first – a national ... Read more
How does diabetes affect your oral health?
Diabetes is a disease that results in too much glucose in the blood because the body either does not produce a hormone which is used to regulate the amount of glucose in ... Read more
Think Oral Cancer Can’t Happen To You? Think Again.
You may already have taken advantage of an oral cancer exam with our VELscope system, which quickly and painlessly screens for oral cancer in minutes. The following story from a patient of ours will make you ... Read more
Do you treat your car better than your teeth?
If you were given one car to drive, for the rest of your life… What would it be? How would you treat it? Would you service it regularly? Check the oil? Always give ... Read more
Keeping a check on oral health
After years of fluoridation being effective at managing decay, the change in our diets and lifestyles is causing this new increase. But how does it all start? Let’s look at the history ... Read more
Children's Dentistry, Cosmetic Dentistry, FirstBite Dental News, Oral Health, Teeth Whitening
Dental erosion
Dental erosion is the loss of tooth structure as a result of exposure to acids. Enamel, which is the hardest material in the body, is the protective cover on teeth that protects ... Read more
Oral cancer exam
At FirstBite Dental we have responded to the needs of our patients, by investing in a state-of-the-art VELscope© system which will help to detect oral cancer early, providing you with the highest ... Read more
Mini implants
Mini implants are proving to be the way of the future. They are half the cost of traditional implants and can be used in a variety of circumstances. To stabilise a denture ... Read more
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CEREC crowns in a single visit
CEREC is an automated process that creates crowns and veneers in an efficient, accurate, and painless way, more effectively than other procedures that have come before it. Using 3D imaging and special software, ... Read more