Jaikrishnan R Kakanar DDS, INC
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Our goal is to develop a strong partnership with every patient. When you understand the importance of your dental health, we can help you maintain a healthy mouth, as well as treat the causes and symptoms of any dental condition.
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Heart Disease at 20: Who's at Fault?
What do your teeth and gums have to do with your heart? Plenty.
Periodontal disease (perio for short) is a chronic bacterial infection that can cause teeth to fall out due to severe jawbone loss. It has been linked to life-threatening conditions such as hardening of the arteries, heart disease, and stroke.
Even young adults 20- to 40-years old who have perio are at high risk for hardening of the arteries and heart disease. This is all pretty heady stuff; but if we catch early signs of perio before it progresses into perio disease, we can reverse it.
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10 Years Younger in 2 Visits!
Have you stopped looking in the mirror because you’re not the cute, young thing you used to be? A dental facelift can help you look younger—without surgery!
Did you know that your teeth and underlying bone structure affect your facial appearance?
As you age, your teeth age, which means you could have—
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Winning Germ Warfare
Every day your mouth engages in battle against bacterial biofilm to safeguard you against oral diseases, heart and respiratory diseases, diabetes and other infections.
Biofilm (plaque is a form of biofilm) is a complex concoction of 300–500 kinds of bacteria that build unified armies and forts to defend their turf on your teeth and gums.
You can see biofilm on the surface of your teeth when it hardens into tartar, but you can’t see biofilm when it forms tartar under the gumline. And that’s where it can do a great deal of damage. Biofilm is difficult to dislodge, especially under the gumline. Once attached and hidden in periodontal (perio) pockets, biofilm can be removed only with professional cleanings.
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What Every Young Mom Should Know
Millions of women get pregnant in their teens and early 20s. Millions of women in these age groups also eat like adolescents: heavy on the chips, dips, and soda food groups. Many don’t maintain an oral homecare routine or seek dental care during their pregnancy, but 50 percent of pregnant women have a dental problem that can potentially harm their baby’s teeth.
Children are born with no cavity-causing bacteria. None. Mom’s caries bacteria are passed to the baby when a mom kisses her baby, shares eating utensils, or cleans a pacifier in her mouth.
Caries is the number one preventable childhood disease, and a mother’s oral health is the starting point in that prevention. <
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Healthy Baby Teeth
It is common to put a baby to sleep with a bottle. Unfortunately, that seemingly harmless habit puts your baby's new teeth at risk.
Your baby's first foods are sugary liquids: formula, fruit juices or sugar water, for example. The oral bacteria in your baby’s mouth feed on those sugars and produce an acid that attacks your baby's developing teeth.
When your baby falls asleep with a sugary liquid in its mouth, the liquid pools around those beautiful teeth, constantly bathing them in acid and eventually causing severe cavities. The bacterial infection can result in an abscessed tooth or travel to other parts of baby's body.
Help protect your baby's teeth by using a damp cloth or gauze to gently wipe the teeth and gums to remove the bacteria living on the teeth and eliminate any liquid that remains in the mouth after each feeding.
Instead of offering a sugary liquid when baby is lain down to sleep or to calm and comfort your baby, give plain water. Use milk and formula, etc. only for nutrition. This also applies to a pacifier that you might dip into sugar or honey.
Also, regularly examine baby's mouth and look for spots that remain on the gumline of the front teeth after you brush them. Sensitivity or discomfort when eating cold or sweet foods is another warning sign.
It is important that we begin regular hygiene exams when baby's first tooth appears. Together we can protect your baby's adorable ...