Happy New Year – Highlights of 2021 – Part 2 – April to June
April
Easter 2021, starts off the month, in an ever changing Covid world.
Children Check-ups Throughout Their Ages series continue with – Part 5 – 18 years old – Lower Wisdom Teeth and Part 6 – 18 years old – Upper Wisdom Teeth.
A less restricted Anzac day for 2021 was welcomed.
May
18 years is a magic age of being an adult! It’s also a time when changes occur. Not only as a person, but more freedoms are allowed by society such as drinking – yeah! and voting – OK?
However some people start to grind their teeth. Is it stress? Yes it can be. However, sometimes it is a change in diet. Really? This opens May with Children Check-ups Throughout Their Ages – Part 7 – 18 years old – Teeth Grinding and 18 years old – Teeth Grinding – Treatment.
Is Soda water OK? is also answered in May.
Passive Smoking is explored as not being so passive.
An update on Covid ends May.
June
The vaccines available now in Australia are the Pfizer and AstraZeneca. Eventually the Novavax vaccine will be introduced later in the year. They are all two dose vaccines. The month begins with –
An interesting Blog Series on shaping up teeth. In a mouth with very worn teeth, we can build up the bite with bonded tooth coloured materials. This is called increasing the vertical dimension. The vertical dimension is the distance between the jaw bones when the teeth are fully biting. The closer the jaw bones are together the shorter the teeth are and the stronger the bite will be.
The first half of the year ends with Do Dental Problems Affect The Rest Of The Body? Part 1. Studies have shown a direct link between cavities and heart attacks. Brush your teeth after every meal to prevent cavities!
Your mouth is external to the body and teems with bacteria — mostly harmless. But your mouth is the opening to your digestive and respiratory tracts, and some of these bacteria can cause disease.
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Happy New Year – Highlights of 2021 – Part 2 - April to June