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The Grove Family Dentistry team in Clayton is committed to helping our patients get the true facts on dental health and treatment. We\u2019re starting with this list of popular myths about teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. A woman loses a tooth for each child she has.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is an old belief with a grain of truth. It\u2019s not exactly that a growing baby zaps teeth of calcium, as some claim. Rather, pregnancy causes a hormone surges that can make gums more sensitive to infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If a pregnant woman doesn\u2019t take good care of her gums, she\u2019s setting herself up for periodontal disease which does <\/em>lead to tooth-loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, many new moms can be so focused on their baby\u2019s health that they\u2019ll neglect their own. This means cavities going untreated, leading to extractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Baby teeth don\u2019t need dental treatment.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Baby teeth need care just like adult teeth do. A decaying baby tooth<\/a> can infect other teeth and possibly damage the adult one just below the gums. Daily brushing with a smear of fluoride toothpaste is imperative to baby\u2019s health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Flossing makes your gums bleed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Healthy gums do not bleed on brushing or flossing. Gums that are already irritated, infected, and swollen will show they\u2019re unhappy by bleeding when bumped by pretty much anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your gums bleed while flossing, either you\u2019re doing it too rough or your gums aren\u2019t being flossed often enough to keep the bacteria away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No one likes to feel victim to lies and false advertising. But being deceived is downright dangerous when it comes to health matters. Unfortunately, many people base their dental health decisions on common falsehoods. The Grove Family Dentistry team in … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegrovefamilydentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Check in with The Grove to debunk more common dental myths.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"