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When you have sensitive teeth, your day-to-day life becomes complicated. Every bite becomes a conscious thought process. Chewing can be an incredibly painful and frustrating experience. Sometimes, the pain can even affect your mood and your loved ones. It has hit a breaking point and you find yourself wondering…. What Can I Do to Help [...]
Everyone gets a little sore in the mouth from time to time. Maybe you accidentally bit your cheek or tongue. Maybe you ate a food that was hard and sharp, like corn chips, and it just happened to poke you. These sores are painful, and they take longer to heal than we wish, but they [...]
If you are considering getting rid of your metal fillings, you’re probably surprised by the number of people telling you that you should just keep them in. You never realized that so many people had such strong feelings about your fillings and knew so much (or, at least, claimed to know so much) about them. [...]
Summer is almost here in Hilton Head, and that means lots of opportunities to get out and enjoy all the wonders we have to offer here on the islands. One of the local summer favorites is enjoying a “scrap iron” cocktail on Daufuskie Island. The scrap iron is a great piece of local history, but [...]
