News from Dentistry Plus
What Can Happen If A Tooth Infection Is Left Untreated?
What Can Happen If A Tooth Infection Is Left Untreated? If you have a painful tooth infection, understandably you need relief fast. There’s plenty of advice on the internet on ‘how to treat an infected tooth yourself’. Suggested home remedies include hot and cold..
What Happens When Teeth Rot?
What Happens When Teeth Rot? From an early age we’re taught to take care of our teeth and to brush twice a day to keep them healthy and strong. As we get older, we’re advised to floss our teeth as well, but in-spite of our efforts to keep them clean, most people will...
What Should You Do With A Chipped Tooth?
What Should You Do With A Chipped Tooth? Tooth enamel is the strongest substance in the human body, but occasionally accidents occur, and a tooth may become chipped. This can easily happen in contact sports, biting on something hard or being hit by a moving object...
Root Canal Verses Extraction
Root Canal Versus Extraction Take it out or fill it in? When a tooth becomes seriously damaged or diseased, it may seem that the best solution is to get rid of it. An extraction represents a clean break, a fresh start and a blank canvas for rebuilding your smile with...
Dental Bridge Verses Implant
What's Better? Dental Bridge Or Implant? Losing a tooth can be a traumatic experience, but advances in dental technology mean that with the right care and treatment you can still have a lot to smile about. Even if it’s been years since you had a tooth removed or...
Got health insurance? Use it or lose it!
HBF are changing their dental programs which means you may not get the same money back in 2019. Make the most of your entitlements and book a dental appointment ASAP! Dentistry Plus is a HBF Member Plus Provider. Next year, there will be positive changes for...
Use it or Lose it – If you’re with HBF and want dental implants, act now!
Major changes to HBF dental implants rebates from January 1, 2019 If you’re with HBF and want dental implants, act now! HBF are drastically reducing the amount of rebate available for dental implant patients. And the difference could affect you by up to almost $1000....
Dental Implants or Dentures: Your Options
A comprehensive guide to options & associated costs for patients requiring replacement teeth. If you’re missing one tooth, several teeth or all teeth, there are usually several options available for you. And these options are determined by your dental and overall...
ADA Releases the Oral Health Tracker
On March 20, 2018, the Australian Dental Association launched a world-first initiative to tackle the precarious state of the Australian population’s oral health. This tracker encourages everyone to improve the overall well-being of Australians. Australia’s oral health...
5 Myths about Water Fluoridation & Tapwater
And why dentists recommend you drink fluoridated tap water… An important poll by The Royal Children’s Hospital National Child Health has just been released, revealing startling statistics around a lack of dental health knowledge in Australian adults and children. In...
Tooth decay & Aussie children: new poll reveals alarming statistics
Australians are still poorly informed when it comes to the basics of children’s dental care. With just a little more education, however, parents can easily care for their children’s teeth – and protect them from a life of tooth decay, chronic infection and pain,...
Working (& playing), eating (& drinking) in Joondalup
We caught up with practice manager Elley Evans to find out what the Joondalup dental team’s fave eats and hangouts are round the town… Operating for over eight years, our super-popular Dentistry Plus clinic in Joondalup is also our first dental clinic. We’ve had lots..
