Make Your Smile Bright This Holiday Season with LANAP Laser Gum Therapy

The holiday season is a time for joy, laughter, and delicious treats. But amidst the festivities, it's easy to neglect our oral health. This year, let's commit to keeping our smiles healthy and bright with LANAP laser gum therapy.

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LANAP – Your Ally Against Gum Disease:

• Fast and Effective: LANAP removes bacteria from gum pockets and stimulates bone regeneration, significantly reducing inflammation and promoting healing.
• Minimal Discomfort: Unlike traditional surgery, LANAP is minimally invasive, resulting in minimal pain, bleeding, and swelling.
• Faster Recovery: With LANAP, you can recover quickly and get back to enjoying the holidays without downtime.
• Improved Oral Health: LANAP helps prevent gum disease and promotes long-term oral health, saving your teeth and improving your overall well-being.

Tips for a Healthy Gums during the Holidays:

• Maintain your dental routine: Brush twice a day for two minutes and floss once daily, even amidst the holiday rush.
• Make smart snack choices: Opt for healthier options like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains.
• Limit sugary beverages: Choose water over sugary drinks like sodas, lattes, and hot chocolate.
• Protect your teeth: Wear a mouthguard if you participate in winter sports to avoid injuries.

Give Yourself the Gift of a Healthy Smile:

By incorporating LANAP laser gum therapy and these simple tips into your holiday routine, you can ensure a healthy and happy smile throughout the season. Remember, investing in your oral health is an investment in your overall well-being.

It’s the holiday season! With so much to do and so much going on, you want to be at your best. We have some ideas to help make your season bright with a few easy tips for a healthy smile.

• Keep Your Smile Merry and Bright

A lot is going on during the holidays. Visiting friends. Traveling to see family. Parties and get-togethers. With all the enjoyable festivities on your holiday schedule, you might be tempted to overlook brushing or flossing. But, please don’t!

Many of our favorite holiday traditions and activities are centered around sharing good company, good cheer—and good food.

Indulging in more treats throughout the day, especially sugars and simple carbs, provides more fuel for the bacteria in plaque. These bacteria produce acids that weaken tooth enamel—the first stage of tooth decay. Plaque buildup also irritates the gums, causing swelling, redness, pain, bleeding, and chronic bad breath.

How to avoid these not-so-jolly consequences? Make time in your holiday schedule for dental care! Brushing twice a day for two minutes and flossing once each day removes plaque buildup and helps prevent cavities and gum disease.

• Holiday Snacks—Naughty or Nice?

We’re no Scrooges—enjoying holiday treats is one of the ways we celebrate. But since we’re trying to prevent a plaque buffet of sugar and simple carbs, it’s a good idea to add some healthier foods to the mix.

Whether it’s platters of snacks around the game table or a stylish hors d’oeuvre array, don’t forget to add nutritional, dental-friendly items to your plate. Options such as fresh fruits and vegetables, cheeses, nuts, and whole grain bread and crackers are great partners for more indulgent selections because they’re lower in added sugars and provide vitamins and minerals to strengthen teeth and gums.

And from the candy bar? Hard candies and candy canes make our naughty list because they take a long time to dissolve while bathing your teeth in sugar. So do caramels, toffees, and gumdrops, which stick between teeth and gums. Soft chocolates? A much nicer choice, because they are more easily rinsed away by saliva or a drink of water. Which leads us to . . .

• A Toast to Your (Dental) Health!

The holidays offer some of our favorite seasonal beverages. But spiced lattes, mochas, and hot chocolate can be full of sugar.

The answer? Enjoy in moderation, and enjoy with a glass of water. Water washes away sugars neutralizes acids, helps increase saliva flow for tooth and gum health, hydrates, and, when it’s fluoridated, protects and repairs your enamel. That’s a lot of gifts in one convenient package!

• Dashing through the Snow?

If you’re taking to the slopes, or the hills, or the rink for a little holiday exercise, don’t forget to protect your teeth and mouth. It’s not just sports like football and hockey that cause dental injuries—it’s any sport where you can fall or make contact with someone or something.

If you don’t have a mouthguard, they’re available at sporting goods stores in stock sizes or models that can be molded to your teeth. A custom mouthguard from our Fort Lauderdale, Florida office is more comfortable, fits better, and protects you better. This is a perfect gift to give yourself so you can take advantage of all those cold-weather sports with confidence.

We all look forward to holiday surprises—but not when they take the form of cavities, gum disease, or dental injuries! In the flurry of holiday activities, keep up with your regular dental care, and you’ll be looking forward to a new year filled with happy and healthy smiles.