Moore Family Dental

EVERYONE AT OUR practice feels so lucky to be part of this awesome dental community and working with such great patients! We really do love our jobs! #BestJob #LoveWhatYouDo #lucky

IN THE MIDDLE AGES, the English didn’t understand much about cavities or gum disease, but they did put a huge emphasis on having fresh breath. Why? Because, not knowing how germs work, they believed it was the actual bad smell that carried disease. Almost all dental care in Medieval England was about smells. This practice even made it into the Canterbury Tales, where Chaucer’s characters chew cardamom and licorice to keep their breath smelling clean. A mixture of aniseed, c...umin, and fennel was sometimes recommended to women. What dental problems were they living with while focusing mainly on breath? Fortunately, there wasn’t much sugar to cause cavities in the diet of Medieval England. Unfortunately, small particles of stone would get into their bread from the millstones they used to grind flour, and that caused severe erosion. Most adults would lose four to six teeth in their lifetimes. Things got really weird if you ever had a toothache. Physicians believed they were caused by tiny worms, and remedies included myrrh and opium. Those were expensive, though, so a cheaper option was to burn a candle very close to the tooth so the alleged worms would fall out into a basin of water.For the sake of our teeth, we’re glad we don’t live back then! #DentalHistory #MedievalEngland #FreshBreath

SMILING really is a small thing that can make a big difference! #smile #MotherTeresa #quote

WE HAVE THE best patients and think they rule!! Thank you for always doing your best to keep your teeth healthy and being so awesome. #BestPatients #YouRule #OralHealth

Upon check in and visiting with our front office staff please refrain from acknowledging the passing of Nancy. We sincerely appreciate your care and concern. Thanks for understanding!

CALL US and book your next appointment with our awesome receptionist! Happy National Receptionist Day! #callus #nationalreceptionistday #receptionist

Hey guys! Sooo we don’t open til 8:00 am, you kind of need an appointment, and to be honest I’m not sure we are fully equipped to meet your dental needs at this time.

Progress update!!!

DID YOU KNOW that similar to a fingerprint, no two people have the same set of teeth? Your teeth are unique to you so make sure to take great care of them! #unique #teeth #fingerprint

THANK YOUR mom today for making all your dental appointments when you were growing up! #mom #thankyou #mothersday

HALLOWEEN TENDS TO come with a lot of sugar. We don’t want any of our patients getting post-Halloween cavities, so let’s just take a minute and go over the best and worst types of treats for teeth. Anything hard, sticky, or sour is going to be bad for teeth. Hard candy takes a while to dissolve, which means the teeth are exposed to sugar for a long time. Sticky candy is like breakfast in bed for bacteria, adhering to the teeth and pushing the sugar right up against the en...amel and gum tissue. Sour candy contains acid as well as sugar, so it’s doubly bad for teeth. Chocolate is on the good end of the oral health spectrum, and the darker, the better. Chocolate contains flavonoids and polyphenols, compounds that limit oral bacteria, fight bad breath, and slow tooth decay. Dark chocolate has more of these compounds and their benefits are less offset by sugar than in sweeter milk chocolate. The best candy option for teeth, unsurprisingly, is sugar-free gum sweetened with xylitol. Other types of candy that use xylitol aren’t very common (yet), so it might be trickier to find, but xylitol gum is a great sweet treat to aim for when trick-or-treating. Xylitol not only doesn’t feed oral bacteria, it actually hurts it! #healthysmile #halloween #halloweentreats

WE’RE ALWAYS HAPPY to talk to patients about how we can alleviate dental anxiety! Give us a call before your appointment to let us know how we can help. #dentistsofinstagram #dentalanxiety #werehappytohelp

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION to ask yourself every day is have you brushed today? Comment with a thumbs up emoji if you have! #oralhealth #healthysmile #brushyourteeth

WHEN HALLOWEEN ROLLS AROUND, do you typically choose a costume to scare your friends or make them laugh? #halloween #halloweencostume #halloween2020

WE HAVE THE BEST BOSS! We want to wish a happy Boss’s Day to our boss and all of the other bosses out there. Thanks for being awesome! #bossday #bestboss #thankyou

WE’RE REMINISCING ON the very first scary movie we ever watched! Do you remember yours? If so, comment below! #scarymovie #halloween #spookyseason

SEVERAL ANCIENT CULTURES, from ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire, and lasting all the way up to early modern England, blamed cavities and toothaches on a nefarious creature called a tooth worm. Gross! (But, more importantly, false.) We still aren’t sure where this theory came from, but it could be as simple as that they looked at diseased dental pulp and mistakenly thought it was a worm that had bored holes through the tooth. It wasn’t until the early years of the Age of ...Enlightenment that pioneering dentists like Pierre Fauchard debunked the tooth worm theory. Still, they were kind of on the right track. It’s true that tiny organisms cause tooth decay but those organisms are bacteria, not parasitic worms. People didn’t have microscopes to be able to observe bacteria back then, so they gave it their best guess. Points for effort? Even though their theory about the cause was wrong, tooth decay wasn’t a widespread problem historically until sugar (oral bacteria’s favorite food) became a readily available commodity. That’s why we in the modern dental health community recommend cutting back on sugar consumption and limiting it to mealtimes! #toothdecay #history #dentalhistory

Come by and sit a spell! You can totally sit with us! Please feel free to hang out outside while waiting for your appointments! It’s possible we have a few weeks left to enjoy some fresh air! Thank you Brian LeeMasters at A and B construction for our new tree wrapped bench! We love it!

Not bench stealers! Bench BUILDERS!! Coming soon!

IT’S BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH so we’re posting to say that our team supports all those who’ve been affected by breast cancer. We stand with you! #breastcancerawareness #breastcancerawarenessmonth #awareness

OCTOBER IS NATIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE MONTH so we want to remind you of these four important daily habits: brushing, flossing, rinsing with alcohol-free mouthwash, and chewing sugar-free gum! #nationaldentalhygienemonth #dentalhygiene #thedailyfour

IT’S WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY! We want to make sure we express our gratitude for all that teachers do for their students and communities. #worldteachersday #thankyouteachers #teacherappreciation

WE THINK this vampire might be a dentist. #october #dentalhumor #spookyseason