Your feedback is very important to us at Discovery Kids Pediatric Dentistry. We always want to make sure that our practice is meeting its full potential, so whether you’ve visited Drs. Lalani, Alvarez, & Shah John once or been a loyal patient throughout the years, we encourage you to share your thoughts about your experience…
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Xylitol is a naturally occurring sweetener found in tree bark, plants, fruits, and vegetables. The human body also produces it in small amounts. It looks and tastes like sugar, so as part of a health regimen, most people require no willpower to use it. Xylitol is safe (approved by the World Health Organization) because only…
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At Discovery Kids Pediatric Dentistry, we prefer our patients to practice good oral hygiene between office visits. Part of that process includes flossing, which Drs. Lalani, Alvarez, & Shah John will tell you, is the process of cleaning between the teeth to remove food and debris from the areas that are hard to reach with…
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It's a moment many of our patients have experienced. One second you're chewing on a piece of gum, then suddenly you forget to keep chewing and swallow the entire rubbery gob whole! It's at this point you remember your mother warning you as a child that if you swallow gum it will stake a claim…
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