Let’s talk dental insurance. Do you know that most dental plan benefits reset every year? If you didn’t know, now you know. Unlike other health insurance plans with rollovers, most dental plans are structured around the calendar year. That means once the New Year celebrations begin, your dental [...]
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It’s with heavy hearts that we share about 33-year-old friend, mother, wife and Registered Dental Assistant at SLO Smiles, Brittany Hunt, and her recent diagnosis of stage 4 cervical cancer. What started out as relentless back pain, eventually turned into a frightening diagnosis that has left [...]
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So fall is officially here, which means cookies, candy corn, and pumpkin-spice everything. It’s an exciting sugar-packed time of year for your little ones, but trick or treating isn’t the only thing worth celebrating—October is National Dental Hygiene month! It’s no secret that oral health i [...]
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LET’S TALK INVISALIGN Curious about Invisalign? Listen up! Our friendly San Luis Obispo dentists are here to set things straight when it comes to this innovative treatment. THE INVISALIGN TREATMENT IN 5 STEPS So you’ve finally decided to invest in the smile you deserve—it’s about time! Aft [...]
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Curious about tongue scrapers? This blog is for you. Our SLO Smiles dentists are busting common myths about this popular practice. What is tongue scraping? Tongue scraping involves taking a small tool, either a wire or brush, and scraping buildup off your tongue (yuck!) as a part of your normal brus [...]
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