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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Meet Dr. DiCostanzo
    • Meet The Team
    • Office Tour
  • Patient Information
    • Welcome
    • Why Choose Our Practice?
    • Dental Exams and Check-Ups
    • Insurance
    • Infection Control
    • Advanced Technology
    • Dental Anxiety and Phobia
    • Home Instructions
  • New Patients
    • Before and After
    • Dental FAQs
    • Financial Information
    • Patient Forms
    • Refer A Friend
    • Specials
    • Your First Visit
  • Dental Services
    • Cosmetic Dentistry
      • Dental Bonding
      • Smile Makeovers
      • Take-Home Whitening Trays
      • Teeth Whitening With Opalescence Go
      • Veneers
    • Endodontic Treatment
      • Apicoectomy
      • Cracked Teeth
      • Post & Core
      • Pulp Regeneration
      • Root Canal Therapy
      • Root Canal Retreatment
      • Traumatic Injuries
      • Vital Pulp Therapy / Pulpotomy
    • General Dentistry
      • Dental Bridge
      • Dental Cleanings
      • Dental Crowns
      • Dental Crowns with Plan Meca Plan Scan
      • Dental Sealants
      • Digital Impressions
      • Enamel Shaping
      • Fillings
      • Fluoride Treatments
      • Lingual Frenectomy
      • Mercury Safe And Mercury Free
      • Sleep Apnea
      • Snoring
      • Tooth Colored Fillings
    • Oral Surgery
      • Dental Implants
      • Tooth Extractions
    • Orthodontic Treatment
      • ClearCorrect Aligners
      • Emergency Care
    • Pediatric Dentistry
      • Dental Cleanings
      • Pit And Fissure Sealant
    • Periodontal Care
      • Arestin
      • Gingivectomy
      • Periodontal Cleaning
      • Scaling and Root Planing
    • Preventive Dentistry
      • Custom Mouthguards
      • Occlusal Night Guards
      • Oral Cancer Screenings
      • Silver Diamine Fluoride
    • Prosthodontics
      • Flippers And Removable Partial Dentures
      • Full and Partial Dentures
      • Hybrid Prosthesis
      • Implant Restoration
      • Implant-Retained Dentures
      • Implant-Retained Partials
  • Technology
    • Cone Beam 3d Imaging
    • DEXIS CariVu™
    • Diagnodent Pen
    • Digital X-rays
    • Intraoral Camera Technology
    • Laser Therapy
  • Reviews
  • Blog
  • Contact
    • Request An Appointment

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Can We Smile Our Way to Better Health?

Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerAugust 10, 2022

IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles while frowning…

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Elizabethan England’s Rotten Sweet Tooth

UncategorizedBy Adrian LeflerAugust 3, 2022

IN ONE OF HIS sonnets, Shakespeare described the reeking breath of his lady love, and the subject came up again in two of his plays. He sets…

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Jul272022

When to Expect Baby Teeth to Appear

Blog, Dental Posts, General Dental, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerJuly 27, 2022

A COUPLE OF the biggest rites of passage in childhood are the first baby teeth coming in and the…

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Jul212022

Cavities: The Most Common Childhood Disease

Blog, Dental Posts, General Dental, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerJuly 21, 2022

40% OF KIDS WILL develop at least one cavity by the time they turn eleven, which makes tooth decay the most common disease of childhood. That…

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Jul132022

How Do Swimming and Diving Affect Teeth?

Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerJuly 13, 2022

“SWIMMER’S CALCULUS” SOUNDS more like advanced mathematics than anything to do with teeth, but it’s actually the term for yellow…

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Jul62022

Dental Health in Ancient Cultures

Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerJuly 6, 2022

WE TEND TO ASSUME that people from earlier eras (especially the pre-industrial ones) must have had terrible dental health, but that’s…

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Jun292022

Never Forget That Teeth Are Not Tools

Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerJune 29, 2022

TEETH HAVE MANY different uses, from chewing our food to helping us speak clearly to forming the structure…

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Jun232022

How to Get Ready for the First Dental Visit

Blog, Dental Posts, General Dental, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerJune 23, 2022

PARENTS CAN DO a lot to help their child come into the dentist’s office feeling relaxed and…

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Jun162022

A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Dental Habits

Blog, Dental Posts, General Dental, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerJune 16, 2022

PARENTING CAN BE such a wild time that you might struggle to find a moment to brush your own teeth, let alone brush theirs and…

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Jun92022

Time for a Lesson in Dental Anatomy!

Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, PediatricBy Adrian LeflerJune 9, 2022

THERE WON’T BE a pop-quiz later, but we still want our patients to be familiar with the anatomy of their teeth…

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