Children’s Dentistry

Remember your first trip to the dentist? If you’re like most adults, it probably wasn’t exactly a highlight reel moment. But here’s something that might surprise you: that first experience likely influenced your relationship with dental care for decades to come. Now imagine if that first visit had been completely different. What if your child’s…

Hi, Dr. Michael Cai here from Pitt Street Dental Centre in Sydney CBD. Most people know that diet plays a role in general health, but did you know that what you eat also has a direct impact on your teeth and gums? This is what I want to share with you today in this video.…

Have you ever asked yourself, if we know that something is destructive for us why we freely allow its general usage? Why refined sugar continues to cause alarming oral health problems? Human beings are not the sharpest tools in the shed, obviously. However, it might involve more than mere stupidity, rather we can include avarice…

If you have ever had that mysterious fishy smell emanating from who knows where? Well, the answer could have deeper roots than you ever thought. The fishy roots of dentine in our teeth. The evolution of our teeth could have originated with fish, according to palaeontologists. A new study focussing on the Ordovician period, which…

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Medical science traverses many exotic areas in its mission to help those who may suffer from rare diseases and conditions. Obscure dental diseases you may never have heard of (or had) is written with this in mind. Cleidocranial Dysplasia is one such condition, which falls under this category. It is a genetic condition caused by…

As a parent, you want to set your child up for a lifetime of healthy, confident smiles, and early orthodontic assessment is a key part of that journey. But when is the right time to start? Let’s break it down! Why Age Seven is the Magic Number The general recommendation is to schedule your child’s…

Seems that oral bacteria has become a never-ending story since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed a new world for the New World – those “…many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving” he saw in his own dental plaque in 1677. So absolutely disgusting and so incredibly fascinating at exactly the same time. One of…

The odds, apparently, of being born are around one in 400 trillion. How that’s calculated is a little vague; although thanks to a TED talk and the ‘net, it’s a popular number to bandy about when the probabilities of existence come up. It’s rather different to the chances of being who you are: for that…

This scientific revelation is a bit like revisiting the biblical story many of us were told as children about Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. In this creation myth, we are reminded of an early paradise on earth where lots of good stuff grows for our nutritional enjoyment. Somehow, we have lost our…