We all have innocent bad habits, but when they involve our teeth a mere bad habit can quickly become a big problem. In order to prevent some serious damage to your pearly whites, Western Dental’s Elk Grove dentists suggest avoiding these four miniscule, yet destructive bad habits:
Using your teeth to open anything and everything
Your teeth are not tools! Well, they are but they were never intended to take the place of scissors or bottle openers. Stop using your teeth to open bottles and rip open packaging just because it seems like a convenient shortcut. You risk fracturing a tooth or damaging a filling when you do that. Western Dental’s team of dentists in Elk Grove has had to fix their fair share of tooth turmoil due to untraditional bottle opening methods, and in every case the patient has agreed that it would have just been easier to take the extra couple of seconds to locate a bottle opener. Read mor from this article: http://bit.ly/2lJVoRG
