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Is there a “Cookie-Cutter” Solution for Dental Fear & Anxiety? by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health Of course not! Here is an example; Marsha V. from Naperville came in about 2 months ago. Her dental needs were extensive and had significant with difficulty sleeping last fo ... Read on »

Are Dental Implants Painful?--Man from Wheaton Discusses How Comfortable Implant Dentistry can Be! by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health So what is like to have an dental implant placed? Here is a short video that has a patient from Wheaton discussing how it was to have a dental implant placed, both the surgic ... Read on »

Fearful Dental Patient Wanting an Alternate to Dental Partial Dentures by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health The highly fearful dental patient is generally also the group of patients that require the most challenging dentistry. You can see from the before photo haw far this patient ... Read on »

Dental Humor--Jay Leno & the Dan Band by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health How would you like the dental to really go out of the way to make to have comfortable dental visits and forget your dental worries? Jay Leno had the Dan Band on with a Dental ... Read on »

“Hard To Numb” and “Painless Dentistry”--Naperville Patient by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health They told me to “Grow Up and Behave”Yes—it happened again today! A fearful patient came in for a consultation and said that their last dental visit was pain ... Read on »

Proper Dental How to Take Care of Your Mouth and Teeth- Dr. Roisen Dr. Oz so that Dental Sedation... by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health Yesterday I posted a video of Whoopi Goldberg relating how she was losing teeth due to ignoring her dental needs. We see this often, especially with the high dental fear grou ... Read on »

Avoiding the Dentist (Dental Fear)--Whoopi Goldberg Tells her Story by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health Most people know Whoopi Goldberg well for her many movies and presence on the TV show The View. Recently on the View, Whoopi relates her recent dental experiences with gum di ... Read on »

Is Painless Anesthesia (Painless Dentist) the Work of the Devil? by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health I'm sitting is a 3 day meeting on complications in dental sedation and compromised patients while I ran into this wild quote from the first president of the American Dental As ... Read on »

Is Painless Anesthesia the Work of the Devel? by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health I'm sitting is a 3 day on complications in sedation and compromised patients and I ran into this wild quote from the first president of the American Dental Association back in ... Read on »

Drink Green Tea for Healthy & Gums by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health A recent article in ScienceDaily (Mar. 2009) summarizes health benefits of drinking green tea with weight loss, heart health, and cancer prevention. A study in the Journal of ... Read on »

Drink Green Tea for Healthy & Gums by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health A recent article in ScienceDaily (Mar. 2009) summarizes health benefits of drinking green tea with weight loss, heart health, and cancer prevention. A study in the Journal of ... Read on »

The Value of a Smile by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health How much of an influence is an attractive smile? More than you may suspect considering a poll by the Caravan Opinion Research International of over 100 randomly selected adul ... Read on »

Researchers Test Dental Health &Gum Disease Link to Heart Attacks by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health The connection between oral health, periodontal disease, and gum disease to heart disease, heart disease, and stroke is well known. Now studies have emerged demonstrating ... Read on »

Can Sports Drinks (citric acid) Damage Your Teeth by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health A recent study at the Department of Cariology & Comprehensive Care at New York University College of Dentistry studied the effect of several top selling sport drinks o ... Read on »

Denal Sedation Safety--IV, Oral sedation, Patient Safety by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health The Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation just completed its first annual Sedation Dentistry Safety Week! This is important as patient safety should always be first prio ... Read on »

Gene Therapy for Periodontal Gum Disease--Improving Quality of Life & Health! by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health Researchers at the University of Michigan have successfully shown that genetic therapy can be used to defray the development of gum disease. Using gene transfer to treat l ... Read on »

Oral Sedation and IV Sedation--Two Cases rom Elmhurst & Naperville by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health In a recent post I related about a patient from Naperville wanted oral sedation, but ended requiring IV sedation. Does it ever go the other way? Fortunately yes! The po ... Read on »

Are mouthwaashes safe? by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health I recently ran into an article on a dental website that I thought many of my patient's might find interesting! The article Are alcohol-based mouthwashes safe? can be ... Read on »

Halitosis--Bad breath information for Chicago, Wheaton GlenEllyn and Naperville Patients by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health Here’s a subject I haven’t written about for awhile! But it is very important. How many times have you encountered someone with bad breath? Or worse yet, felt (o ... Read on »

Request for Video on Sedation Dentistry --Naperville Patient by Dr. Thomas Gibbs Doctor of Dentistry

Posted in: Blog Posts in Dental Health Yesterday we posted a video on Comfortable Relaxed Dentistry and almost immediately received a request from a Naperville lady for MAXIMUM comfort--sedation dentistry. There a ... Read on »

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