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4 Tips for a Smile-Friendly Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday. There’s no gift-giving pressure: It’s just relaxing, cheering on your favorite football team (Go Tennessee Titans!), discussing what we are thankful for and of course – delicious food.
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5 Smile-Friendly Appetizers for the Big Game: There are few things more American than gathering on Super Bowl Sunday with family and friends to watch the game (and commercials) and indulge in delicious food. But while a Super Bowl party demands super appetizers, they shouldn’t come at the expense of your teeth.
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Women of Nashville: Pregnancy checklist should include a trip to the dentist. Maternal oral health during pregnancy is absolutely critical, so our experts here at Belle Meade Family Dentistry are answering questions to share its importance with Nashville-area moms.
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With the most common chronic childhood disease being tooth decay and 51 million school hours lost yearly due to dental-related illnesses, we need to consider what we’re feeding our kids when the lunchtime bell chimes. Our experts here at Belle Meade Family Dentistry are here to help.
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Are you ready to take the plunge and quit smoking today? Our experts at Belle Meade Family Dentistry in Nashville are here to help encourage you with seven reasons why you should quit!
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Believe it or not, when I was a student in college at UT-Knoxville, many of my favorite classes were in the field of psychology. As I sat after work the other day with my fellow colleagues and discussed how exciting but sometimes overwhelming the future of dentistry is in regards to all the quickly evolving advancements, I couldn’t help but think back to one of my favorite psychology experiments. In what’s been called the marshmallow test, a group of researchers from Stanford University in the 1960’s put young children in a room with a marshmallow. These children as the entered the room were all told that if they would just wait 15 minutes without eating the marshmallow, they would get two marshmallows. As the researchers tracked these children into later stages of life, what they found was quite astonishing. Those children who were able to wait for the second marshmallow performed significantly better in life on a wide array of benchmarks most would consider to be associated with success.
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