Magid Dental Care Blog

We want to assure our patients and friends that we are closely monitoring the recommendations and guidelines set forth by the ADA, CDC, and the New Jersey Dental Association.  We are committed to the safety of our team and our patients.  For this reason, we are currently open for Emergency Dental visits only.  If you have a true Dental Emergency, please don’t hesitate to call our office at 973-227-9211 to reach Dr. Magid directly. 

• Eat lots of sugary, sticky, and processed foods.  Especially dried fruit like raisins.  Yup, you heard me right.  Sticky raisins stay in the crevices of your teeth like a sticky fruit rollup would and can cause decay.

Hello everyone, I thought this would be a great opportunity to show you what happens when you lose a tooth or do not replace a tooth that has been missing. Patients will tell me that they are just fine with not doing anything about their missing tooth because they are not feeling any pain or discomfort. But the problem is that in most cases what follows is a silent non painful process until it becomes one. So I thought I would show you in the x-ray to the left what can happen. In the picture you can see there is a missing tooth on the bottom and the tooth next to it has started to tilt into the missing space. A healthy tooth is supposed to be situated in an up/down position with no tilting.

        The chewing surfaces of our back teeth have lots hills and valleys comprised of many grooves, fissures and pits. So although they are great for chewing and tearing to make our food more digestible, food can get stuck in these areas.  If this food happens to be processed or comprised mostly of sugar and the teeth are not properly cleaned, it will attract specific bacteria that would love nothing better than to eat those left over sugars and cause cavities.

We are quickly approaching the end of the year so I thought this would be a good time to remind everyone to make sure they are using their dental insurance to its fullest.  Dental insurances, which YOU pay for, give an annual maximum of money that can be used towards covered services as well as 2 copay free check ups and cleanings per year. If they are not used during that year, it will not be rolled over into the following year. Those benefits will be lost for good and the money you have paid out to the insurance company might as well go in the garbage.

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog where I will have the ability to talk about all sorts of topics related to our office, topics in dentistry and just relevant stuff. So this being my very first posting, I just wanted to talk a little about myself, our office culture and just what we are all about at Magid Dental Care.