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As your family dental care Portland provider, patients of Dr. Beck should know that no habit has a worse impact on your long-term oral health than smoking. In addition to increasing your risk of oral cancers, smoking also significantly raises your risk of gum disease and tooth decay, while also causing persistent bad breath and…

When it comes to the treatment and prevention of cancer, early detection is the key between a quick recovery and a long and difficult battle. However, for patients to have their cancer detected at an early stage, they must first visit the doctor when symptoms of the disease first begin to manifest. As a family dentist…

Portland family dentist Dr. Todd Beck want patients to know that your toothbrush is the most indispensable tool in the fight against tooth decay and gum disease. Plaque, a biofilm comprised of bacteria and linger food particles, sticks to the surface of your teeth where it produces harmful substances that slowly erode away at enamel,…

A natural consequence of aging, the older we get the more problems we tend to have maintaining the health of our bodies. For seniors, one of the biggest areas of concern is their oral health. Even though enamel, the hard coating that surrounds your teeth, ranks as the hardest substance in the body, a lifetime…

As your Portland, OR dentist of choice, Dr. Todd Beck wants every patient to understand the potential risks their oral health faces on a daily basis. One of the most destructive but little known dangers your teeth face is from drinking soda and other sweetened beverages. However, the dangers these types of beverages present to…

Let’s take a minute to conduct a little test that could help us close that big deal, make a new friend, or perhaps even meet that soon to be significant other. However, you may want to look around to make sure that no one is watching. Lick the back of your hand, wait a minute,…

According to a recent World Health Organization report, tooth decay has become a global epidemic with nearly every adult on the planet suffering from some level of decay. When left untreated, tooth decay causes cavities and the development of gum disease, the leading cause of tooth loss in adults. While losing teeth is troubling enough…

While most parents of young children are acutely aware of the variety of health problems a child can develop, the one area often overlooked is what can go wrong with a child’s oral health. Even though baby teeth are eventually replaced with a more permanent set, maintaining healthy teeth and gums remains a vital part…

Approximately 65 million adults in the U.S. suffer from either gingivitis or periodontitis, the respective early and late stages of gum disease, and they fall into one of two camps – chronic, meaning they suffer from a slow progression of the disease; and aggressive, meaning the infection as started to advance more rapidly, according to…