For both children and adults, Halloween is a great night to let loose, live large, and have a good time. It’s still important, though, to be cautious about what you eat and drink so there is no need for an emergency dental visit in the morning. Follow these dos and don’ts yourself and enforce them with your kids. Red Bank dental care will keep your oral health in great condition on the spookiest night of the year.
Do Keep Water Handy
If you don’t have teeth-cleaning tools nearby to tend to your smile after a Halloween nosh, make sure to have fresh water handy. At the very least, rinse teeth and keep tooth enamel from suffering too much hardship before you get back home and brush the sugar and food particles away.
Don’t Bite Hard Candy
Hard candy seems like the best kind of candy because it can be enjoyed for hours and keep you from overindulging. But lollipops, jawbreakers, gumballs, peppermints, candy apples, and the like all bathe teeth in sugar for too long and leave them susceptible to cavity development.
Do Eat Chocolate
The best candy anyone can eat on Halloween is soft chocolate. It melts quickly and doesn’t cling to teeth so there isn’t as much to worry about when it comes to tooth decay. Enjoy the chocolate free from nuts and caramel in favor of chocolate with peanut butter or simply plain chocolate.
Don’t Overdo Chewy Candy
Taffy, licorice, caramel, and every other chewy Halloween candy cand pull out cosmetic dentistry, restorative dentistry, or orthodontic hardware in just one bite. Though it may be full to pull stringy, gummy sweets with your teeth, you set yourself up for dental disaster.
Do Follow Invisalign Rules
If you wear Invisalign, the rules are still in play on Halloween. Remove the trays to eat anything, don’t eat with the trays in your mouth, and clean your teeth before you put the aligners back in.
Don’t Skip Brushing and Flossing
If there is one night of the year when it is unwise to skip your Red Bank dental care, it’s Halloween. With all the goodies you ingest, your teeth are put through some serious effort and need a good cleaning. Floss well, brush thoroughly, and make sure every little bit of sugar and sweets are eliminated from your teeth.
Do See a Red Bank Dentist
If you have any sort of dental emergency on Halloween, contact Red Bank Dentistry right away. Some of the most pressing issues include:
- Broken tooth: Tripping and falling on costumes and capes and hitting your mouth. Biting into a candy and cracking or breaking a tooth.
- Damaged dental care: A dental crown, filling, bridge, or other restoration can come loose when eating an unfriendly type of sweet.
- Toothache: Overdoing the candy eating doesn’t cause cavities overnight, but if tooth decay is already alive and well, one wrong bite could create discomfort in an instant.
Call Dr. Carole Sherrod Jewell and her dental team to schedule emergency Red Bank dental care.
