Just wanted to remind you that the October special at Laraway Family Dentistry is… Make a $5 Donation in Office towards Breast Cancer and receive Free x-rays, exam, and cleaning!
For more information, go HERE!
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Just wanted to remind you that the October special at Laraway Family Dentistry is… Make a $5 Donation in Office towards Breast Cancer and receive Free x-rays, exam, and cleaning!
For more information, go HERE!
By Tiffany 2 Comments By clicking on our links, we might make a SMALL commission - Thanks for the support! See our full DISCLOSURE here.
If you are a local business owner, you should check out the September monthly special at Laraway Family Dentistry. You will get free x-rays, exam, and cleaning for local business owners!
Like I have said before, this is who we use and have been EXTREMELY happy. We also don’t have dental insurance and have found them the most reasonable and professional in the area. Uninsured kids get free cleanings and x-rays as well. Just FYI.
Laraway’s also provide emergency dental care on the weekends and nights when most accidents seem to happen. For more information and to make an appointment call 936 – 321 – 1477 or go HERE to their site.
* Make sure to mention MyLitter (because it never hurts to kiss your dentists behind a little!)
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Just a heads up that the July special for MyLitter readers at Laraway Family Dental is FREE exams, cleanings, and x-rays for STUDENTS!
Plus, if you are a college student you also get free teeth whitening on top of the free stuff above.
Call – For Appointments 936-321-1477 and mention “MyLitter” to get your free services.
They also have 24 Hour Emergency Care 936-900-4988 if you need it, which hopefully you don’t. Since this is a husband and wife team (Mike and Asha) and they live in The Woodlands, if you need something Friday night, or Sunday morning, they are there to help!
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Dr. Laraway (our dentist) does a monthly post for us talking about dentistry. I know that might not be really exciting, but there are some really cool new things out there that I have never heard of before, and I wanted her to share them with you.
Remember when you were having a baby and you got all the info on storing the cord blood? Has anyone done that?? I really wanted to but we could never afford it. 🙁 I figured I had lost my chance, but last cleaning Dr. Laraway showed us how they can do it with your teeth!! So this got me thinking about all those baby teeth my kids are loosing!!
From Dr. Laraway:
Very few people know that stem cells are in teeth not just in cord blood. Similar to umbilical cord blood banking, dental stem cells can be cryopreserved for years. This provides the opportunity for patients who are having otherwise healthy teeth removed in the normal course of dental care to save their own stem cells today for uses tomorrow, even if they had not saved cord blood at the time of birth.
The cells found in teeth can form soft tissue and bone so may offer a BROADER range of regenerative applications than the stem cells from cord blood.
Potential applications of dental stem cells are:
Any tooth with healthy active blood supply is a viable candidate for stem cell preservation.That means loose baby teeth with still some root left; teeth removed for braces, extracted wisdom teeth. Which is better loose baby tooth or adult tooth? Research shows that the YOUNGER the tooth, the better but any tooth will work.
How much does it cost? The whole tissue service is $649 for processing and $120 a year for storage.
If you have not kept cord blood then you can take your second chance at your child’s well being and cheat that darn tooth fairy out of her money!
This is Tiffany back…
How can you afford this? This is just like the umbilical cord blood decision, although you have a little more time and a few chances. Every family and situation is different, but I can give you a few suggestions of what we have thought about:
Just like any large purchase, I will have to save a little at a time. This is so interesting to me and worth really considering. What do you think??
Call LARAWAY FAMILY DENTISTRY at 936-321-1477 to schedule your appointment.
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This morning I want to bring you some money saving and interesting information from our dentist over at Laraway Family Dentistry.
It might seem a little strange that I am talking about teeth. But in the past few years with my kids and husband we have really been hit hard with dental problems and bills. After finding Dr. Laraway and realizing there were things we could have done to prevent some of these problems and saved some money, I asked Dr. Laraway to write a few posts for me to share with you!
3. Eat fish since insects may not sound to appealing and we do need the essential amino acids (ones our bodies cannot synthesize) Preferably white type of fish, not red like tuna or bonito. The red colour comes from proteins called myoglobins which oxidize immediately after the fish are filleted and may also contain high levels of neurotoxic mercury. One good thing about red meat fish is the high content of antioxidants like EPA , DHA and iron. Fat in fish does not clog arteries like the fat in warm blooded animals (chicken,beef,pork).
4. Eat unrefined whole grains such as brown rice, rolled barley, millet, buckwheat, guinoa, amaranth, oatmeal, whole oats, bulgar. You must cook them because they contain trypsin inhibitors (prevents the seed from germinating on its own). It takes a large amount of digestive enzymes to neutralize these without cooking them.
5. Chew each bite at least 30 times and fast once a week. Our intestinal walls can absorb substances up to 0.015 mm in size. So anything bigger than that will be excreted. You might say that would be a good way to loose weight then, but its not, and this is why: Decomposition of inadequately chewed up food gives rise to toxins. Those in turn occupy the liver so much that we are not able to process fat properly and gain weight.
DONT’S
1. Don’t cook your food. Raw food contains live enzymes crucial for proper metabolism and vitality. We seem to have forgotten it especially when we feed our pets dead (enzyme -free) dry pellets. This concepts is very apparent in nature. The carnivorous animals eat only herbivorous ones to have access to plant food and the herbivore’s digestive enzymes. After they capture their herbivore prey they first eat the intestines (containing plants and live enzymes of the herbivore). A good example of what happens when we violate this law of nature is Mad Cow’s Disease. Common missconcept in nutrition is that white rice and dairy are good for you while they are dead food which lacks in enzymes and should be avoided entirely. More about how milk causes osteoporosis (soft bones) and induces asthma in children in my March blog post.
2. Don’t eat wheat. For info on why not I would like to refer you to a great book called “Wheat Belly”. It’s author will be a guest speaker at The Woodlands Marriott in March!
3. Don’t eat man made chemicals like preservatives (nitrites,nitrates,MSG) or antibiotics and anti acids. AND OF COURSE DO NOT SMOKE. As far as alcohol-it is a poison in any amount but a glass of RED wine is the least of the evil things we can do. 🙂 When it comes to coffee -the “life giving best thing about waking up” – its good, but only for enemas!! Green tea-contains flavonoids which bind to vitamins depriving us of them. That’s perhaps how we have learned to drink it for weight loss. Black tea-contains tannins – good for processing fur and drying out the extraction site after you had a tooth removed but not for maintaining a healthy gastrointestinal tract.
4. Don’t eat meat. Not a popular theme here in Texas but nevertheless true. We all have heard of saturated fatty acids and how they promote plaque accumulation inside our arteries. That of course leads to strokes and heart attacks. More importantly however since our gut is not made to digest meat it tends to sit in our large intestine for a lot too long causing chronic inflammation which eventually leads to bowel cancer – #2 killer after heart disease.
5. DO NOT EAT 5 hours before bedtime. That’s a tough one, but true especially for those of us who snore. More on that in my April blog post on Snoring and sleep apnea.
I realize that all this may be difficult to stick to, especially that healthy food is expensive. One solution: grow your own. Look at the Singapore’s sky scrapers; they look like green hairy beasts-all growing food that lives. OR as Tiffany suggests, coupon for toiletries and use the money you save from that to boost your food budget! In the long run saving you money on dental bills as well!
I will include a recipe for one of my favourite lunch foods:
P.S. If you have ANY dental questions. I talked Dr. Laraway into checking the comments today to answer any questions. Or if you don’t want to ask them “out loud” you can ALWAYS call them and ask.
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