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Oral Smart is a blog aimed to provide valuable dental tips and remedies to people suffering from dental and oral issues. Created by Sophia K who is a practicing dentist and also runs this blog to help educate her readers about dental health issues ranging from general to cosmetics to emergency treatments. The blog covers topics like general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, specialty dentistry, dental implants, root canals, cosmetic dentistry, and other oral health and wellness topics.

You can trust Oral Smart to help keep you informed about the latest topics, trends, and advancements in the dental field. We carefully analyze and verify every information and strive to make it easy to understand the root cause of your dental problems. We help you make informed decisions with informative and interesting posts on a wide variety of topics in dental health. Regularly updated and well organized, the blog provides detailed and well-researched dental solutions to younger children, elders, and even older persons. It covers traditional and simple topics such as how to brush teeth effectively but also dive into rarely focused topics such as the reaction of different medicines on teeth. We are dedicated to helping people understand the importance and maintenance of dental hygiene of their and their family’s dental health.

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