{"id":339,"date":"2022-04-14T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/?page_id=339"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T04:33:14","slug":"enjoy-an-egg-cellent-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/enjoy-an-egg-cellent-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy an Egg-cellent Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image \"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4 w-100 rounded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/easter-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween Saving your teeth\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><p class=\"text-justify g-font-size-16 g-mb-20\">Can we enjoy an egg-cellent Easter with all the sweets and chocolates whilst caring for our teeth?<br><br> Easter is such an amazing time: There is a long weekend, school holidays, and so much delectable food, drinks and most of all, chocolate.<br><br>So here are some tips and tricks to help you keep your teeth safe from sweets.<\/p><br>\n\n\n\n<header class=\"u-heading-v2-3--bottom g-brd-primary g-mb-10\">\n      <h3 class=\"h5 g-font-weight-700 g-mt-minus-15 g-mb-10\">Easter Eggs<\/h3>\n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-justify g-font-size-16 g-mb-20\">There are many theories and ideas around the origins of Easter eggs and the internet has resources galore on those topics that you can look at. So we won&#8217;t bore you with all those details.<br><br>We&#8217;ll get right to how to enjoy those delicious treats and keep your teeth as safe as possible at the same time.<\/p><br>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<header class=\"u-heading-v2-3--bottom g-brd-primary g-mb-10\">\n      <h3 class=\"h5 g-font-weight-700 g-mt-minus-15 g-mb-10\">Saving your teeth during an egg-cellent Easter.<\/h3>\n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"text-justify g-font-size-16 g-mb-20 wp-block-paragraph\">We all love to eat sweets, (including dentists); chocolate, lollies, toffees, cookies, you name it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-justify g-font-size-16 g-mb-20 wp-block-paragraph\">The foundations for saving your teeth through festive times, come on all the other days of the year. Brushing your teeth twice a day, flossing everyday, drinking plenty of water, eating a balanced and healthy diet as well as visiting your dentist regularly, will keep teeth and gums healthy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image \"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4 w-100 rounded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/easter3.jpg\" alt=\"Enjoying an egg-cellent Easter\" class=\"wp-image-369\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-justify g-font-size-16 g-mb-20 wp-block-paragraph\">The following tips can be used on all days, not just Easter, to enjoy those special treats and save your teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"text-justify g-font-size-16 g-mb-20\"><li>Don&#8217;t snack and avoid sipping on soft drinks or juices throughout the day<\/li><li>Eat sweets and treats with a meal so that your mouth is ready to produce saliva to help neutralise acids<\/li><li>Rinse your mouth with water or drink plenty of water after consuming sugary foods<\/li><li>Chewing sugar-free gum can help produce saliva that helps neutralise acids<\/li><li>Check the nutritional label on food products. Minimise foods that have sugar in the top few ingredients or have high sugar levels per 100gm\/ml.<\/li><li>Use other forms of treats rather than sweets and lollies<\/li><\/ul><br>\n<p class=\"text-justify g-font-size-16 g-mb-20\">Enjoy your Egg-cellent Easter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image \"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4 w-100 rounded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/easter4.jpg\" alt=\"egg-cellent easter\" class=\"wp-image-385\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we enjoy an egg-cellent Easter with all the sweets, lollies and chocolates whilst caring for our teeth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[23,17,13,22],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dental-health","category-oral-health","tag-diet","tag-oral-health","tag-smile-hawthorn","tag-sugars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smilehawthorn.com.au\/the-wisdom-tooth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}