{"id":155,"date":"2015-11-01T19:50:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2016-07-24T22:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T05:46:42","slug":"happy-national-brush-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/happy-national-brush-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy National Brush Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9214.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-156 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9214-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9214\" width=\"625\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9214-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9214-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9214-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9214-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit: Dollar Photo Club<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The day after Halloween is National Brush Day &#8211; a reminder to practice good oral hygiene by brushing for 2 minutes, 2 times a day.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips for cleaning off all that sticky, sweet plaque from yesterday&#8217;s loot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use an appropriately sized, soft-bristled brush that can fit all the nooks and crannies in your mouth<\/li>\n<li>Angle the toothbrush bristles at 45-degrees to the gums and move in small back-and-forth strokes<\/li>\n<li>Clean the cheek-side, tongue-side, and chewing surfaces of all teeth. \u00a0Tip: to clean that hard-to-reach inside surface of the lower front teeth, tilt the brush vertically and brush using up and down strokes.<\/li>\n<li>Clean in between\u00a0teeth (where the brush bristles can&#8217;t reach) with floss<\/li>\n<li>Brush with a fluoride-containing toothpaste<\/li>\n<li>Visit your dentist regularly for professional cleanings and checkup exams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So keep enjoying the sweet spoils from last night&#8217;s festivities, but remember to brush and floss in order to avoid getting tooth decay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-384 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Landmark-Dental-Group-Santa-Cruz.png\" alt=\"Landmark Dental Group Contact | Santa Cruz\" width=\"428\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Landmark-Dental-Group-Santa-Cruz.png 428w, https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Landmark-Dental-Group-Santa-Cruz-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after Halloween is National Brush Day &#8211; a reminder to practice good oral hygiene by brushing for 2 minutes, 2 times a day. Here are some tips for cleaning off all that sticky, sweet plaque from yesterday&#8217;s loot: Use an appropriately sized, soft-bristled brush that can fit all the nooks and crannies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landmark-dental-group.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}