Blog Archive - 2011

With the hustle and bustle of the holiday season here, Drs. Roger Nettune, Kenneth Banasiak and our entire staff at Banasiak & Nettune Orthodontic Associates wanted to stop for a moment and extend our best wishes to you, our patients, referring doctors and families, this holiday season.As always, if you know anyone we can help, just let us know. We promise to give them the same quality orthodontic care that we have given you.We hope that this holiday season brings fond memories. Thank you for being part of our family.

At Banasiak & Nettune Orthodontic Associates, we know maintaining a healthy diet over the holiday season can prove a difficult task. After all, who can resist the tasty treats of Christmas? With grandma and everybody else offering you candy, chocolate logs or Christmas pudding, you just can’t say “I’ll pass” each time. But trouble lurks: every time you chow down on that chocolate or candy, the bacteria in your mouth have a feast on the sugar—at your expense. The sugar turns into acid, and the acid eats away at the enamel on your teeth and between your braces. Then, you start getting cavities. Instead, try pumpkin pie, marvelous molasses cookies, wonderful waffles or other braces-friendly recipes, courtesy of the American […]