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Heading for the beach! Hiking to the lake! Keeping cool with a tall, frosty glass of ice water in a foreign bistro, or taking a refreshing gulp from the fountain in the park! Hot weather has arrived, and water is something we’re more conscious of now than most other times of the year. Even so,…
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You’ve been going to Brent J. Porter, DDS for a while now, so you pretty much know what to expect when you get to our Santa Cruz office. You’ll see Dr. Brent Porter, your hygienist, and all the other members of your friendly dental team again. You’ll sit in a comfortable chair just your size.…
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Memorial Day is not only a federal holiday in the United States, but it is a day of observance and remembrance of those who died in service. Originally known as Decoration Day, this solemn day has been marked on calendars since the end of the American Civil War as a day to commemorate both the…
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Diastema is a medical term meaning “space between”—or what Dr. Brent Porter and our team less formally call a gap between the teeth. Such gaps are common for children as they make the transition from baby teeth to adult teeth, and usually close when all the permanent teeth arrive. But not always! Sometimes a gap,…
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