{"id":1181,"date":"2016-04-20T20:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2016-04-20T20:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:00:51","slug":"cavity-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/cavity-of-the-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavity of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This patient takes a medicine called atenolol, which is a beta blocker, used to treat high blood pressure. It&#8217;s great at lowering blood pressure, but also causes dry mouth. She also loves to eat Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cups. The decreased saliva and frequent consumption of sugar caused these teeth to decay and the cavities to form. I was able to remove the decay and restore the teeth with ceramic cosmetic fillings. These before and after pictures were taken 15 minutes apart. Looks great!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/decay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1182\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/decay-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"decay\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/decay-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/decay.jpg 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/decay2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1183\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/decay2-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"decay2\" width=\"302\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/decay2-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/decay2.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This patient takes a medicine called atenolol, which is a beta blocker, used to treat high blood pressure. It&#8217;s great at lowering blood pressure, but also causes dry mouth. She also loves to eat Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cups. The decreased saliva and frequent consumption of sugar caused these teeth to decay and the cavities to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/cavity-of-the-day-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cavity of the day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11,32,29,28,33,31,10,12,71,15,17,18,16],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cavities","tag-arlington","tag-caries","tag-cavities","tag-cavity","tag-composite-restorations","tag-decay","tag-dentist","tag-dr-gentry","tag-dr-philip-gentry","tag-northern-virginia","tag-philip-gentry","tag-tooth-bonding","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}