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JACKSONVILLE, N.C. – A Jacksonville periodontist is offering useful tips for keeping up with oral hygiene routines during the holiday season, when millions of Americans will be traveling to visit friends and loved ones.

“It can be very easy to brush aside our oral hygiene when we travel, since traveling disturbs our normal routines and can sometimes remove us from our comfort zone,” said Dr. Jose I. Arauz, a board-certified periodontist and chief dental officer at the Carolina Dental Specialty Center. “However, it is important to pay attention to our oral hygiene even when we travel, and to set aside time to take care of ourselves.”

According to Dr. Arauz, the first tip for keeping up with oral hygiene on the go is to choose a travel kit with all of the essentials for taking care of our teeth and gums. These necessities include a toothbrush, a sanitary toothbrush cover, toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash and a tongue scraper.

“Many pre-arranged kits exist with all of the hygienic essentials to take on a trip,” said Arauz. “They are compact, easy to pack and are typically made to be easily accessible. It is as simple as choosing one that will allow you to keep up with your normal routine, and packing it along with the rest of your luggage.”

Arauz specifically emphasized the importance of a sanitary toothbrush cover to keep your toothbrush bristles free of bacteria. He recommends letting your toothbrush dry before placing the cover on it, because dampness encourages bacterial growth.

Chewing sugar-free gum is another effective, if nonconventional, way to maintain oral hygiene while traveling, according to Arauz.

“We don’t want to be chewing on sugar, so sugar free gum should be our go-to, but chewing gum can be useful especially if we find ourselves falling out of our normal oral healthcare routine,” he said. “That is because the gum helps keep saliva flowing inside our mouths, which is useful in combatting cavity-causing bacteria that may build up over time.”

Dr. Arauz also provided the following advice for keeping your teeth and gums clean during travel:

• Stay hydrated: Water also helps wash away bacteria that could cause cavities.
• Watch your diet: Especially during the holidays, it is easy to overindulge in desserts and sweets, and consuming sugar is detrimental to oral health.
• See your dentist before you leave: For preventative purposes, schedule a teeth cleaning appointment with your oral healthcare practitioner before you travel to ensure that cavities, toothaches, or other painful conditions don’t interfere with your trip.

About Carolina Dental Specialty Center:

The Carolina Dental Specialty Center specializes in periodontics, robotic dental implants, and oral medicine. Dr. Arauz is a board-certified periodontist trained in dental implant robotics, as well as a Diplomate of The American Board of Periodontology and an active member of the American Academy of Periodontology, the Academy of Osseointegration and the American Board of Periodontology.

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Carolina Dental Specialty Center will be collecting new, unopened toys for the Jacksonville Toys for Tots starting Nov. 1 through Dec. 14 at their office located at 200 Doctors Dr.

Since 2016, Carolina Dental Specialty Center has provided its clinic as a depot for Jacksonville residents to donate unused toys to the Toys for Tots program, an initiative sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves that provides toys and gifts to less fortunate children at Christmas time.

“We participate in quite a few programs throughout the year where we give back to the community, but Toys for Tots is particularly special because it brings a lot of joy to children in our area whose families might not be able to afford many gifts during the holiday season,” said Dr. Jose Arauz, founder of Carolina Dental Specialty Center. “Every aspect of life is getting more expensive, but no kid should feel like they aren’t good enough to receive presents at Christmas.”

Community members can drop new, unwrapped toys in collection boxes positioned in local businesses throughout Jacksonville, including Carolina Dental Specialty Center. According to the Toys for Tots website, coordinators with Toys for Tots will pick up donations and store them in central warehouses, where the toys are sorted by age and gender.  At Christmas, coordinators, with the assistance of local social welfare agencies, church groups, and other local community agencies, distribute the toys to the community’s less fortunate children.

For more information on the Toys for Tots program, visit www.ToysForTots.org.

As the Jacksonville Daily News published their annual Best of the Best Jacksonville awards Sunday, Carolina Dental Specialty Center was awarded the top honor in the category of dental implants, further cementing the clinic as the go-to periodontist in the Jacksonville area thanks to their use of robot-assisted dental services.

The Jacksonville Daily News Best of the Best list recognizes the top businesses in an array of categories that are voted on by the general public.

Offering periodontist services in Jacksonville since 2007, Dr. Jose Arauz, founder of Carolina DSC, has been building a reputation throughout the eastern Carolinas as a tech-savvy dental savant due largely in part to his use of the Yomi robotic dental system, a state-of-the-art robotic software and mechanism that allows Arauz to perform periodontal procedures — both simple and complex — more quickly and with less discomfort than traditional methods, allowing for same-day dental implants with smaller incisions and faster recovery times.

“It’s an incredible honor to receive this award because the Jacksonville Daily News Best of the Best list is chosen by the people of our area, which shows that we are really making an impact due to the way we perform our dental implants,” said Arauz. “We look forward to serving our community and will continue to do so at the highest level of care with patient experience being our top priority.”

Arauz has been installing dental implants for patients for over 15 years, including more than 250 using the Yomi robotic dental system.

The Yomi system offers precise and accurate physical guidance through haptic robotic technology, which constrains the drill during procedures. This level of automated assistance provides Arauz with complete control and allows for clear visualization of the surgical site.

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Those in the eastern Carolinas considering undergoing dental implant surgery will have the opportunity to get an up-close, hands-on demonstration of the Yomi robotic dental system, the only FDA-cleared robot-assisted dental surgery system in the country, at Kimbrell’s parking lot on Friday, Sept. 9 from 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. hosted by Carolina Dental Specialty Center (DSC), the first and only dentistry in eastern North Carolina to use Yomi.

Taking place at 1370 Western Blvd., the open-house event will allow those in attendance to see how Yomi operates and can even use the robotic dental system themselves on a synthetic dental model to better understand the precision and steadiness of the device, allowing for smaller, more accurate incisions and quicker recovery times than traditional surgeries.

Carolina DSC will be giving away a free consultation and x-ray to one lucky attendee following the event, with the winner scheduled to be determined on Sept. 23.

Additionally, those attending the live demonstration will receive a free goodie bag along with chapstick, sunglasses, frisbees, beach balls, koozies and toothbrushes.

As one of the few periodontists in the country using the state-of-the-art, robot-assisted technology, Dr. Jose Arauz, founder of Carolina DSC, has been utilizing Yomi since February of 2020 when his practice first acquired it.

“Ever since we brought Yomi into our office, we’ve had a significant technological advantage over traditional methods of dental implant surgeries,” said Arauz, who has been practicing dentistry in Jacksonville since 2007. “We’re excited to open our doors to the public so they can see for themselves just how effective our robotic dental system is when it comes to minimally invasive procedures.”

To date, Arauz has utilized the Yomi robotic system on 171 dental surgeries — including 250 dental implants installed — that allow his patients to experience less discomfort and faster recovery times compared to traditional dental implant surgeries.

The Yomi system offers precise and accurate physical guidance through haptic robotic technology, which constrains the drill during procedures. This level of automated assistance provides Arauz with complete control and allows for clear visualization of the surgical site.