Let’s face it: We all want a beautiful smile.

We know that anything that makes our smile unsightly can negatively affect our self-image and confidence level, job prospects and social life.

Unfortunately, many adults live with smile problems simply because they don’t know how easy it is to get an attractive smile.  Dentistry has come a long way, and modern advances make it easy to restore a life-like beauty to teeth that are stained, chipped, crooked, missing or separated by a wide space.

How do you rate your smile?

Yes      No  

                        I would like to have a nicer smile

                        My teeth are stained or discolored

                        I have dark and unsightly fillings

                        My gums are red, swollen, receding or bleeding

                        My teeth are crooked or crowded

                        I have old crowns (caps) with black lines

                        My teeth are chipped and worn

                        I cover my mouth when I smile

Q.            I do a lot of aerobic exercise including jogging but I still find that my thighs are still lose and flabby.  I am smaller but my body fat is still high.  What am I doing wrong?                                                                                                                                                                    Betty, Sunrise      

Hair Colors

Coloring your hair is perhaps the quickest and jost dramatic way to change your look. It is also an excuse to go out and buy a new wardrobe of clothes, because you'll find that what suited you as a brunette looks rather drab on a new blonde.

There are two types of hair dyes: permanent and semi-permanent, with variations of each.

A) Permanent Tints:

Must be mixed with hydrogen peroxide to lift hair color. The peroxide opens the hair cuticle so that the tint can penetrate the cortex and form the color. The higher the level of peroxide, the quicker and lighter the result.

B) Semi-Permanent Colors:

They don't actually lift the color - you can either vary the tone within your natural highlights or go darker. Quasi-color contains ethanolamine and 3 percent peroxide which slightly opens the cuticle. This means that the color can last up to 20 washes and will softly fade as you shampoo, causing no regrowth problem.

Escovitched Fish

INGREDIENTS:

4 large Snapper

2 Limes or lemons, sliced in half

1 tbsp Salt

1 tbsp Ground black pepper

30 gm Plain flour

8 fl oz coconut oil

1 Bay leaf

4 fl oz malt vinegar

2 large Onions, sliced

2 Hot peppers, sliced

2 Sweet peppers, (green and red) seeded and cut into rings

4 Carrots, cooked and sliced

1 tsp Allspice

Lent is here and as many of you know, giving up something you love is one of the practices Christians use to show self-denial. One of the things people often give up during this 40-day period is meat (and poultry).

For those of us who cannot imagine a meatless life for even a week, it sounds like giving up everything including those juicy steaks, succulent oxtail, pork chops and all the other kinds of meats we consume daily. But many people are not too much into red meat, so, it’s giving up chicken that is the jost difficult.

Here’s the good thing. Fish is acceptable. And as you know, in this part of the country, fresh fish is readily available. And with the variety of fish that can be had, a delicious meatless Lent isn’t at all farfetched. In fact, it’s more reason to try it and lay off the red meat for a while. Not only is this healthy, but you will feel so much better inside, and you would be giving up something you really love as an act of penitence.