# Fresh Dental Solutions

> Family-owned dental care in Portland, OR. Portland, Oregon · (503) 555-FRESH · Mon–Fri: 8am–6pm · Sat: 9am–2pm

This is an AI-first site. Every HTML page has a markdown twin at the same
URL with `.md` appended; knowledge-base articles are canonical markdown.
In-browser agents get WebMCP tools (`navigator.modelContext`) and an AG-UI
event stream; the full agent guide is [ai.md](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/ai.md), and the same
surface as one deterministic document is [ai.json](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/ai.json).
Topics: general, cosmetic, restorative, pediatric, cost, booking, emergency.

## Pages
- [Home](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/index.md): practice overview, services, and what makes Fresh different
- [About](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/about.md): our story, values, and team — including Dr. James Sloengaard
- [Services](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/services.md): general, cosmetic, restorative, and pediatric dentistry in detail
- [Contact & booking](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/contact.md): hours, phone, and the appointment request form
- [AI & agents](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/ai.md): the one integration page — markdown access, the Open Data API, MCP wrappers, and protocols

## Knowledge Base
Plain-language dental health education by Dr. Sloengaard (26 articles; human index at [kb/](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/index.html)).
- [Brushing and Flossing, Done Properly](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/brushing-and-flossing.md): Two minutes, twice a day is only half the story. The technique, timing, and tools that make daily cleaning actually protect your teeth.
- [How Food and Drink Shape Your Teeth](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/diet-and-your-teeth.md): Sugar is only part of the picture — acid, frequency, and timing matter just as much. What to eat, what to limit, and how to snack smarter.
- [What Happens at a Dental Checkup](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/dental-checkups.md): Step by step through a routine visit — exam, X-rays, cleaning — why six months is the default rhythm, and how checkups save you money.
- [Fluoride, Explained](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/fluoride-explained.md): How fluoride actually strengthens enamel, what the evidence says about safety, and how much is right for kids and adults.
- [Cavities and Fillings: From First Twinge to Fixed Tooth](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/cavities-and-fillings.md): How decay starts, the signs at each stage, what getting a filling is really like, and how to stop the next cavity before it forms.
- [Root Canal Treatment, Demystified](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/root-canal-treatment.md): The most feared appointment in dentistry is usually the one that ends the pain. What a root canal actually involves, start to finish.
- [Teeth Whitening: What Works and What’s Safe](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/teeth-whitening.md): In-office treatment, take-home trays, strips, and the stuff to avoid — how each option compares on results, cost, and tooth safety.
- [Implants, Bridges, and Dentures: Replacing a Missing Tooth](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/replacing-missing-teeth.md): Your three main options compared — how each works, what treatment involves, how long they last, and what drives cost — plus why replacing matters.
- [Wisdom Teeth: Keep Them or Remove Them?](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/wisdom-teeth.md): Not every wisdom tooth needs to come out. How dentists decide, what impaction means, and what to expect if removal is the right call.
- [Living With Dentures: The Practical Guide](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/living-with-dentures.md): Sore spots, speech, night-time storage, adhesive as a warning sign, and why dentures need relining and replacing as the ridge underneath keeps changing.
- [Your Child’s First Dental Visit](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/childs-first-visit.md): First tooth or first birthday — whichever comes first. What happens at a toddler’s visit and how to set it up for success.
- [Dental Sealants: A Raincoat for Growing Teeth](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/sealants-for-kids.md): A quick, painless coating on the chewing surfaces of molars prevents most of the cavities kids actually get. How sealants work and when to get them.
- [Dental Emergencies: What To Do Right Now](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/dental-emergencies.md): Knocked-out tooth, severe toothache, broken tooth, swelling — the first-hour steps that save teeth, and when to go straight to the ER.
- [Why Teeth Get Sensitive (and What Helps)](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/tooth-sensitivity.md): That jolt from ice water or a cold breeze has a short list of causes. What sensitivity is telling you and the fixes that actually work.
- [Bleeding Gums, Gingivitis, and Gum Disease](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/gum-disease.md): Gums that bleed when you brush aren’t normal. How gingivitis becomes periodontitis, why it matters beyond your mouth, and how to reverse it early.
- [Dental Anxiety Is Real — Here’s How We Work With It](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/dental-anxiety.md): Fear keeps more people from the dentist than cost does. Practical strategies — and practice accommodations — that make visits manageable.
- [A Knocked-Out Tooth: What To Do in the Next Ten Minutes](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/a-knocked-out-tooth.md): Hold it by the crown, do not scrub it, put it back or keep it in milk, and call now. The first-hour steps that decide whether an adult tooth survives — and why a baby tooth is the opposite.
- [Dry Mouth Is a Dental Problem, Not Just a Nuisance](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/dry-mouth.md): Saliva buffers acid, carries the minerals that repair enamel, and keeps bacteria in check. Without enough of it, decay accelerates — here is what causes dryness and what actually protects your teeth.
- [Bad Breath: Finding the Actual Cause](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/bad-breath.md): Almost all persistent halitosis starts in the mouth, and most of it starts on the back of the tongue. How to find the source instead of masking it — and the one in ten cases that is not dental.
- [How a Cavity Actually Forms](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/how-cavities-form.md): Decay is a chemical tug-of-war, not an event — which is why how often you eat matters more than how much. The four things that have to line up, and the stage where it is still reversible.
- [Gingivitis: The Stage You Can Still Undo](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/gingivitis.md): Gums that bleed when you brush are inflamed, not injured — and at this stage nothing has been permanently lost. How to recognise gingivitis and close the window before it becomes periodontitis.
- [Diabetes and Your Mouth: A Two-Way Street](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/diabetes-and-your-mouth.md): Higher blood glucose makes gum disease more likely and more severe — and severe gum inflammation appears to make glucose harder to control. What to watch for, and how to plan treatment.
- [Pregnancy and Your Teeth: Yes, You Should Still Go to the Dentist](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/pregnancy-and-oral-health.md): Routine dental care during pregnancy is safe and recommended — deferring it is the risk. Pregnancy gingivitis, morning sickness and enamel, what treatment is fine when, and what the gum-disease research does and does not show.
- [Cancer Treatment and Your Mouth: What to Expect and What Helps](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/chemotherapy-and-your-mouth.md): See a dentist before treatment starts if you possibly can. Mucositis, dry mouth, taste change and infection — why they happen, what eases them, and what to tell every dentist you see afterwards.
- [What Is Actually in Your Toothpaste](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/what-is-in-toothpaste.md): Forty products, one ingredient that matters. What fluoride concentration to look for, what the abrasives, detergent and claim ingredients really do, and how to choose a tube in ten seconds.
- [Why Prevention Is the Cheapest Dentistry You Will Ever Buy](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/why-prevention-saves-money.md): The same tooth costs wildly different amounts depending on when it is treated, and the cheapest moment is always the earliest. The escalation curve, the costs that never reach the invoice, and what to do if money is the real barrier.

## Data API
Curated public dental datasets as static JSON — catalog: [index.json](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/index.json), docs on the [AI & agents page](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/ai.md), zero-dependency MCP wrapper: [mcp/fresh-datasets.js](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/mcp/fresh-datasets.js). Statistics are rounded, flagged approximate, and cited per record.
- [Tooth notation systems (Universal · FDI · Palmer)](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/tooth-notation.json): All 52 human teeth (32 permanent, 20 primary) with their Universal/ADA, FDI (ISO 3950), and Palmer notations, names, types, and positions. The interoperability table every dental integration ends up rebuilding.
- [Tooth eruption chronology](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/tooth-eruption.json): Typical eruption age ranges for primary and permanent teeth, and shedding ranges for primary teeth, per arch and tooth kind. Ranges are population-typical guidance; individual variation is normal.
- [Headline global oral health indicators](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/oral-health-indicators.json): Hand-compiled global burden-of-disease headline figures from the WHO Global Oral Health Status Report, with per-record citations. Values are rounded and flagged approximate — for orientation only.
- [Knowledge base source registry](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/kb-sources.json): Every authority the Fresh knowledge base cites: publisher, canonical URL, evidence type, topic tags, and the month the URL was last verified. This is the citation layer of kb/*.md published as queryable data.
- [Knowledge base article catalog](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/kb-articles.json): Every published Fresh knowledge base article: slug, title, summary, category, topics, reading time, last update, and the source ids it cites. Join to kb-sources on the source id to see what stands behind any article.
- [Dental and oral ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/icd10cm-dental.json): Every ICD-10-CM code a dental practice touches — caries, pulp and periapical disease, gingival and periodontal disease, oral mucosa, salivary glands, oral and pharyngeal cancer, dentofacial anomalies and TMJ, cleft lip and palate, dental trauma, and dental care encounters — extracted in full from the official CMS tabular list (FY2026) with hierarchy, inclusion terms and excludes notes intact. Codes are flagged against the ASTDD emergency-department surveillance code sets, so you can select the conditions routine dental care commonly addresses.
- [US oral health status — NHANES surveillance estimates](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/oral-health-surveillance.json): The CDC Oral Health Surveillance Report tables as data: prevalence of caries, untreated decay, dental sealants, tooth retention and edentulism, plus mean counts of decayed/missing/filled and sealed teeth, across three NHANES periods (1988-1994, 1999-2004, 2011-2016). Every estimate carries its standard error and 95% confidence interval, stratified by age, sex, race and ethnicity, poverty status, education and smoking history.
- [Community water fluoridation coverage, by state and county](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/water-fluoridation.json): Fluoridation status of 30,242 public water systems in the CDC Water Fluoridation Reporting System extract, rolled up to state and county level: how many systems are fluoridated, how many people they serve, and the resulting share of the served population on fluoridated water. Covers the 31 states present in the extract: AK, AL, AR, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, ND, NE, NH, NV, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WV.
- [Oral and pharyngeal cancer incidence and mortality, United States](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/api/datasets/oral-cancer-rates.json): Age-adjusted incidence and mortality rates for cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx, 1999-2017, from United States Cancer Statistics — nationally by race and sex, and by state for all races combined.

## Capabilities
- **Schedule Appointment** `book` (navigate → https://freshdentalsolutions.com/contact.html)
- **Our Services** `view-services` (navigate → https://freshdentalsolutions.com/services.html)
- **Call (503) 555-FRESH** `call` (tel → tel:5035553737)
- **Emergency — call us now** `emergency-help` (emergency → emergency)
- **Learn More About Us** `learn-about` (navigate → https://freshdentalsolutions.com/about.html)
- **Browse the Knowledge Base** `read-kb` (navigate → https://freshdentalsolutions.com/kb/index.html)
- **Request Appointment** `submit-appointment` (submit → submit)

## Optional
- [ai.json](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/ai.json): this integration surface as one machine-readable discovery graph
- [MCP app manifest sketch](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/mcp-app/manifest.json): tools + UI resource a live MCP server will declare
- [Redesign plan](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/docs/REDESIGN.md): the AG-UI × A2UI native program (MCP app is the first-class surface)
- [AI-first architecture](https://freshdentalsolutions.com/AI_FIRST.md): bones → outlet → plug → morphic components