Restoring a Missing Tooth is Easy with a Dental Bridge

Losing teeth can be a life changing thing. It can affect aspects of your life you didn’t know about, like speaking and eating. It can make it more difficult for people to understand you and make it so food is harder to enjoy. If you have lost teeth, whether one or several, you know how…

Fillings Can Often Be Used to Repair a Small Chip or Cavity

Chips and cavities on a tooth can cause heightened sensitivity and even a possible latent infection inside a tooth. If they are detected and treated early, Dr. can often repair a small chip or cavity with a standard amalgam or composite resin filling. After the tooth has been examined and X-rayed, your dentist can start…

Exploring the Benefits of Dental Crowns

The benefits of dental crowns begin the first moment they are put in place. Instantly, your damaged tooth is much more protected from outside influence that seeks to eat away or damage it further. In addition to the added protection from dental crowns, they can also be custom-designed to give a natural look to your…

Key Insights for Developing an Effective and Consistent Oral Hygiene Routine

Complications from tooth decay, gum disease and other dental issues might call for invasive treatments and expensive aftercare. So, in a certain light, maintaining good oral health helps maintain your overall quality of life. To that end, your dentist, Dr. , offers these key insights for developing an effective and consistent daily oral hygiene routine…

Using Whitening Strips to Brighten Your Teeth

A smile that has been stained by the passage of time and dark foods and beverages can leave you feeling awkward in social situations. Many people with moderate to deeply stained teeth will reach out to Dr. for a professional dental bleaching treatment. Even after your smile has been whitened you will still need to…

A Missing Tooth Can Often Be Replaced by a Bridge

Losing a tooth to untreated decay, extraction or oral accident can cause significant complications to your oral health. Beyond the loss of function, it can also slur your speech and mar your appearance. The lost tooth can cause the surrounding teeth to turn and slightly alter their positions as they move toward the void. This…

Be Sure to Include Your Dental Implant in Your Daily Oral Hygiene Routine

Even though the titanium dental implants and your bridge are made from artificial materials, it will still require daily care and cleaning. If residual food particles and plaque are not cleaned away by twice-daily brushing and flossing they can harden into tartar. This promotes gum disease that can in time compromise the abutments anchoring your…

Porcelain Crowns Might Need to Be Installed in Conjunction with Dental Veneers

A winning smile certainly serves you in most social and business settings. Many people with an imperfect smile will seek out Dr. to explore their cosmetic dentistry options. Porcelain dental veneers are a very popular option for people that want to improve chips and stains on multiple teeth in their smile. At the same time,…

Removing Food from Between your Teeth

While it’s quite common for food particles and tough meat fibers to get stuck between your teeth when you are eating, there are times when a foreign object can pose a serious threat, or even cause pressure and discomfort. This is even more likely if you have a bad habit of chewing on objects like…

Installing Dental Implants to Help Securely Anchor Your Dentures

Dental implant technology has continued to advance over the course of the last two decades. Today it can be effectively used to create anchor points to lock your removable dentures into place to give you the confidence to use them as if they were your own natural teeth. Most people need between four to six…