Taking good care of your smile is often simple, but requires careful attention and a high level of consistency. For example, it only takes a small slip in your dental hygiene routine for oral bacteria to cause harm to your teeth and/or gums. If they do, the earliest signs of trouble may not always be as obvious as you might expect them to be, and some symptoms can easily be mistaken as nothing to be concerned about. For example, many patients notice that their gums bleed on occasion, but a lack of other noticeable symptoms can make it seem like a minor issue. (more…)
What Happens When You Snore?
Most people know what snoring is, but few people can answer what causes the noise or why they snore consistently. The truth is that snoring is different for everyone and there is no single common cause of it. What is common, however, is the potential seriousness of a chronic snoring habit, and the fact that ignoring it is often a bad idea for those who experience it. (more…)
Life After Tooth Loss – The Importance of Tooth Replacement
With the right dental treatment, your smile can recover from virtually anything. In a lot of cases, like dealing with tooth decay or tooth damage, recovery means saving the tooth in question by restoring its compromised structure. However, it also means helping your smile bounce back from losing one or more teeth, which can be one of the most significant things to affect your long-term oral health. Today, we take a look at what changes when you lose one or more teeth, and what life after tooth loss can be with the right custom-designed replacement teeth. (more…)
The Art of Reconstructing Your Whole Smile
In many ways, restoring your smile from any issue that compromises it is a rehabilitative process. Whether your dentist is removing an infection from your tooth or fortifying a part of a tooth’s damaged structure, the goal is to help you regain your good oral health and the full, proper function of your bite. With that goal in mind, some patients may require more than a single treatment to complete their smile restoration. With an appropriate number of customized dental treatments, your dentist can create a full-mouth reconstruction plan to address all of your smile’s concerns in a conservative manner. (more…)
A Few Notes About Healthy Bite Function
In general, keeping your smile healthy relies on just a few simple principles. Keep your teeth and gums clean and healthy on a consistent basis, and make sure you add visiting your dentist regularly to your schedule of important things to do. Sometimes, though, your oral health care involves more than safeguarding your smile against common things like tooth decay and gum disease. For instance, part of the reason for visiting your dentist on a regular basis is to ensure that every part of your bite is functioning properly. Otherwise, the consequences to your oral health could become more severe than you’d expect. (more…)
When a Tooth Decays – A Close Look at Cavities
The good thing about keeping your smile healthy is that, in general, doing so isn’t difficult. However, it does take consistency, which most of us may fail at once in a while. For example, the most common concern – tooth decay – can develop if even a small number of oral bacteria are able to infect your tooth structure. If you slack in your dental hygiene routine and allow too many bacteria to accumulate at once, the substances they produce can erode your tooth enamel and pave the way for the bacteria to start decaying your tooth structure. (more…)
Thinking About Improving Your Smile? Consider Veneers
If you’re thinking about improving your smile’s appearance, then you probably think about it a lot. Your smile plays a big role in your everyday life, and a lack of confidence in its appearance can be a constant downer. Fortunately, you have plenty of options for improving your smile’s appearance, depending on what your specific concerns are. If you have several of them, then we may recommend one or more custom-designed porcelain veneers to address them. (more…)
Does Your Tooth Need Fixing? Here’s How Bonding Does It
Sometimes, a tooth becomes damaged because it wasn’t cared for properly enough and has become compromised, or because of accidental trauma. While the specific nature of your tooth damage may be unique, the need to fix it conservatively is universal. With cosmetic tooth bonding, we can fulfill that need for patients with a wide range of tooth issues, and without causing permanent alterations to your tooth structure. If your tooth needs fixing, then ask us about the benefits of bonding it with biocompatible, tooth-colored resin. (more…)
How Easy Is It to Brighten Your Smile?
When you keep your smile consistently clean and healthy, preventing serious issues with your oral health is relatively easy. Unfortunately, teeth stains aren’t always among the issues that you can prevent, and your smile may stain and lose its healthy shine before you realize it. Fortunately, most common teeth stains are merely cosmetic and occur on the surfaces of your teeth. This makes erasing them and brightening your smile much easier than you might expect, and with custom teeth-whitening treatment, you can brighten your smile however is most convenient for you. (more…)
Dealing with Sleep Apnea? Here’s What to Know
People who snore sometimes have more to worry about than just the sound they make when they sleep. For instance, if you have obstructive sleep apnea, the snoring is just one of many different symptoms related to the sleep disorder. If you ignore it, you could leave yourself open to a host of health risks. Fortunately, we can help you deal with sleep apnea by designing a comfortable and conservative sleep appliance, which helps keep your airway clear of obstruction so you can breathe and sleep peacefully every night. (more…)
