If you notice that your teeth are stained, your instinct might be to go seek teeth-whitening treatment. This may or may not be the ideal solution; it depends largely on the type of stains that have developed on your teeth. Though you may not realize it, your teeth can change color for a variety of reasons, and not all cases of teeth staining are the same. Before recommending teeth-whitening, or any other dental treatment, we’ll first perform a careful examination to diagnose your specific kind of teeth stains. Then, we can help you decide on which treatment is best for your smile. (more…)
Do You Snore, or Do You Have Sleep Apnea?
If you snore a lot, the impact it can have on your health and wellbeing depends on several different factors. For example, how often and how deeply you snore could determine whether your habit can have an impact on your overall cardiovascular health. In some cases, it might also be an indication of something much more serious than a habit, such as obstructive sleep apnea. What’s common in most cases, however, is the fact that snoring does have an impact when it occurs repeatedly. To find out if it’s just a habit or a sign of something more severe, talk to your dentist about your snoring or sleep apnea. (more…)
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Is Your Tooth Cracked? It Might Be More Serious than You Think
Some issues that can affect your teeth don’t seem serious, even though they are. Others are obviously a significant threat, yet patients may still hesitate to address them, allowing them to grow much more serious than you expect by the time they do seek treatment. Cracked/fractured teeth are a common type of the latter. Even if the damage to the tooth is visibly significant, patients might not seek treatment for the cracked tooth immediately. Today, we examine why that’s never a good idea, and why the damage to your tooth might pose a bigger threat to your oral health than you realize. (more…)
The Difference Between Needing a Filling and a Root Canal
Tooth decay can occur at any stage in your life, and treating it is a common concern for most patients. Yet, exactly how you treat tooth decay depends on several different factors, and the success of your treatment relies heavily on customizing it to address your specific needs. For example, both tooth fillings and root canal treatment are designed to help you address tooth decay and save your healthy, natural tooth structure. However, one can help you stop mild to moderate decay from growing worse, while the other is designed to save your tooth when it’s in the grips of much more severe decay. (more…)
Do Your Gums Bleed? It May Mean More than You Think
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…)
