Your confidence in your appearance, or lack thereof, can significantly influence your frame of mind. Because your smile is one of your face’s dominant features, your overall self-image and confidence in your smile are as important as your dental health. With a wide variety of advanced cosmetic dental technology and materials, we can transform your smile into one you’ll be proud to show off to the world! (more…)
Are These Habits Harming Your Teeth?
Hopefully, you know now that brushing and flossing your teeth every day is essential to maintaining the health of your teeth. Dental issues like tooth decay and gum disease typically stem from poor dental hygiene, and if not attended to, either illness can lead to dire consequences for your oral health. However, even if your oral hygiene is top-notch, things you do throughout your day can undermine your efforts and still harm your teeth and gums. Today, we explore some of these habits and how they can damage your teeth and gums if left unchecked. (more…)
How Dental Implants Advance Modern Dentistry
The advancement of modern dentistry has given us a wealth of benefits when it comes to preserving, protecting, and improving our smiles. In the case of replacing lost teeth, that advancement has also provided us with highly lifelike dental implants that offer the most comprehensive support for a dental crown, bridge, or denture. Dental implants are small, biocompatible posts that are designed to mimic how your teeth roots work. Each post is strategically placed in your jawbone, which fuses to the post’s surface, and can be used to anchor your replacement teeth as securely as your healthy, natural teeth. (more…)
Is It Time to Consider Teeth-Whitening?
With a good hygiene routine at home and a regular schedule of preventive dental care, you can prolong the beautiful, healthy appearance of your smile and prevent most chronic dental issues. However, teeth stains are not like most chronic dental issues; even when your teeth are healthy, stains can still show up on their surfaces thanks to exposure to foods, beverages, and more. Fortunately, teeth stains can typically be erased as easily as they appear with a fast and effective professional teeth-whitening treatment. If your smile could use a pick me up due to a change in your teeth’s appearance, then ask your dentist if you should consider teeth-whitening. (more…)
Would You Know if You Had Sleep Apnea?
Patients with sleep apnea are not always aware of their condition. Their bodies wake up repeatedly at night to restart breathing, but patients typically remain unconscious, unaware of the disturbance. Sleep apnea is typically marked by bouts of extremely loud snoring, and many patients only learn of their disorder when their partners complain of the noise. If you believe that you may have sleep apnea, then your dentist may be able to help you diagnose the issue and receive appropriate, customized treatment. (more…)
Why Your Dentist Urges You to Quit Smoking
For most people, the fact that tobacco use is harmful to your health is not news. After all, tobacco companies have been embroiled in legal battles regarding the deadly product that they sell for years. Because your mouth is the window to the rest of your body, attention should also be paid to the effects that tobacco has on your oral health. Today, we take a look at those effects, and why your dentist urges you to quit if you use tobacco products. (more…)
Tooth Restoration vs. Full-Mouth Rehabilitation
With the right restorative dentistry treatment, your tooth can successfully recover from most issues such as a crack, fracture, progressive cavity, and more. However, when you have several teeth that need to be restored, or your compromised tooth is coupled with bite misalignment or other issues, then you may require more than a single restoration. Full-mouth rehabilitation is a custom-designed, highly personalized treatment plan to correct all of your smile’s issues in a conservative and effective manner. Each plan is comprised of a combination of restorative and/or cosmetic treatments to address each patient’s unique needs and preferences, and your dentist will work closely with you to determine what your treatment plan should entail. (more…)
Can Bonding Repair My Chipped Tooth?
A tooth can be damaged in a number of ways, like a fracture in its crown, or a broken piece that has completely separated from its main structure. Some of the more common types of tooth damage, however, are not so severe. For instance, teeth can often become slightly worn or chipped, which may affect your smile’s appearance as much as it does your tooth’s integrity. In many such cases, your dentist can repair your chipped tooth with minimal changes to your tooth structures, such as with cosmetic tooth bonding. Unlike a dental crown or porcelain veneer, tooth bonding can reestablish your tooth’s whole, healthy appearance without having to permanently alter the tooth’s structure. (more…)
Can Porcelain Veneers Give You a Better Smile?
Taking good care of your smile is about more than just preventing and treating issues like tooth decay and gum disease. It also entails maintaining a level of pride in your smile’s appearance and showing it as often as you can. For many patients, however, that pride is limited due to cosmetic blemishes such as stains, chipped surfaces, uneven spacing, and more. The good news is that cosmetic smile improvement may not be as challenging as many patients expect, especially with the help of one or more porcelain veneers. (more…)
A Look at Impacted Wisdom Teeth
Every tooth in your smile is unique, including wisdom teeth. Some patients may not grow their last four molars at all, while others may develop more than four. Certain patients experience little or no discomfort in their wisdom teeth, while others may grow third molars that can’t erupt properly for any number of various reasons. Even impacted wisdom teeth can vary in their nature, exhibiting a variety of personalities that can determine the severity of each patient’s condition. (more…)
