When you have a broken or cracked tooth, or one suffering from an advanced stage of decay or an infection, then a restoration will be necessary to return function and health to your smile. In today’s blog, your Syosset, NY, dentist will explain how we create custom full and partial crowns to restore your smile,… Read more »
Category: Restorative Dentistry Syosset LI NY
The Benefits of a Tooth-Colored Filling
With the holidays upon us, it is important to keep your smile in mind as you enjoy some seasonal favorite treats. Practicing excellent oral health habits at home, including brushing and flossing regularly, is crucial to maintaining a lifelong grin. Certain foods such as baked goods and other sweet treats can feed oral bacteria, causing… Read more »
How A Root Canal Can Save Your Smile
While dental health is a top priority, there typically isn’t a “one-size-fits-all” method of treatment that can prevent or fix everything. What this means is that you need quality dental care that is custom-tailored to your specific problems, such as combatting disease, tooth loss, or simply filling a tooth. It is also important to keep… Read more »
Helping Your Smile Recover from Multiple Concerns
With the right dental treatment, most oral health concerns can be addressed more conveniently than many people expect. For many people, however, their smiles are impacted by more than just one problem, and restoring their smiles can require addressing multiple issues of different natures and extents. To fully restore your oral health and bite function… Read more »
How a Tooth Filling Prevents the Need for a Root Canal
When you develop a cavity, the most frequent treatment recommendation is to fill it with a customized, biocompatible filling material. For most people who get cavities, a tooth filling can be the most effective and conservative way to treat it and preserve their teeth. However, this depends on treating the cavity while it’s still in… Read more »
Why Modern Dental Crowns Come in Different Sizes
Dental crowns have been a popular way for restoring and saving teeth for a long time, but today’s version of the restoration isn’t always what people expect. While most people are familiar with traditional, or complete, dental crowns that completely cap a tooth’s visible structure, not every crown today is designed the same. Today, we… Read more »
Why You Can Look Forward to Your Tooth Filling
When you have a cavity, treating is as soon as possible is important for many reasons. For example, the sooner you treat it, the sooner you can relieve the toothache that it causes so you can enjoy your food and beverages comfortably again. Treating a cavity early also allows you to keep the treatment minimal,… Read more »
Choosing Between a Partial or Full Dental Crown
Not too long ago, choosing a dental crown and the material that it should be made from were the biggest choices in restoring a compromised tooth. As a complete restoration that caps and protects all of your tooth’s crown structure, a traditional full dental crown can be the best solution for a wide range of… Read more »
Are You a Good Candidate for Full-Mouth Rehabilitation?
The good thing about most modern dental health treatments is that they’re designed to help you address virtually any oral health concern with optimal efficiency. If you have a cavity, your restorative treatment can include removing the decay from your tooth with enhanced precision and preserving a maximum amount of the tooth’s healthy structure. However,… Read more »
When Does Root Canal Treatment Become Necessary?
Root canal treatment isn’t always the preferred option for treating tooth decay. In fact, the condition is more often addressed with a more conservative tooth filling, before root canal treatment ever becomes necessary. However, when tooth decay becomes severe, a tooth filling may not be enough to treat the infection inside of your tooth’s pulp… Read more »
