There are many different reasons why you might need to improve the appearance of your smile or restore one or more of your natural teeth. Choosing the right treatment depends largely on what your specific concerns are, which is why the most effective dental treatments are those that are custom-designed specifically to meet your smile’s needs. Today, we examine a few good reasons why patients often choose porcelain veneers to address their smile needs, and how the custom-designed shells of porcelain can offer substantial results while keeping your treatment process minimally invasive. (more…)
Things that Bonding Might Fix for Your Tooth
For many cosmetic dental concerns, the most appropriate treatment is the one that offers maximum results with minimal changes to your healthy, natural tooth structure. With cosmetic tooth bonding, many patients can achieve this with optimal results. Designed to address a multitude of different tooth concerns, bonding consists of applying tooth-colored composite resin to the surface of a tooth, then sculpting and hardening it to match the tooth’s healthy size, shape, contour, and appearance. In addition to improving the tooth’s appearance, this can also be a highly effective and conservative way to restore a tooth when its structure is damaged. (more…)
How to Properly Deal with the Effects of Tooth Loss
For many people, tooth loss isn’t something that has to occur. With proper care and maintenance, along with proactive treatment to address developing concerns early, they have an excellent chance at preventing it. However, tooth loss isn’t always the result of a preventable condition, and even when it is, several other factors may complicate the issue before tooth loss can be prevented. Fortunately, you can successfully deal with tooth loss and its potential effects if it does occur, preserving your healthy smile and bite function. (more…)
Things You Can Do to Avoid Tooth Extraction
Besides routine dental checkups and cleanings, which are necessary for keeping your smile clean and healthy, most dental treatments are designed to address a specific concern. For treatments that are made for specific tooth problems, such as structural damage or progressive decay, the best way to avoid them is to prevent the specific concern from developing. The same is true for tooth extraction. While the procedure isn’t a routine treatment for any specific dental concern, it can become necessary when a variety of oral health problems become severe enough. Today, we examine why tooth extraction can sometimes be necessary, and how you can improve your chances of avoiding ever having to have a tooth extracted. (more…)
Why Choose a Dental Crown for Your Tooth?
You often have several different options for addressing specific types of concerns with your teeth and oral health. For many people, however, a dental crown offers an ideal solution for restoring teeth that have been significantly damaged, or that experience severe blemishing on their surfaces. In some cases, dental crowns can even be part of a more lifelike tooth replacement plan along with a root-like dental implant post. Today, we examine some of the more common reasons why people choose dental crowns, and what the right crown can do to restore or replace your tooth with optimal results. (more…)
What You Might Prevent with Better Preventive Care
As the name suggests, the point of preventive dental care is to help you avoid serious trouble with your oral health. However, that generalization doesn’t always highlight just how important the success of your preventive oral health care routine really is. Today, we examine what, exactly, you might be able to avoid with a consistent and effective preventive care routine, and why it’s important to your long-term oral health. (more…)
What Therapy for Your Root Canal Means
The condition that root canal therapy is meant to treat, known as tooth decay, is the most common chronic dental concern for patients of all ages. However, root canal therapy isn’t that frequently recommended, and for good reason. Tooth decay is progressive, and in most cases, it’s treated before it has a chance to infect your tooth’s root canals. However, if it does, then personalized therapy for the root canal could be necessary to stop the infection and reduce your risk of further complications with your oral health. (more…)
What Makes a Filling Tooth-Colored?
What makes a tooth filling necessary is the development of a cavity, which is one of the most frequent problems people can face with their teeth and oral health. When the problem is detected and treated early, a filling can effectively stop it from getting more severe and restore your tooth’s good health. However, modern tooth fillings are often more advanced than their predecessors, which is mainly due to the more biocompatible materials that they’re often made from. Today, we take a look at what makes a filling tooth-colored, and why its more natural appearance is only part of the overall benefits that it can provide your oral health. (more…)
Do These Symptoms Mean You Have TMJ Disorder?
The name, TMJ disorder, hints at the fact that the disorder mainly affects your jaw health and bite function. TMJ stands for temporomandibular joint, and when the disorder that’s named after it affects the two joints that control your jaw’s movement when your bite functions. However, that can sometimes be the only hint at what, exactly, TMJ disorder means for your oral health. Because of the dominance of your TMJs and the nerves that control them, TMJ disorder can manifest in multiple different symptoms that might not immediately be obvious as a jaw problem. (more…)
What a Bruxism Habit Can Really Do to Your Teeth
If you develop any concern with your oral health, the most important piece of advice you can receive about dealing with it is to do so as soon as possible. Most concerns are progressive in nature, and the longer it takes to address the problem, the more significantly it can impact the state of your oral health. With bruxism, that advice is especially important. While issues like decay in your tooth structure or the formation of gingivitis can grow progressively worse on their own, bruxism involves direct harm and damage to your natural tooth structure. This damage will become worse over time, and what bruxism does to your teeth could lead to more substantial long-term complications. (more…)
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