Bruxism, or chronic teeth-grinding, can become a serious problem for your teeth and oral health when it goes untreated long enough. Unfortunately, many people who have bruxism don’t realize that they do at first, and this can sometimes allow the condition to cause significant wear and damage to their teeth by the time they seek treatment for it. The best way to protect your teeth from bruxism is to address it as soon as possible, especially if you’ve already started to notice your teeth wearing down from the grinding. (more…)
When Your Replacement Teeth Have Dental Implants
There’s a custom dental treatment for virtually any concern you may have with your healthy, natural teeth. That includes losing one or more of them, which can have some of the most devastating consequences on your immediate and long-term oral health if it isn’t addressed promptly. Today, we examine why dental implants can often be one of the most important parts of your smile restoration plan, including what dental implants do for your smile long-term. (more…)
When Restoring Your Smile Means Extracting a Tooth
Restoring your smile can mean a lot of different things, all of which depend on what’s wrong with it. For example, restoring a tooth that has a cavity isn’t the same as repairing a tooth that has a fracture or break in its structure. In most cases, however, restoring your smile means avoiding the loss of one or more teeth by addressing your oral health concern with customized treatment. For some teeth, this isn’t possible, and restoring your smile could mean extracting the tooth so that it doesn’t continue threatening the rest of your oral health. (more…)
What Early Gum Disease Treatment Can Help You Avoid
Gum disease is one of the most common oral health concerns for adults, but fortunately, it’s often treated and managed before it can lead to significant consequences. For instance, if you treat gum disease in its early stage, you can stop it from progressing and preserve your healthy periodontal and oral tissues. However, if it becomes more severe, treating periodontal disease could require more extensive treatment and ongoing maintenance to control the many different risks that it could pose. These risks include a greater chance of experiencing tooth loss and requiring comprehensive restoration to rebuild your smile. (more…)
Rebuilding a Smile That’s Lost One or More Teeth
The disconcerting thing about tooth loss is that, once you lose one, it’s lost forever. The more teeth you lose, the greater the permanent impact of it will be on your oral health, and the more urgent your need to replace your lost teeth in order to rebuild your smile. However, depending on the extent of your tooth loss and the specific conditions that led to it, rebuilding your smile might mean more than receiving a dental bridge or denture. (more…)
3 Aspects of Your Tooth a Dental Crown Restores
Dental crowns used to be the go-to treatment for most types of concerns that involved damage to a tooth’s structure. This is because a dental crown is designed to cap a tooth’s entire visible structure, and therefore, can completely restore the tooth in just single procedure. However, modern restorations can be designed to more precisely address problems with your tooth. When it comes to modern dental crowns, that includes effectively restoring some of the most important aspects of your tooth’s overall health and integrity. (more…)
Why Is Tooth Decay Treatment Different for Everyone?
Aside from routine dental checkups and cleanings, most dental treatments are recommended to address specific types of concerns with your teeth or oral health. However, that doesn’t mean every person who exhibits the same kind of problem will require the same treatment to address it. For example, tooth decay is one of the most common chronic oral health problems, but treating it can vary greatly depending on several important factors. Today, we examine what those factors are, and what treating your specific tooth decay could entail. (more…)
Some of the Best Reasons to Choose Veneers
For patients who want to restore or improve their smiles for a variety of reasons, the best way to achieve the results they want is with personalized, conservatively designed dental treatment. In many cases, porcelain veneers can provide exactly the results patients desire while minimizing the extent of their treatment, even when they have multiple different issues with their tooth structure to address. Today, we examine a few of the best reasons to choose porcelain veneers for improving your smile, and why they’re becoming an increasingly more popular smile restoration. (more…)
Is There a Way to Stop Grinding Your Teeth?
Bruxism, or chronic teeth-grinding, can often be the source of several different oral health concerns, and that’s largely due to the fact that not everyone who has it realizes what a problem it is. Until they do, the constant grinding of their teeth can gradually wear down, damage, and threaten your teeth to increasingly more severe degrees. Fortunately, there’s a way to stop grinding your teeth if you experience bruxism, and if you address the condition early, you have a good chance of keeping your treatment as minimally invasive as possible. (more…)
3 Areas Where Dental Implants Improve a Restoration
Today’s dental restorations can help people address a wide range of dental health concerns with a high level of realism, allowing them to restore their smiles and tooth structure with optimal results. However, when it comes to replacing one or more lost teeth, conventional restorations typically have one important limitation – they’re unable to replace the roots that healthy, natural teeth rely on. Fortunately, today’s dental bridges and dentures can often be supported by lifelike dental implant posts, which are designed to mimic and replace the roots of your lost teeth. (more…)