Keeping your gums healthy is essential for avoiding tooth loss, as well as the uncomfortable symptoms of issues like gingivitis and gum disease. Fortunately, we can protect your gum health and preserve your smile. In today’s blog, your Houston, TX, dentist talks about our approach to periodontal treatment.
Don’t Let Cavities Ruin Your Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a great time to get together with your friends and family, and share a wonderful meal. However, often our holiday meals contain lots of starch and sugar, two ingredients that can cause tooth decay. In today’s blog, your Houston, TX, dentist talks about how to help safeguard your smile while enjoying your favorite holiday foods!
Avoiding Diabetic Tooth Loss
In the United States, one of the most common conditions is diabetes. Currently, at least 29 million Americans have this auto-immune disease, and it can lead to health effects all through the body. Whether you’ve been recently diagnosed or this is something you have lived with for years, it is important to keep yourself informed. Education is one of the largest challenges in the healthcare of this topic!
But you may not be aware of how this condition can affect your oral health. Approximately one in every five instances of tooth loss are directly related to blood sugar complications. Today, your Houston, TX dentist stresses how important strict diabetes management can be in the prevention of losing a part of your smile! (more…)
Don’t Let Your Dental Benefits Vanish Unused!
Do you have dental insurance or possibly a health savings account? If so, then you could have benefits or funds that may disappear at the end of December unless used. Don’t let this happen! In today’s blog, your Houston, TX, dentist talks about how you can use these benefits before they’re gone.
Creating Your Complete Dentures
A full set of dentures could address major tooth loss, so you can not only smile with confidence again, but eat your favorite meals too! Our team can design and craft a custom set designed specifically for your smile. In today’s blog, your Houston, TX, dentist talks about how we create your full set of dentures.
Don’t Let Your Halloween Treats Cause Tooth Decay
When Halloween arrives, this is a chance to go to parties, watch scary movies, and dress up in costumes. This is also a time when people of all ages enjoy lots of sugary sweets. Which means an increased risk of tooth decay! In today’s blog, your Houston, TX, dentist talks about avoiding cavities during the spooky season.
Partial Dentures Mean A Full Smile Again
When you lose teeth and leave behind several gaps in the smile, this could be a case too complex for a bridge but not severe enough for a full prosthetic. In these situations, our team could offer a solution with a partial set of dentures. In today’s blog, your Houston, TX, dentist talks about our partial prosthetics!
How Bridges Replace Missing Teeth
Losing even one tooth could mean serious problems for your smile, including factors that cause additional missing teeth. To avoid these complications, the missing tooth needs to be replaced with a prosthetic. In today’s blog, your Houston, TX, dentist talks about how we use custom and lifelike bridges to replace missing teeth.
Restorative Work With A Custom Crown
What can you do to make sure that your tooth is completely restored when you have a problem with a cavity or injury? Dental problems lead to frustration for many reasons. Your problem can cause discomfort, and it can make biting and chewing difficult. It can also hurt your appearance. At our Houston, TX dentist’s office, we can provide treatment options that preserve your oral health and appearance. Full and partial dental crowns are capable of restoring teeth that are in poor condition. Because we can provide these different options, we can find ways to preserve more of your healthy tooth structure. We can also make arrangements to place restorations that are able to match the appearance and texture of your enamel to preserve your smile. (more…)
Using Fillings To Stop Toothaches
When you have an aching tooth, this could mean tooth decay. Lack of treatments could mean that discomfort grows worse, and that your tooth could develop a painful infection too. In today’s blog, your Houston, TX, dentist talks about how we diagnose cavities, and then treat them with a lifelike dental filling.