Category: Restorative Dentistry

Preventive Dentistry: You’ve Got This

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Winning with Preventive Dentistry Do you love the sense of accomplishment you feel after tackling a tough task? Are you energized by challenges, both at work and at home? If you love the rush of victory you feel when you’ve completed something, it is high time you schedule that dental visit you have delayed. Many people shift dental checkups to the proverbial backburner when life gets busy, but there are compelling reasons to attend regular checkups and cleanings. If you want to keep your smile healthy, stop putting off your next preventive dental visit.

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What You Haven’t Heard About Root Canal Therapy

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Root Canal Therapy There are many urban legends surrounding root canal treatment, one of the most prominent of which is that they’re quite painful. But root canals are actually one of the best ways to save an infected tooth, and to eliminate the pain associated with it. If you want to maintain the health and beauty of your natural smile, root canal therapy may be necessary. It doesn’t have to be something to dread, though. Understanding what’s really involved in treatment can help ease your fears, and prepare you to seek the care you may need. Continue reading “What You Haven’t Heard About Root Canal Therapy” →

Dental Bridge Your Way to a Better Smile

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Dental Bridge Illustration Have you been unhappy with your smile since you lost a tooth or had one extracted? Many people try to postpone restorative treatment, especially if their missing tooth was at the back of the mouth. Unfortunately, failing to complete a smile after tooth loss can have several repercussions beyond the cosmetic. Missing teeth can make it difficult to chew as well as you would with a complete smile, but they can also cause your remaining teeth to shift out of alignment. This can, in turn, make it even more difficult to bite and could cause you to lose more teeth. Dental bridges are one popular way of addressing tooth loss, because they offer stability and beauty.

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Dental Fillings

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composite Although the best dental filling is no dental filling, most people require at least one filling at some point in their lives. Usually by the time they reach young adulthood. The best thing, of course, is to have no or very few fillings. Once your tooth is filled, especially if it is a large cavity, if something else were to happen to it–for instance a break or fracture–it can take more time, money, and discomfort to save the tooth. However, if you do need a dental filling, composite fillings have become the popular choice.

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Broken Tooth? Large Filling? What Are Your Options?

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broken tooth Once your teeth have been filled, especially if they have been filled for years, you tend to take them for granted. It’s not at the front of your mind that your tooth might break or that your filling might fall out. Of course those things could happen, just not to you, right? Well, let’s say it did. Let’s say that you have a huge filling in one of your molars and while you were eating your molar broke. There is no pain, but now you only have half a tooth, but the whole filling. What are your options?

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Learn More About Partial Dentures

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partial dents Are those few missing teeth nagging at you every time you look in the mirror? Maybe you can hardly see them when you smile, or maybe to you they seem glaring. Regardless of whether or not they are noticeable, there are reasons to fill in those spaces. If you are not yet ready or interested in implant treatment, there are other ways such as partial dentures. You can learn more about partial dentures with the questions and answers below.                                     

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Do You Need Root Canal Therapy?

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rctherapy Don’t panic. It is not as bad as you think. Root canal therapy is really not any worse than getting a tooth filled. In fact, it is very similar and was developed as a procedure to save teeth. Once you lose your tooth or get it pulled more serious problems can develop. Your teeth can shift and your underlying jawbone can begin to atrophy (deteriorate). If either or both of these things happen you will have much bigger problems on your hands than a root canal. Take the quiz below to find out if you need root canal therapy.

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How Complex Is Dental Crown Placement?

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complex A dental crown is a fabricated tooth to restore the original damaged tooth. It is replicated in the shape of the original tooth, the same size and shade. It is to restore your chewing function and, of course, your smile. Some dental treatments are complex, like implants, while others are non- or minimally invasive. Placing a dental crown is not a complex procedure.  It is minimally invasive and only requires a few steps.

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Not Just About Cosmetics…

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dentbridg Replacing a tooth is not merely for cosmetic reasons. Your tooth performs a function. It breaks up your food into tiny pieces so it is easier to swallow. As you are chewing, your saliva helps soften and break down the food too. Losing even a single tooth can cause discomfort and inconvenience when trying to eat. That’s why replacing a tooth is not just about cosmetics, it is also about function.

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How Do You Decide If A Crown Is For You?

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decs Having a tooth crowned is much better than having it pulled. You should try to maintain as much of the healthy tooth structure as possible whenever you are having a dental problem. Pulling a tooth means that you will eventually need a dental bridge or an implant. A dental bridge can require more invasive dental work than a crown, and an implant requires highly invasive and complex surgery. If you are trying to decide whether to have a tooth pulled or crowned, take our true or false quiz below to help decide if a crown is right for you.  

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