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On August 20 and 21, the Sands Regency Casino Hotel will play host to the Pacifica Festival. This all-ages gathering is a celebration of diverse Polynesian and Asian cultures. The event, hosted by the Pacifica Community Organization, seeks to help people of different Pacific Island cultures to connect. It will also offer information about these (more…).

Hopefully, dental visits that lead to the finding that you need work done on a tooth are few and far between. When you keep up with good oral care – which means a combination of regular checkups and at-home care – you stand a better chance of keeping your teeth healthy. Unfortunately, sometime problems like tooth (more…).

Putting a timely stop to gum disease is vital to your long-term oral health. When gum disease advances to the stage of periodontitis, it can cause soft tissue and bone around a tooth’s base to deteriorate. This creates a risk that you will lose the tooth, or need to have it extracted. Unfortunately, at this (more…).

Replacing a lost tooth can help you regain confidence in your smile, and it can also make it easier to perform tasks like chewing and eating. A properly-placed dental prosthetic will be in place firmly enough to hold up whenever you use it for biting and chewing. Its cosmetic impact should be to make you (more…).

A chipped or cracked tooth can be painful, and certainly unpleasant. If you have suffered an injury that leaves a visible mark on a tooth – or an injury that mars several teeth – you may need cosmetic dental work to restore your appearance. When it comes to taking care of superficial damage, you have (more…).

On Sunday, July 31, local residents can come out to downtown Reno and enjoy a day of fun thanks to the Open Streets event. Streets will be blocked off from car usage, so people can move about freely on foot, or on bike. There will be many vendors on site, with special food offerings, as (more…).

Let’s say you need restorative work on a tooth. If the work is serious enough – for instance, if you needed a root canal for your tooth – you should expect to need a dental crown. A dental crown can cover the whole of your tooth above the gum line. It protects it from further (more…).

On July 17, Reno’s annual Reno Artown event is going to the dogs. This date marks the 16th annual Art Paws, the one day where visitors are allowed – and encouraged – to take their pets. You can take your pet out with thousands of other pets and pet owners, and explore the art scene (more…).

There are many ways in which you, and your dentist, can help you keep your oral health in its best form. Your dentist is available for regular checkups – in fact, you are recommended to attend semiannually for those visits. There are also measures you can take on your own, some of which you may (more…).

When it comes to taking care of a lost tooth, a dental implant can be effective, reliable, and even beneficial to your jaw’s health. Unlike other prosthetic types, having an implant means addressing the loss of a tooth AND its root. Once the implant is successfully placed, and has had proper time to heal, your (more…).