Today’s modern tooth replacement options, like dental bridges and dentures, are typically designed to blend in almost seamlessly with your healthy, natural teeth. The importance of this goes beyond the restoration’s appearance, though. Mimicking the size, shape, and contour of your natural teeth also makes the restoration more able to restore your bite’s ability to… Read more »
Author: Dr. Slaughter
How to Know It’s Time to Remove a Wisdom Tooth
When wisdom teeth (or third molars) start to cause problems due to impaction, the need to extract them can become a pressing one. However, wisdom tooth impaction can occur in many different ways, and the severity of the symptoms aren’t always the same for everyone. In many cases, these symptoms may not be immediately noticeable… Read more »
Notes About Caring for Dental Implants At Home
Many of the benefits that come with replacing lost teeth with dental implants involve the long-term health and integrity of your smile. For instance, dental implants help restore stimulation that’s necessary to maintain the health and integrity of your dental ridges. However, many of the benefits are also more immediately noticeable, and can directly impact… Read more »
The Most Common Consequences of Tooth Loss
Tooth loss isn’t something that everyone will have to deal with, but it’s something that everyone should worry about preventing. That’s because many of the causes that lead to it can affect almost anyone, such as severe gum disease. Once it does occur, however, the consequences of tooth loss can pose even greater threats to… Read more »
3 Important Questions About Dental Implants
Tooth loss is what most people try to avoid by practicing good hygiene and attending regular dental visits. Unfortunately, teeth may be lost for a wide variety of reasons, and some are not always preventable. The good news is that high-quality dental care also includes restoring your smile after tooth loss as well as preventing… Read more »
What Wisdom Tooth Extraction Accomplishes
Some people know enough about wisdom teeth – the common name for third molars – that they almost expect theirs to cause trouble at some point, even if they haven’t yet. Others may be completely surprised when their wisdom teeth start to hurt, believing that theirs were growing and developing just fine. When wisdom teeth… Read more »
Addressing Tooth Loss with the Help of Dental Implants
When you’ve experienced tooth loss, restoring your smile from it is about more than just restoring its appearance before the loss. That appearance might be the first thing that people notice about your condition, but it isn’t what has the greatest impact on your overall oral health, or bite function. Therefore, to truly restore your… Read more »
The Compounding Risks that Lead to Tooth Loss
In many ways, maintaining your oral health can be both simple and complex at the same time. For instance, the basics of good dental hygiene are fairly easy – brush your teeth at least twice a day and floss at least once. However, what if the plaque you’re supposed to clean with your toothbrush and… Read more »
When Oral Surgery Is the Answer to Your Oral Health Needs
Some dental health concerns are common and can impact nearly anyone, such as tooth decay and gum disease. In many cases, such concerns can be easily addressed with the right level of general or restorative dental care. However, some patients may experience issues with their oral tissues and/or structures that can’t be addressed by general… Read more »
3 Things Your Tooth Replacement Should Be Able to Do
When you experience tooth loss, it’s more than just your tooth that’s lost. Your smile feels the impact in everything from its appearance to the way it functions when you bite and chew, and much more. To address the many different effects of tooth loss, your replacement option should closely mimic the appearance of your… Read more »