While good dental hygiene and continuously healthy teeth can sometimes be more complex than you expect, the general rule is to keep your teeth as clean as possible, for as long as possible. That’s because the microbes the dirty their surface every day – the bacteria that make up dental plaque – can pose a serious threat to your teeth and oral tissues they aren’t cleaned away consistently. The most important step in doing so is to develop and stick to a good dental hygiene routine every single day. Yet, it may take a little more than just brushing and flossing your teeth to keep them as clean as they need to be to remain healthy for life. (more…)
Cosmetic Treatments that Actually Fix Your Teeth
When most people consider cosmetic dental treatment, it stems from a desire to improve their smiles’ appearance. As the name suggests, cosmetic dentistry is mainly focused on improving the most visible aspects of your smile in a minimally invasive manner. With the use of more advanced technologies, as well as more durable and lifelike dental materials, today’s cosmetic dental treatments can also do a good job of repairing and fortifying tooth structure that’s been worn down or damaged. In addition to making your smile appear healthier and more attractive, these treatments can also restore and preserve the long-term health and integrity of your teeth. (more…)
Why Some Toothaches Don’t Go Away
There’s a lot you can do to maintain your good oral health at home, most importantly, brushing and flossing your teeth consistently every day. For example, you can also avoid certain foods to prevent compromising your teeth, and stop yourself from doing things like grinding your teeth together. In some cases, you can even alleviate a sensitive tooth with an over-the-counter oral analgesic, or other at-home remedy. However, unlike keeping up with good preventive hygiene, dealing with a problem like a toothache that’s already developed may not be as simple as choosing the right at-home remedy. Depending on the cause of your toothache, it may not go away until you seek treatment for it from your dentist. (more…)
Why Do People Still Lose Teeth?
The good thing about your healthy, natural adult teeth is that, with the right care and maintenance, you have an excellent chance at keeping them for life. That chance has grown significantly for many people as dental technologies and hygiene techniques have advanced over the years. However, while the rates of adult tooth loss have dropped in that time, it hasn’t reached zero percent, and tooth loss still remains a threat for many people. That’s often because losing one or more teeth is the result of an underlying concern that they didn’t realize had gotten so bad, or that wasn’t preventable with routine dental health care. (more…)
A Few Considerations About Tooth Extraction
When you need restorative dental treatment to address a problem with your tooth, you might expect that the right custom restoration can save your tooth no matter what the problem is. However, despite the advanced nature of restorative dentistry today, there are still concerns that can’t be effectively resolved by placing a tooth filling or dental crown over a tooth. Today, we look at the need for tooth extraction in some cases, and what the procedure can mean for your immediate and long-term oral health. (more…)
Better Ways to Think About Root Canal Treatment
If you’ve never had root canal treatment before and are told that you need it now, then it may not seem like a good thing for your smile at first. Depending on stories you’ve heard about root canals, you might even be nervous about needing the procedure at all. However, modern root canal treatment is a much more conservative and comfortable process than patients often expect. Even more importantly, it could be the only way to save a tooth that’s severely infected, and to help you alleviate the symptoms that come along with it. (more…)
Fixing a Fractured or Broken Tooth
Despite the fact that they’re the strongest and most resilient parts of your body, your teeth aren’t completely immune to suffering damage. In fact, fixing a worn down, fractured, or broken tooth is a common goal of restorative dental care, and this type of damage can occur for a wide variety of potential reasons. Fortunately, the right custom-designed dental crown or other restoration can often help you fix a fractured or broken tooth in a way that fully restores its strength and helps prevent any further damage from occurring. (more…)
When a Tooth Develops a Cavity
Sometimes, cavities can seem like a mystery. They’re the most common chronic oral health concern, which means most people will experience one at least once in their lifetimes. Yet, they’re also among the most highly preventable concerns, which means there are definitive (and often easy) ways to prevent them from ever developing. Today, we take a look at how both can be true, and what happens when a tooth develops a cavity that makes it such a serious concerns. (more…)
What Makes Snoring a Problem for Your Sleep?
When it comes to oral health problems, you might not include chronic snoring in your list of concerns. Even if you realize that you have a snoring problem, you may not think to speak to your dentist about resolving it. However, at our office, we can help many patients overcome a chronic snoring habit with the help of a custom-designed snoring or sleep apnea appliance. Though you may not realize it at first, addressing your snoring habit could help you avoid several subsequent problems with your health and wellbeing, especially if the habit is actually a sign of obstructive sleep apnea. (more…)
When to Suspect You Might Have TMJ Disorder
TMJ disorder isn’t the kind of dental condition that you can prevent with an exceptionally good dental hygiene routine. That’s because, unlike more common dental concerns, it doesn’t develop from an excess buildup of oral bacteria and dental plaque. On the contrary, TMJ disorder can develop from a variety of different underlying factors, and when it does, the signs of its development can also vary between patients. Today, we take a look at a few of the common things to look for that might indicate TMJ disorder, and how the condition can negatively impact your oral health and bite function over time. (more…)
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