When it comes to repairing a tooth, you often have several different options for accomplishing your goals, depending on the nature and extent of the tooth’s damage. However, when it comes to replacing one, several, or all of the teeth on your dental ridge, your treatment choices typically boil down to the restoration that best fits the extent of your tooth loss. For example, patients who’ve lost all of the healthy, natural teeth on their upper or lower dental ridge often rebound from the loss with help from a custom-designed denture, preferably one that’s supported by a series of dental implant posts. (more…)
What Some People Need Before Dental Implants
When your smile loses one or more teeth, it loses several different aspects that contribute to its overall function. The most obvious of these aspects is your ability to bite and chew your food comfortably, which can be affected by the imbalance caused by the empty space in your teeth’s ranks. Other, much less obvious aspects include the ability of your healthy, natural teeth to absorb all of your bite’s pressure, and to translate that pressure into stimulation for the jawbone structure that supports them. Fortunately, many patients can restore these and most other aspects of their oral health and bite function with the help of dental implants. (more…)
Why It’s Important to Fix a Cracked Tooth
Many people expect to know if a tooth cracks. In many cases, such damage to your teeth can occur from accidental trauma, and it’s immediately noticeable as soon as it occurs. However, that isn’t always the case, and sometimes, cracks can develop in your tooth more gradually. When this occurs, it might not seem as important to address the issue at first. However, any crack in your tooth can become a significant and more immediate threat to your oral health if it isn’t addressed promptly. Today, examine why it’s important to fix a cracked tooth, even if it doesn’t seem serious now. (more…)
What Invisalign® Treatment Can Help You Avoid
When your teeth aren’t aligned the way they’re meant to be, their misalignment can lead to several additional concerns that you might not think of right away. For example, their appearance may tell you that your teeth are crooked, but it’s the way they meet each other when you bite and chew that can have an even more significant impact on your immediate and long-term oral health. Today, we take a look at a few of these potential impacts, and why treatment with Invisalign® may be a good idea to help you avoid them. (more…)
Have Your Wisdom Teeth Become Impacted?
Wisdom teeth, or third molars, are widely recognized. Unfortunately, that’s often because they’re frequently the source of significant problems, particularly when they become impacted before they can erupt properly. Though it isn’t always easy to know when wisdom teeth become impacted at first, the symptoms and consequences of it will become increasingly more noticeable as they continue trying to grow. Today, we look at a few things that might tell you your wisdom teeth are impacted, and why it’s important to consider extracting them as soon as possible. (more…)
Restoring a Tooth Before You Lose It
When your natural teeth become compromised in certain ways, the risks that the damage poses aren’t always obvious. For instance, you may not realize that a crack in your tooth could leave its inner tissues and nerves exposed to bacterial infection. Or, you may not suspect that the tooth may be lost or require extraction if the damage gets worse. The potential long-term risks to your tooth stem from the fact that a damaged tooth doesn’t repair itself. In order to save and preserve the tooth, your dentist will have to carefully examine it and help you choose the most appropriate restoration to stop the damage from getting worse. (more…)
3 Things that Can Make Your Teeth Weaker
Your teeth are healthiest when they’re strong, and they’re designed to maintain their strength and integrity in numerous ways. For example, the enamel that surrounds them is the most resilient substance your body produces, and when healthy, it can effectively protect your teeth from immense bite pressure, harmful oral bacteria, and more. Also, the alignment of your teeth makes them more efficient at absorbing your bite’s pressure without sustaining any damage. However, there are some factors that might weaken your teeth and their overall integrity, and today, we examine how a few of these factors can impact your oral health overall. (more…)
Choosing Between a Dental Bridge and Dental Implant
After losing a tooth, it’s important to consider the best solution for replacing it as soon as possible. Fortunately, many people can benefit from a healthier, fuller smile with the help of the right custom-designed tooth replacement. Traditionally, this meant a dental bridge that consists of a highly lifelike replacement tooth and one or two supportive dental crowns. However, for some patients, a dental implant may be a better solution for supporting their lifelike tooth replacement. (more…)
Reasons Why Your Teeth Might Become Damaged
Some oral health concerns can have consequences that aren’t obvious at first. When these consequences do start to become noticeable, you may not realize that they’re the result of a condition you’ve experienced for a while now. In some cases, these consequences may include various levels of damage to your healthy, natural tooth structure. The cause and consequences of this damage can differ for everyone, and on the first steps to successfully restoring your smile could be identifying the specific reason why your tooth has become damaged. (more…)
Tooth Extraction – The Last Resort for a Damaged Tooth
When your teeth experience varying levels of damage, the right custom-designed restorative treatment can usually help you address the problem and preserve their health and integrity. The process of extracting the tooth isn’t typically an option, unless there is no other restorative treatment that can successfully save the tooth. Because of this, the recommendation to extract your tooth can have several important implications. On one hand, it means that your tooth is in serious trouble, and can threaten your oral health if it remains. On the other hand, it means you have a chance to mitigate this threat and restore your smile more effectively. (more…)
