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…)
The Kinds of Problems Teeth Develop from Bruxism
People who have a problem with bruxism, or chronic teeth-grinding, don’t always realize that it’s a problem at first. For example, most of them don’t realize just how often they grind their teeth together, and the times they do notice it, the action may not seem severe. However, having a bruxism problem means that you grind your teeth a lot more often than you realize. For many people, it occurs mostly at night, and the problems that can result from bruxism can become increasingly more detrimental to your immediate and long-term oral health. (more…)
Important Questions About Tooth Loss
Many people should be worried about tooth loss. In many cases, it results from the development and progression of another oral health concern, such as tooth decay or gum disease. If you’re worried about tooth loss, you may be more likely to take steps to prevent it from occurring. However, not everyone understands the risks that they face of losing one or more teeth, or how it would impact their smiles if they fail to prevent it. If they’ve already experienced tooth loss, it’s just as important to understand the best way to restore their smiles and regain their bite’s full function. (more…)
3 Less Common, But Serious, Reasons for Teeth to Hurt
When a tooth starts to hurt, many people can make an educated guess as to why. For instance, if your dentist has told you that you’re at risk for cavities, then you might guess that your tooth hurts because one has started to develop. However, not all toothaches are the same, and even if you might think you know why your tooth hurts, there may be one or more factors at play that you aren’t aware of. Today, we examine a few less common, but equally serious, reasons for teeth to hurt, and why you should schedule a professional dental examination as soon as yours start to. (more…)
How to Save a Tooth when It Breaks
While some oral health concerns can take a while before they become obvious, a broken tooth isn’t usually something that’s easy to ignore. In many cases, it’s the result of an emergency situation that involves accidental trauma to the tooth, and both the damage and discomfort are immediately noticeable. Like most forms of tooth damage, a broken tooth must be restored as soon as possible to avoid even more damage to the tooth’s healthy, natural structure. Fortunately, the right restorative treatment can help your tooth regain its strength and integrity, as well as preserve the tooth’s long-term health and integrity. (more…)
How Implants Give Replacement Teeth Better Support
There are many different factors to consider when it comes to rebuilding your smile after tooth loss. For example, the number of teeth you’ve lost will determine what type of restoration is best for replacing them. Also, the potential impact of the loss on your remaining healthy teeth may be significant enough to require additional treatment as part of your smile restoration. However, one factor that people don’t always consider is the quality of the support that their replacement teeth rely on. This can impact everything from the comfort and stability of your restoration to the long-term health and integrity of your dental ridges, which is one reason why dental implants are often preferred for supporting most types of replacement teeth. (more…)
