Why Should Anyone Visit A Dentist?

When people play sports, or work around the house, or do practically anything else, and they injure themselves, most of the time they know about it right away, because something hurts. If we even just scrape our shinbone against a coffee-table, it will hurt us even before we see any evidence of the injury. That’s […]

Dental Implants In Contemporary Restorative Dentistry

It is a well-established principle of Dentistry, that unless there is no other option, teeth should not be extracted. But, except for teeth removed for orthodontic reasons, if a tooth needs to be extracted, it should be replaced – one way or another – as soon as possible. Also, most of the time, missing teeth […]

Looking for a Dental Practice? Here are some helpful tips.

In choosing a dental practice there are five variables to evaluate. Imagine that there are two proto-stereotypical solo dental practices: Poor-work and Good-work. Let’s evaluate these five variables and what they might mean. The number of people in the reception room (sometimes called a “waiting room”). Poor-work Good-work The room may be full of people. […]

Why Do Root Canal Treated Teeth Break

Root canal treatment is often the choice whenever a tooth causes serious pain to an individual. The tooth may hurt for one of many different reasons. 1. There is very deep, extensive tooth decay that has affected the nerve. 2. There is a very large, extensive filling in that tooth (that may have been there […]

Your Teeth May be Telling You Something!

If your teeth could talk, what might they say? One of the interesting things about teeth is that they can only provide one kind of response. If anything stimulates a tooth, the tooth hurts. The other major organ in the mouth, the tongue, is able to discriminate between heat and cold, sweet and sour, acidic […]