Do you have bad breath? The problem with bad breath, is that sometimes you have no idea it is your problem, until someone tells you. It is an embarrassing thing to have to go through, but it is something that many people deal with. Bad breath is offensive and it disgusts people. When food is…
A lot of patients come into the dentist with this concern, “Why are my gums bleeding”. They didn’t just have a tooth extraction or surgery, so there is no wound to be the definite source of the bleed, so they are wondering where all the blood is coming from. When asked further, they will reveal…
A mouthguard is a rubber or silicon-made appliance that a person wears for protection. A dentist may prescribe it to the upper or lower arch for various reasons: Night grinding. The most common use a mouthguard is as a nightguard. When a patient is a known bruxer he or she has involuntary clenching and night…
The entire body is connected by an intricate lacing of nerves. It runs along with the veins, arteries, capillaries and lymph vessels. In the mouth, there are complicated nerve innervations that course through the different structures of the mouth to supply the soft tissues, the teeth and the bone. This intricate webbing goes through the…
The maintenance of oral health is two-fold and is categorized as the efforts to take at home and the work that the dentist performs in the dental clinic. Good oral health is maintained through this combination and not independently. While everyone is encouraged to see their dentists every six months or twice a year, the…
Orthodontic treatment with braces is the go-to treatment of choice if you have misaligned teeth. If you have crooked, crowded and rotated teeth, you can straighten them out with braces. If you have a severe overbite or overjet, and your teeth are crossed, you can fix everything with braces. The treatment involves the use of…
When a tooth becomes infected with caries, the hard tissues of the teeth get destroyed, and they break. Depending on the severity of the decay, the infection may encroach to the area of the pulp, so that a regular tooth filling is contraindicated. When this happens, a root canal is performed, and this renders the…
A diastema is a space in between the teeth. That could either develop as a consequence of tooth or teeth loss, following teeth migration or shifting; or it could be an innate condition brought about by smaller teeth, frenum position or jaw size. Regardless of why the teeth are spaced away from each other, patients…
Many people are quick to dismiss the health of their gums. When they think of oral health, they believe that it’s all about the teeth, but they forget that the health of the soft tissues of the mouth matter too. As a matter of fact, the teeth relies on the health of the gums to…
The whole ordeal of choosing dental implants over traditional methods is a big deal. It is a more complicated and more expensive treatment, so after going through what you did, it is only natural that you’d want to protect your investment. To maximize the lifetime of your implants and make sure that you get to…