Gift Yourself and Your Loved Ones With a Healthier Smile

Your daily brushing and flossing routine is crucial to thwarting dreaded cavities and gum disease from invading your smile, but by itself, it’s still not enough to maintain top-notch oral health. There is a reason we recommend regular dental cleanings and exams! Seeing our dental team for routine dental checkups and cleanings supports your daily... Read more »

The Difference Between Full and Partial Dentures

Do you know the important differences between full and partial dentures? Our team is happy to review both versions for optimal tooth replacement to help you better understand how they can restore your smile. Below we will review the main types of dentures, which are full and partial dentures, and the benefits they have to... Read more »

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month & Dental Hygiene Month

October is here and fall has officially begun, bringing with it Breast Cancer Awareness Month as well as National Dental Hygiene Month. This is a time to raise awareness for both and help to prevent problems by monitoring your health and being mindful of your lifestyle choices. Whether you are fighting cancer or dental problems,... Read more »

Dental Implant Placement Basics as a Step-by-Step Process

If you have ever lost a tooth, you might have more than just a gap between your teeth. If a lost tooth is not replaced, the bone in the jaw that supported the lost tooth starts to deteriorate. That’s because when you chew your food, there’s no more stimulation to the bone from the missing... Read more »

Enamel-Friendly Foods for Your Teeth

When it comes to protecting your teeth, your first line of defense against tooth decay and cavities is tooth enamel, as it is the outermost covering that protects the more vulnerable dentin and tooth pulp below. Your enamel comes equipped for the job as the hardest substance in your body. However, because it doesn’t have... Read more »

How Routine Dental Checkups Help Your Smile in the Long Run

When you come in for dental exams and we have cleaned your teeth and gum line and removed any hardened plaque, our dentist can look at them for any signs of trouble, such as cavities, loose or broken teeth, damaged fillings, and evaluate your risk rate of certain diseases which might also take into account... Read more »

Oral Health Care in Spring: Dry Mouth Treatments and Prevention

To help keep your smile safe from various oral health risks that can often arise, it is important to assess all potential risk factors in your life and how they can negatively affect your teeth and gums. To keep your smile safe, be aware of any issues that result in a downturn of saliva. Saliva… Read more »

Discussing Dentistry: Mouth Guards

To help limit the signs of dental damage that may arise, you should make sure you’re using the appropriate mouth guard treatments. If your mouth guards are not designed to contour to your exact dental impression, you could be putting your teeth at risk of various forms of dental damage. Not only can you end… Read more »

Oral Health Care Plans: Jaw and Facial Pain Prevention

Several causes of oral accidents and injuries often arise that are linked to jaw and facial pain. Jaw pain can result from tenderness in the bone structures within your mouth as well as issues associated with biting, or headaches and earaches that you may be experiencing. Unfortunately, there are several different causes of jaw pain… Read more »

Replacing a Missing Tooth with a Dental Implant

Severe dental trauma and untreated cavities can sometimes cause severe damage to a tooth’s root. In some of these cases the dental structure is so badly compromised that a like Dr. needs to perform an emergency extraction. After your gums have healed and any infection concerns have abated can help you understand your dental restoration… Read more »