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How Dental Crown Materials Affect Their Average Lifespan

How Dental Crown Materials Affect Their Average Lifespan

When considering dental crowns, the material you choose will have a huge impact on longevity. Learn about each material option and what it can mean for the lifespan of your dental crown What Is the Average Lifespan of Porcelain Fused to Metal Crowns? Porcelain fused to metal (PFM) crowns have...
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why dental crowns veneers and tooth color stop matching over time

Why Crowns, Veneers, and Tooth Color Stop Matching Over Time

When Your Smile Doesn’t Match So, you look at yourself in the mirror and you see that sometimes your natural teeth aren’t really matching up with the crowns or veneers you’ve had done over the years. And you’ve tried bleaching strips. You may have even gone to the dentist office...
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Before You Get Veneers

Cosmetic vs Restorative Dentistry Explained

Understanding the Different Dental Terms I’m sure you’ve heard all the terms. Cosmetic dentist, restorative dentist, aesthetic dentist. A lot of confusing terms about dentistry, and a lot of patients wonder what’s the difference. Is one better than the other? Why are there so many different terms? Well, I’m here...
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why teeth matter as you age

Why Missing Teeth Can Affect Your Heart, Brain, and Health

Turning 50 and Common Dental Concerns So, you just turned 50. Congratulations. Happy birthday. And you may have a missing tooth, a couple broken down teeth, maybe your gums bleed occasionally, and you’re like, “Eh, I don’t need to get that fixed. I’m old. It doesn’t matter.” Your dental health...
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Why Porcelain Fused to Metal Crowns Remain a Trusted Restoration

Why Porcelain Fused to Metal Crowns Remain a Trusted Restoration

When getting dental restorations, one of the options you may have is a porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) crown. Here’s a closer look at these dental crowns and why they could be the right choice for you. What Are Porcelain-Fused-to-Metal Crowns and How Do They Work? Porcelain fused to metal crowns are dental...
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How Tooth Extractions Affect Your Bite and Jaw Alignment

How Tooth Extractions Affect Your Bite and Jaw Alignment

Although a tooth extraction requires only local anesthesia and typically takes just a few minutes to perform, it can affect your oral health for years to come. This procedure should not be chosen lightly. Sometimes, however, removing a tooth is the only way to resolve a serious oral health problem....
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Should You Rinse or Spit After Brushing Dentist Explains

Should You Rinse or Spit After Brushing? Dentist Explains!

Rinse or spit after brushing your teeth? This is kind of a big debate. I’ve polled a lot of my patients, and they’re pretty much split down the middle—and many ask for my opinion on the topic. From a dental and biologic standpoint, here’s what I recommend. Why Fluoride Matters...
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Yellow Teeth Heres How to Get a Whiter Brighter Smile Safely

Yellow Teeth? Here’s How to Get a Whiter, Brighter Smile Safely

How to Go From Yellow Teeth to White Teeth Step 1: Understand Why Your Teeth Are Yellow You’ve got yellow teeth, and you want white teeth. Here’s how we can get from this situation to this situation. The first step is figuring out why your teeth are yellow. Sometimes, perfectly...
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Dental Terms You Need to Know Part 2

Dental Terms You Need to Know – Part 2

Dental Terms Patients Should Know Prosthesis, abutment, occlusal guard,  osteointegration. What are these words? I’m a prosthodontist, and I’m going to break down some of the words that we use in our everyday language and help translate them into everyday terms. Prosthesis “Prosthesis” is just a general term for anything...
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Dental Terms You Need To Know – Part 1

Simplifying Dental Jargon Don’t you hate it when your dentist uses confusing words that you’ve never heard before, like “occlusion,” “atrophy,” and “osseointegration”? I’m here to help. Plaque Plaque is the accumulation of bacteria on the surfaces of the teeth. Often, it hasn’t been there for long and is easily...
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How to Prevent Dry Socket After a Tooth Extraction

How to Prevent Dry Socket After a Tooth Extraction

A tooth extraction is sometimes a necessary step to take for your oral health. You may have a severely decayed tooth that cannot be saved via a root canal, or gum disease could have made the tooth loosen enough to require its removal. Perhaps your wisdom teeth must be removed...
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When Is a Tooth Extraction Preferable to a Root Canal?

When Is a Tooth Extraction Preferable to a Root Canal?

When you sustain significant and irreversible damage to a tooth, leading to root issues such as infections, there are two main options to choose from: a root canal or a tooth extraction. Having to choose between these two treatment options can be stressful. In most cases, your dentist will try...
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traditional crown being placed on the tooth

Choosing Between Same-Day Crowns and Traditional Crowns

If you have a chipped, cracked, or otherwise damaged tooth, one of the most effective ways of preventing the issue from getting worse is by getting a dental crown. Dental crowns are tooth-shaped caps that fully cover a weak or damaged tooth, helping to restore strength and function. There are...
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Best tooth filling option

Tooth Fillings Explained: Composite vs. Amalgam vs. Ceramic

Why Fillings Are Necessary Let’s play the filling game. What’s in your filling? Composite, amalgam, or ceramic? There are lots of options that modern dentists have to fill a tooth. But let’s start from the beginning: why is it necessary to do a filling? Whenever we find decay on a...
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Is it too late for dental implants

Can You Get Dental Implants Decades After Tooth Loss?

Is It Too Late for Implants? So, you lost a tooth in your 20s, and now it’s 25 or 30 years later, you’re in your 40s, you’ve got the time and the money, and you really want to replace it. Is that an option? Yes, absolutely. Implants are a great...
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