Are your teeth safe from harm while you sleep? It may seem odd to think about your time at rest as a period that can be hard on your smile. However, if you are someone who suffers from bruxism – habitual teeth grinding – damage while you sleep can occur. This is because you can unconsciously grind and clench your teeth throughout the night, wearing down your enamel and making you vulnerable to real oral health problems. Our Allen, TX dentist’s office can help you address this issue. By providing you a custom oral appliance, we can give you the means to stop bruxism from doing damage to your smile while you are asleep! (more…)
What Happens When I Suffer From A Dental Emergency?
A dental emergency basically means any damage or injuries to your teeth and gums that isn’t life threatening or that doesn’t require a visit to the emergency room. However, these injuries do need immediate attention to avoid complications, such as cavities and infection or even tooth loss. In today’s blog, your Allen, TX, dentist talks about our approach to emergency dentistry.
How Should I Brush And Floss?
You need more than just your six-month checkup and cleaning visits to keep your teeth and gums strong. You also need to care for your smile from home! To accomplish this, you and your entire family need to brush and floss. In today’s blog, your Allen, TX, dentist offers tips for better oral hygiene from the comfort of your own home.
Preventing Gum Disease
Studies from the Centers for Disease Control show that half of adults over the age of 30 suffer from periodontal disease. The advanced stage of the disease is linked to issues like tooth loss! Fortunately, in today’s blog, your Allen, TX, dentist offers a few simple tips for avoiding the onset of gum disease, and recognizing the warning signs.
Talk To Us About Your Toothache
When you have pain or sensitivity in your smile, then you could benefit from restorative treatment to prevent worsening decay or infection. In today’s blog, your Allen, TX, dentist will talk about how we diagnose the cause of your discomfort, and the treatments we use to restore smiles to optimal health, function, and beauty.
Implant Dentures With All-On-Four®
If you’ve lost all of your teeth, your jawbone will weaken with time, which could impact your ability to receive implant dentures. However, your Allen, TX, dentist can offer a version that only requires four implant posts for support, helping even those with lost mass and density in the jaw receive a durable and lifelike prosthetic!
What Makes Dental Implants So Stable?
When you lose teeth, then the stability of your smile suffers. Over time, you could even lose additional teeth and develop an aged appearance! However, with dental implants, your Allen, TX, dentist can provide a stable and long-lasting solution to tooth loss, with new teeth that look natural and last for years to come!
How Should I Deal With Stained Teeth?
Teeth stains can hurt your confidence, and you can grow frustrated by failed efforts to address this issue. With store bought whitening kits and whitening toothpaste products, you can see some improvements, but you can feel let down by the overall changes. Your Allen, TX dentist’s office can offer a treatment to make more noticeable improvements. With a personalized whitening kit provided by our practice, you can make your enamel brighter by many shades and enjoy an exciting change in your appearance! We can also take care of problems with discoloration that are linked to issues other than stains. (more…)
How Do We Create A Full Denture?
Our last blog was all about partials, which help those with tooth loss too severe for bridges, but not major enough to address total tooth loss. However, if you have lost all, or most, of your teeth, then you may benefit from a full set of dentures. In today’s blog, your Allen, TX, dentist will discuss how we create these tooth loss solutions. You don’t have to live with an incomplete smile anymore!
A Complete Smile With Our Partial Dentures
In our previous blog, we looked at how a bridge addresses minor cases of tooth loss. But what if you have lost a large number of teeth? For many, a custom-made partial denture could help patients in Allen, TX, enjoy a complete smile again. In today’s blog, we’re looking at our lifelike and durable dental prosthetics.
