Dental Blog

Having oral surgery is no joke. Even if it’s fairly minor surgery, it does leave your mouth vulnerable to bacteria. You could easily get an infection if you aren’t careful. That’s why we make certain all of our patients know what’s safe to eat and drink and what they should avoid...

The dentures you have are not your grandmother’s dentures. Your grandmother’s dentures looked fake from the beginning. You might even remember seeing her take them out to soak them! Today’s dentures are very different from the dentures that were worn 50 or 60 years ago. Dentures today..

Dentures are great devices to restore a smile. They also give you the ability to eat the foods you love, but many foods can cause problems for denture wearers. One of the most problematic is sticky foods. Sticky foods like chewing gums and gummy candy can pose several different problems for denture wearers,..

It’s difficult to deal with a broken or chipped tooth. It can be very painful, hinder your daily dental health routine, and negatively affect your quality of life. The same thing can also be said for a tooth that has suffered damage due to decay. Fortunately, there are restorative measures that..

Simply put, dentures are prosthetic teeth that people use in case of missing teeth. They are fitted over your gums so that they can have the proper grip a tooth needs to stay strong and avoid dancing around. Dentures have come a long way from the early days. Today, dentures have become more of an art..

If you’re missing a one or several teeth, it will change how you bite down and eat food. Nearby teeth may shift in an attempt to cover the empty space, and the bone where the missing teeth were is likely to deteriorate. This can change how you look and make eating and drinking difficult or painful. A..

If you need to have most or all of your teeth replaced, you have two options: dentures or implants. Both replace your missing natural teeth with durable artificial ones, but they do so in different ways. Implants were once considered cutting-edge dentistry, but today, they’re a routine procedure..

Veneers have been around for a while now. They are basically very thin and are custom made for each client so that they can hide the flaws in your smile. Not everyone has a smile they would be proud of; this might be because of one reason or another, including the way the teeth are spaced, shaped, or..

If you have dentures, then you want to make sure that you’re using the right products to hold them in place. It can become frustrating when you are chewing, laughing, or talking and they slip out of place. Using dental creams or pads not only reduces the chances of having them slide out of place,..

There are times where the only way to heal your mouth is to extract a tooth. As soon as you have that tooth removed in our office, you’re probably going to have a small blood clot at the site of removal. The blood clot is there to protect the bone and nerve endings lying underneath and also to..