Dental Advices

Orthodontic treatment solves health and even emotional problems; it gives back the ability to smile, it boosts confidence, and is altogether good for the person’s wellbeing.

Orthodontic treatment is considered to put the patient at a higher risk of tooth decay, and the numbers confirm it; orthodontic patients are some 60% more likely to have some form of tooth decay than patients without braces. Why is this?

Julia was a little girl, who was only 8 years old when she got her glasses. When she went to her new school, she was the only girl in her class who had them, and she was taunted by the other girls in her class for it.

Toothache is not actually a dental problem - it is a symptom, and can be a symptom of many different dental problems. Toothaches are caused by the dental nerve being somehow bothered and sending pain signals to the brain.

A root canal treatment is a rather drastic attempt to save an infected or thoroughly decayed tooth.

Smokers frequently feel indignant because many procedures will say that any and all guarantees are void if you smoke.

The status of your mouth and therefore the problems that it may experience change over time; a small change can change the status of your teeth and can lead to some new and unwanted consequences.

A patient once asked her dentist: “which teeth should I floss?” The dentist chuckled and replied: “only the ones you wanna keep”.

Dentists do not like oral piercings, and there is a considerable amount of misunderstanding as to why they don’t. Dentists are not opposed to oral piercings because they look ugly, or because they impede the treatment in any way, they do not like them because of the potentially negative effects of having a lip or tongue ring.

Radical new ideas are frequently the ones that end up setting trends. If you are always thinking in terms of what is allowed and what is common practice, you can improve upon the practice itself, but you will not revolutionize and reinvent it. A small dental practice in Seattle has realized this, and have come up with a brand new, super effective way to combat dentophobia; by bringing a puppy.