According to a new study, there are more than a million visits to the emergency room–or emergency department–every year for dental conditions. Many of the conditions could have been treated or prevented with routine dental care and oral hygiene, and patients often receive inferior care when they go to the emergency room for dental conditions.
Read Dental StoryFor most people, dental implants are an easy solution to tooth loss. There’s no special care required: just do your normal oral hygiene routine and make your visits to your dentist to ensure your new tooth integrates properly with your jawbone and remains healthy. But for diabetics, it’s not so easy.
Read Dental StoryAs retailers are finishing packing away the Christmas decorations and rolling out the avalanche of hearts for Valentine’s Day, it creates a social crush that can lead to a wide variety of feelings, depending on who you are and where you are in your life. For people in a committed relationship, you might think about what to do for your beloved on a special day, and scramble to get reservations for that hard-to-book restaurant. Or it may just make you glad that your beloved isn’t into all that pink hearts crap.
Read Dental StoryIt used to be that car accident were one of the most common causes of serious dental injury. Thankfully, seatbelts and airbags have significantly reduced the number of people who experience dental injuries in car accidents, and when they do occur, they tend to be much less serious than they used to be. But if you have been involved in a car accident, you might be left with serious damage to your smile. And that can be critical if your livelihood depends on your smile.
Read Dental StoryDental implants are the gold standard for those who are looking to replace missing teeth. Traditionally, a dentist uses titanium implants, which are not only strong but also allow for the jawbone to grow around the implant through a process called osseointegration. With that being said, not all dental implants are created equal. While studies have shown that dental implant success rate is relatively high, there are some drawbacks primarily due to the use of titanium instead of a more bioinert material.
Read Dental StoryWe know that gum disease is linked to a wide range of health problems. For years, we have tried to determine whether there was a link between gum disease and Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
Read Dental StoryIf you are looking to straighten your smile, these days you have two great options: Invisalign and braces. Here is a guide to help you decide which is the right choice for you.
Read Dental StoryFirst of all, let us congratulate the Los Angeles Dodgers on making the postseason this week with a victory on Wednesday night. However, we were disappointed to see that, among the shenanigans in the locker room after the game, outfielder Yasiel Puig took the opportunity to be a really bad role model and open beer bottles with his teeth.
Read Dental StoryKanye West has every reason to smile. A beautiful wife. A beautiful daughter. A fortune worth an estimated $130 million. A cultural legacy that will probably outlive anyone alive today. And yet, he is a man who doesn’t smile. And recently he shared the reason why. Kanye’s Reasons Kanye said that he has two reasons he doesn’t smile:
Read Dental StoryWisdom teeth are essentially vestigial. They are teeth that our ancient ancestors needed to fill up a larger jaw that grew in response to eating tough food that required us to chew for about half the day. Wisdom teeth were also needed to make sure we still had teeth at the ripe old age of 35, the expected lifespan for most prehistoric humans.
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