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  • Tiny Teeth, Huge Advances: How Saving Baby Teeth Can Improve Your Health

    Chances are, when you got to the age that your baby teeth started falling out, you eagerly looked forward to each one leaving your mouth, as it heralded a visit from the Tooth Fairy with a shiny coin or two to add to your piggy bank. But it turns out that your teeth are worth a bit more than the Tooth Fairy is willing to pay – those teeth contain stem cells within their pulp, and saving them could end up restoring your health later in life.
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  • 2 Tips For Preventing Tartar Buildup Around Your Removable Partial Dentures

    Removable partial dentures can be a convenient solution to fixing a few missing teeth. They can easily be accessed when it comes time to clean them. However, unless your partial dentures are cleaned properly, they will accumulate food and other debris. This will turn into plaque and harden into tartar. If your partial dentures have a tan discoloration, then this may be a sign of tartar buildup. Allowing tartar to build up on your dentures can be dangerous for your teeth.
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  • How Do Dental Crowns Work?

    Dental crowns play a massive role in modern dental work, so it isn't particularly surprising that you might need to get at least one at some point in your life. Crowns can be used to handle a wide variety of problems and are excellent for restoring the shape and integrity of a tooth. To help you get a better understanding of how the installation process works and why you might need to get a crown, here are some tips:
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  • Immediate Loading Of Dental Implants: A Primer

    If you are going to undergo dental implant surgery, it's important to note that, in some cases, you will not have false teeth installed immediately. Rather, the implant process revolves around installing a sort of "base" in your upper or lower jaw and some time will be given in which it is revealed whether your body will accept or reject the implants. However, in other cases, the false teeth can be loaded in 24 to 48 hours after the surgery.
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  • When To Use A Cement Crown Or A Screw Crown For An Implant

    When you lose a tooth, you need to restore your smile for more than cosmetic reasons. When you put pressure on a tooth, it will travel down the root and stimulate new growth in the bone. When you lose a tooth, the bone loses this stimulus, the bone stops replenishing, and the teeth around it can start to migrate. A dental implant can restore this stimulus, but you will need to choose between a screw-on crown and a cemented crown.
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  • Dentures: 3 Types, How Long They Last And Expected Difficulties When First Installed

    Perhaps you need dentures but you don't really know much about them. Here are a few details about three types of dentures, the difficulties experienced immediately after their installation and their general longevity.  What are dentures? Dentures are custom-made replacements for either all or some of your teeth. To create the appliances, an impression is taken of your mouth, and the dentures are made to fit perfectly over your gums. They look like your natural teeth and are removable.
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  • 3 Orthodontic Options For Adults

    Many adults have misaligned teeth. Dental misalignment in adults can stem from hereditary factors. However, adults who have crooked teeth may suffer from this due to shifting that has taken place over time. Still, most dental misalignment for adults can be corrected using orthodontic applications. Here are a few orthodontic solutions that may be preferred by adults due to their discrete nature: Lingual Braces Lingual braces are metal braces that are applied to the side of the teeth that is next to the tongue.
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  • Qualifications You Should Look For When Choosing The Perfect Pediatric Dentist For Your Child

    The experiences that a child incurs during his or her dental visits can help define his or her lifelong perception of professional dental care. It is important to find a pediatric dentist that your child can trust. Here are a few qualifications you should look for when choosing the perfect dentist for your child: Pediatric Training Ask about the dentist's education. If he or she is a pediatric dentist, in addition to four years of dentistry school, he or she should have two additional years of residency training in caring for the teeth of  infants, small children and teens.
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  • 3 Tips For Having An Improved Smile

    Looking your best while going out in the world daily may be high on your to-do list. Having a nice smile can provide you with a greater level of self-confidence by having pride in your appearance. The smile you have will play a significant role in how well you appear to others. This is typically one of the first things that may be noticed by people that you meet. If you aren't pleased with the teeth you have, you may want to make some significant changes.
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  • Enjoy Drinking Red Wine? Follow These Tricks That Will Prevent Teeth Staining

    If you love to drink red wine, it's possible that the drink is causing your teeth to stain. If you simply can't give up your wine drinking habit, and don't want to resort to teeth whitening right away, there are some ways to prevent teeth staining from happening. Try following these tips so that the red wine doesn't affect the color of your teeth. Clean Your Mouth Before You Drink
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