If you were asked to describe a car in a blurry picture, it would be difficult to give very much detail. Now if you were asked to do the same but using a pristine clear photograph, and better yet, one that was three dimensional and able to rotate, it would be much easier to describe […]
Why does it hurt so bad when you have a toothache? When you get an infected tooth it will cause inflammation just like any other part of the body. Usually when inflammation occurs, for instance on a finger, the skin and tissue around the infection swell and stretch. However, in a tooth, the pulp is […]
Do you have a tooth that has been bothering you and needs root canal therapy? Are you avoiding the procedure because you’ve heard how painful it can be? Contrary to what many believe, root canals in fact relieve your dental pains. There have been great advances in technologies to enable dentists to provide a virtually […]
Our bodies are designed to respond to pain in order to help alert us of things we may be doing that are harmful. If you were to place a hand on a hot pan, you would instantly pull it away because the resulting burn would cause pain you’d want to avoid. Our teeth also react the […]
Did you know that replacing missing teeth and restoring good oral health could ultimately prevent much more significant health problems from arising? Gum disease is known to be the leading cause of tooth loss. According to a survey done by the American Dental Association and Colgate in 1996, U.S. dentists say gum disease is a […]
An apicoectomy, also more commonly called a Root-End Resection, is a type of micro-surgery that is done after a root canal if an infection develops or continues. Typically a root canal is the only type of surgery needed to save an infected tooth, but occasionally an infection will persist even after a patient receives root […]
