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Smoking and Dental Health Everyone knows smoking is bad for our health and can have a great number of adverse effects on the health of the smoker. It causes chronic lung problems such as lung cancer and can cause coughing fits and may also worsen asthma symptoms. There’s another side effect of smoking that doesn’t get as much attention due ...

Dental night-guards are one of the several treatment methods to address various types of dental disorders. A night-guard is a protective mouthpiece custom fitted to your mouth that covers the teeth and gums to help deal with grinding or clenching. It acts as a tough protective barrier between the upper and lower teeth during sleep to immediately prevent contact and reduce further ...

What is a Dental Emergency? Basically, any dental problem requires immediate treatment in order to save a tooth, like an injury to the teeth or gums can be potentially serious.  To stop ongoing tissue bleeding or alleviate severe pain is considered a dental emergency and should not be ignored. Even if you have good oral health habits, dental accidents can ...

Tooth decay is a common disorder, second only to the common cold . Tooth decay is the damage that occurs as a result of an infection with certain types of bacteria that use sugars or starch(such as milk, bread, cookies, candy, soda, juice, and many others ) in food or drink to produce acids in your mouth that eat away at ...

Tooth wear is the irreversible loss of tooth surface. The term used to describe the progressive loss of a tooth’s surface due to means other than those which cause tooth decay or dental trauma. As people age there is a certain amount of wear and tear that occurs and is considered normal but pathologic tooth wear is wear that occurs ...

Researchers have observed that people with gum disease (when compared to people without gum disease) is associated with several other diseases. They were more likely to develop heart disease, stroke or have difficulty controlling blood sugar. Other studies showed that women with gum disease were more likely than those with healthy gums to deliver preterm, low birth weight babies. There ...

The goals of gum disease treatment are to identify and eliminate the factors that are making the person more susceptible to gum disease. Also to control the risk of infection, promote reattachment of healthy gums to teeth, reduce swelling and the depth of pockets and to stop disease progression. There are a variety of treatments for gum disease depending on the stage ...

Gum disease is a very common condition and varies widely in severity where the gums around the teeth become swollen, sore or infected. It is an infection of the tissues that surround and support your teeth and is most commonly a result of poor oral hygiene. It is a major cause of tooth loss in adults. Because gum disease is usually painless, you may ...

Fluoride is a mineral widely distributed in nature throughout the world. Fluoride occurs naturally in many foods and water so that all humans ingest some fluoride on a daily basis. The amount of fluoride in water varies from area to area. Fluoride helps prevent tooth decay by making the tooth more resistant to acid attacks from plaque bacteria and sugars in the ...

This is also called, the split tooth syndrome, incomplete fracture of the tooth, greenstick fracture. In this condition, the tooth is cracked or fractured but no part of the tooth is broken off. The fractures in cracked tooth syndrome is too small to be seen on an xray. When the fracture is below the gum line, it becomes even more ...