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Take Early Warning Signs Of Poor Dental Health Seriously

If there are any early suggestions of poor oral health that start to affect you, know that you can create more problems in the long run by ignoring them. While the appropriate care will help you avoid problems with your oral health, issues with tooth decay and gum disease can grow worse as time passes […]

Questions You Might Have About Restoring A Chipped Tooth

The location of a chipped tooth, and the size of the chip itself, can affect how a person might feel about their need for treatment. If you have some concerns about chipping, but feel that your tooth is “probably” okay, you should know that ignoring trauma can have consequences that affect you over time. The […]

How Can I Be Sure My Dental Bridge Will Stay In Place?

When you lose a tooth, you can suffer from more than just a loss of confidence in your smile. A single missing tooth is enough to compromise your bite function and make it difficult for you to enjoy foods. In time, the strain of changing your bite can actually tax your jaw enough to create […]

Dental Implants Can Restore Your Bite Function

The change in your quality of life after tooth loss can be drastic, and it can certainly be frustrating as well. Your immediate concerns can be cosmetic, as a visible gap left by losing a tooth can be embarrassing. In time, you can find that your incomplete smile makes once-simple tasks like biting and chewing […]

Conservative Dental Work Can Have Exciting Benefits

Are you afraid that the work required to restore your smile is going to be long or difficult? In many cases, problems with the condition of teeth can be addressed with relatively conservative dental treatments. Sometimes, problems with damage or natural flaws can be addressed through cosmetic dentistry. If a tooth needs more than just […]

Scheduling Treatment After Hurting Your Tooth

While it can be tough to think of any “pleasant” injuries, a tooth injury can be particularly upsetting? As strong as they are, teeth are limited in how much they can heal after trauma. This means that a chip or crack can be permanent, and it can leave the tooth vulnerable to further trouble in […]

What To Do If Teeth Grinding Leads To Dental Damage

If you let a teeth grinding problem go on for too long, issues with dental damage can become difficult to overlook. In addition to wearing down teeth, this habit can lead to problems with chipping and cracking that hurt your oral health. At our Ankeny, IA dentist’s office, patients who show signs of this problem, […]

The Right Crown Will Provide Sustained Bite Support

While the right dental restoration is able to preserve the quality of your smile, a dental filling or crown should also provide functional protection. With a custom dental crown, our Ankeny, IA dentist’s office can supply you with protection that lets you bite and chew using your dental crown without issue. To ensure that your […]

Oral Health Problems Can Affect You In Worrying Ways

How serious can a dental problem really become? When oral health issues are promptly identified at routine dental exams and addressed, you can avoid painful symptoms or worrying complications. However, people who go without routine checkups can allow a problem to worsen, unknowingly putting themselves at risk for complications that impact their smile as well […]

Choosing The Right Dental Filling For Your Cavity Treatment

A dental filling is the most conservative dental restoration that can be used to care for a tooth in poor condition. The filling is carefully placed to occupy the space where a cavity formed so that the tooth has functional support, and so that it can be kept safe against potential infections or bacteria accumulation. […]

Category: Restorative Dentistry