How to Restore Your Smile After Losing a Tooth

The good news about modern dental treatment is that many of the common problems that used to devastate people’s smiles can now be effectively treated and managed with optimal results. This includes the loss of one or more teeth, which can potentially have several diminishing impacts on the overall state of your oral health. Today, people who experience tooth loss can successfully restore their smiles by precisely addressing the cause of their tooth loss and replacing the lost tooth with a highly lifelike dental prosthesis. (more…)

What You Might Not Be Aware Of About Tooth Loss

Though many people believe it’s inevitable, the truth is that tooth loss is largely preventable. There are many different potential causes behind it, and the majority of these causes can be prevented or treated early, before you end up losing one or more teeth because of it. If you do experience tooth loss, then there are also things you need to know about its potential impact on the rest of your oral health, and how best to restore your smile afterward. (more…)

Can You Lower Your Risks of Tooth Loss?

Sticking to a good dental hygiene routine every day and visiting your dentist routinely for checkups and cleanings are good ways to lower your risks of experiencing most dental health concerns. That’s because the most common concerns, like tooth decay and gum disease, are the products of certain types of oral bacteria being allowed to accumulate out of control. When it comes to lower your risks of experiencing tooth loss, the same principles apply – it’s important to prevent the many different factors that could potentially lead to tooth loss. (more…)

Successfully Restoring Your Smile After Tooth Loss

Dealing with tooth loss isn’t like dealing with other concerns with your tooth structure. If a tooth is damaged or develops a cavity, then the goal of treating it is to restore the tooth’s strength and integrity so that you can protect and preserve it better. However, if the tooth is lost or extracted, the goal of your treatment is to preserve the rest of your health and bite function by replacing tooth and it’s many vital functions. Today, we examine why tooth loss could mean more than you realize, and why successfully restoring your smile requires the right custom dental prosthesis. (more…)

What Replacing a Lost Tooth Does for Your Smile

On the surface, the advantage to your smile that comes with replacing a lost tooth might seem obvious. That’s especially true if your biggest concern is how your smile looks without one or more natural teeth where they should be. However, there are many more consequences to losing a tooth than you might realize at first, and there’s much more importance in replacing it than you might expect. (more…)

Tooth Loss: Treat It To Avoid More Tooth Loss!

You have already gone through the not-so-lovely experience that we refer to as tooth loss. Of course, the very last thing you might be thinking is that you’d better do something about those missing teeth or else … it could cause tooth loss! How might lost teeth possibly beget more missing teeth, you wonder? Well, while it may sound strange to you, our Cleveland, TX team is here to explain the details (of course, as we promote the exceptionally wise and protective decision to avoid further problems by replacing your missing teeth).

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Holiday Suggestions For Denture Wearers!

Are you a patient of ours who wears a full or partial denture? If so, then we know you are serious about your smile and you have already taken the steps required to enjoy a complete smile. However, we also know that even if you have been wearing dentures for many years and are quite well educated about them, you may still find that the holidays can cause some serious challenges. To make sure you continue enjoying a complete, beautiful, functional smile over the winter holiday season, our Cleveland, TX team would love to share some very important suggestions you can use for years to come!

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Bridges: The Questions You Haven’t Asked (But Should)

It’s one thing, of course, to realize that a dental bridge is probably a more than suitable selection for you once you’ve experienced tooth loss. However, when you have questions that hang about and that remain unanswered, you can often find yourself in a bit of a pickle: You think that a bridge will solve your problem but the information you’re still curious about is preventing you from pursuing your teeth replacement any further. This is no good! Remember that if you have questions for our Cleveland, TX team, you should always ask them. Let us help you get started, so you’re that much closer to a complete grin.

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3 Reasons People Need Prosthetic Dental Care

You might have some ideas about prosthetic dentistry. You might think it’s something that you might only need once you’re much older. However, age has nothing to do with tooth loss! Remember, when you care for your teeth, you can keep them forever and ever! You may even think that replacing missing teeth is only something that might occur if you just don’t brush for a long time. Let’s help set the record straight regarding the fact that there are reasons just about anyone might need to replace one or more teeth. So, should you find yourself visiting our Cleveland, TX practice to address a space in your smile, you’ll recognize that you’re in very good company.

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Facts About Tooth Loss that You Should Know

If you’ve already lost one or more teeth, then you’re already familiar with some of the more obvious consequences of tooth loss. For instance, the gap (or gaps) in your smile can have a significant impact on its appearance, and the more teeth you’ve lost, the more difficult it may be to bite, chew, and speak properly. Yet, there are even more facts about tooth loss that you may not realize, even though their impacts can be far more severe than just your appearance. (more…)