Archive for October, 2009

Dental Implants

Those with missing teeth today may be candidates for dental implants, which are superior to simple bridges or partials.
Bridges may still be effective, but you must have existing teeth on each side of the gap. These teeth act as anchor, or abutments, for the bridge. A pontic, or prosthetic tooth, is placed to fill the [...]

Sedation Dentistry vs. Sleep Dentistry

For those with dental phobia, seeing the dentist can be an all-encompassing experience in which sleep is lost and troubled scenarios of dental chair disasters take over. Some who have dental phobias like this may have heard of sedation dentistry, while others may hope for sleep dentistry. Then there are those who consider the two [...]