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Your Oral Health

Do you cover your mouth when you smile?

Most of this is straightforward to treat. Some of it is not cosmetic at all: bleeding gums and constant bad breath are early gum disease.

A stereo microscope over the bench in the practice's in-house laboratory — Seen, not guessed

A clinician showing a patient a dental model during a consultation — Free second opinion

A tooth model used to explain treatment — Explained on the model

Dr. Nahlah with a patient at the practice — Time with the specialist

Conditions

Ten things people come in with.

Open the one that sounds like yours.

Loose dentures

Jawbone recession lets a denture come loose, and a loose denture rubs. The fix is anchorage: implant-supported dentures or full-arch implants, fixed into the jaw and strong enough to eat normally with. Fixed vs. removable

Bad breath

Occasional is normal. Constant bad breath, alongside gums that bleed and teeth that loosen, is gum disease, and untreated it aggravates diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Treated with customized gum disease therapy.

Bleeding gums

The earliest sign of gum disease. Tartar releases bacteria, the gums redden, swell and recede, and advanced gum disease eventually stops being curable. Surgical and non-surgical treatments both exist; an evaluation settles which.

Cracked teeth

Once a tooth is broken open, bacteria get inside and the infection can end in root canal therapy. Treated with a filling, bonding, an inlay, an onlay or a crown, depending on how much tooth is left. Crowns & bridges

Crooked teeth

Not only cosmetic. Misaligned teeth hold plaque where a brush cannot reach, and they skew the bite, which shows up as jaw discomfort rather than as an aesthetic complaint.

Gum disease

Red, receding or tender gums, and pockets forming between gum and tooth. Untreated it leads to tooth loss and jawbone recession, and is linked to respiratory disease, diabetes, pregnancy complications, heart disease, stroke and cancer.

A gummy smile

Gums frame the teeth, and the proportion between the two is most of what makes a smile look right. Precise recontouring rebalances the gumline, usually in a single visit.

Missing or failing teeth

Without a root stimulating it, the bone under the empty socket deteriorates, and it spreads, which is how one lost tooth becomes the neighboring ones. Bridges and implants both restore the smile; only implants protect the jaw. Dental implants

Toothache

The tooth is X-rayed, so what is happening inside the enamel is visible rather than guessed at, and the aim is always to keep the natural tooth. Wisdom teeth aside, an extracted tooth should be replaced. If it is urgent

Yellow or discolored teeth

A full set of healthy teeth can still be a smile someone hides. Professional whitening handles it, and the shade is chosen with you rather than set once. Teeth whitening

A patient reviewing her CBCT scan and an implant model with a clinician

Bring it in

It is very often smaller than you have been assuming.

Yolanda holding a framed photograph of her smile before treatment

Why It Matters Here

Several of these are the same problem.

Bad breath, bleeding gums and gum disease are one condition at three stages. Missing teeth, loose dentures and most of the toothache list are one consequence of another.

A prosthodontist is trained to see the whole mouth as one system, so the useful question is not what do I do about this tooth but what is actually going on here. Second opinions are free.

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