Oral Piercings: What To Consider

When you’re tossing around the idea of receiving an oral piercing, it’s important to consider the pros and cons. As far as we are concerned, the cons stack up quite considerably as a piercing applies to your oral health. While we will certainly be happy to help you care for your smile whether you go through with the piercing or not, we encourage you to take a long, hard glance as the possible complications.

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4 Ways To Prepare For Care

When are we seeing your lovely smiling face next? Are you coming in for a dental checkup and cleaning? Do you need to come in for a dental filling? Are you ready to talk with us about cosmetic care? Regardless of the particular reason for your dental visit, you might wonder if there’s anything you can do to make it as streamlined as possible. While we love spending time with you, we agree: It’s always much nicer when you know how to make the most of your appointments! Consider our suggestions before we see you next.

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Time To Recognize Oral Cancer

Instead of shying away from it, why not take the chance to recognize that this is Oral Cancer Awareness month and get a bit more proactive regarding your oral health? In all hopes, this is something that will never touch your life. However, as it is much more common than most patients realize, we encourage you to become familiar with how to prevent it. You’ll be pleased to learn that with a solid education, you’ll feel much more at ease about how to keep your smile healthy.

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3 Things Extractions Eliminate

You know that you need a dental extraction to make your oral health all better. However, do you really know much about the specifics? Are you certain about what types of problems your tooth removal is going to eliminate? If not, realizing the ways removing a problematic tooth will make your life easier can make scheduling and coming in for your treatment much more attractive.

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Dental Implants: Simple, Common Questions

Your introduction to dental implants may be quite surprising, particularly if you had no idea you could replace not only the visible part of your missing tooth but the entire thing. While the initial information about the basics and the benefits are all well and good, you may notice that you have some simple questions you feel you really need answered before you can actually become excited about implants as an option. Don’t worry. We’ve got you covered!

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Your Smile: All Things Spring

Spring is here! Where we come from (the land of dental care, of course) this means a whole lot of things that apply to your smile, which you may not have considered yet. It means that it’s a good time to get your smile into excellent condition in preparation for this very social season, that it might be a good time to remind yourself about prevention, and more! Take a few fun and helpful hints to heart, so you can keep your oral health and smile beauty in tip-top shape.

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