If you have experienced pain and sensitivity, but your pain relief medication didn’t work, or if you noticed a pocket of pus growing around your painful tooth, you should seek treatment immediately, as you might be one of 200,000 Americans who suffer from tooth...
Dental cleanings are essential to maintaining adequate oral health, but sometimes you have to take it one step further, especially if you’re wearing braces. The maintenance of orthodontic appliances and teeth is difficult for patients who wear braces. Despite...
Tooth cavities are a never-ending concern for us in our quest for good oral hygiene. American children aged 6 to 8 experience cavities before they begin to develop adult teeth, and more than half of our teenagers experience cavities in their permanent teeth, according...
Whether they’re called “small teeth,” “pointy teeth,” “microdontia,” or even “Dracula teeth,” peg teeth refer to a dental condition in which one or more teeth are abnormally small compared to their normal size. Peg...
Mouth guards are crucial equipment for safeguarding your teeth and mouth when playing contact sports. Athletes often wear a sports mouth guard to protect their teeth, mouth, and jaw from injury. But mouth guards, like any other item of safety equipment, have a limited...
You may or may not use it, but you have almost certainly heard about mouthwash. However, do you know how to use this oral cleaning tool properly? Believe it or not, you can actually overuse oral rinse and cause the very oral issues you may be trying to improve! Keep...
