3 Suggestions To Help With Cavity Prevention

Whether you have recently undergone restorative dental work, or just want to make sure you keep your smile cavity-free, taking time to think about your current oral hygiene routine can be beneficial. Because oral care is such a familiar routine, people sometimes overlook small changes in their habits that may have made them more susceptible to decay. Those slips can mean enjoying less protection for your smile, and a greater chance of having problems identified at a future routine dental exam. Taking time to recognize those shortcomings, and making adjustments to improve your routine, can help you continue to show off a healthy, lovely smile! (more…)

TMJ Therapy Can Resolve Problems That Cause Chronic Pain

If you are no longer able to do something as simple as move your jaw to speak or eat without pain, it can be a sign that you are struggling with TMJ disorder. This problem can develop if your bite does not align properly, as an awkward or uneven movement can cause pressure on your joints to mount. Issues with TMJ-related aches and pains can also be linked to a physical injury, to trouble with teeth grinding, or to a problem with your dental health that forces a change in the way you bite and chew. Through TMJ therapy, our practice can ease your discomfort. This therapy often involves the use of an oral appliance that gently corrects your jaw’s position. (more…)

Finding The Right Dentist To Care For Your Kids’ Smiles

Having access to quality dental care can help you remain confident in your smile, and it can prevent potentially serious oral health issues from affecting you. While adults should see regular dental exams as important, these appointments are also valuable for younger patients. Pediatric dental care calls for more than just the same approach to preventive dental care that adults receive. At first, the priority can be to simply make sure your kids are comfortable in the new surroundings of a dentist’s office. From there, they can benefit from traditional preventive care as well as encouragement and instruction regarding good oral hygiene habits. You can bring your children in for dependable care at Sunny Smiles, just as you can rely on our practices to support your dental health! (more…)

How Root Canals Restore Teeth In Poor Health

In some situations, the treatment of a cavity will require more than just the placement of a dental filling. Over time, a cavity will cause increasing harm to your enamel. When the damage is severe enough, it will leave you vulnerable to the formation of an infection that causes discomfort while putting you at risk for tooth loss! To address a tooth in this condition, root canal therapy will have to take place. The root canal procedure is capable of saving a tooth that is in a vulnerable state. In addition to being performed as a means of restoring a tooth affected by decay, it can be necessary after physical trauma leads to internal harm to a tooth. (more…)

How Dental Bridges Close Smile Gaps Left By Missing Teeth

You may have a hard time smiling with any confidence if you are worried people will see the gap in your smile left by a missing tooth. Tooth loss can take a significant toll on your confidence, but it also creates issues for your oral health. More losses can occur after an initial loss, and it can be difficult to bite and chew when you have to work around a gap, a problem that can lead to TMJ disorder. Through the placement of a dental bridge, your smile can be completely restored. The bridge is a permanent appliance, which means it will stay in place even as you rely on it to bite and chew food. When you have one in position, you can smile with renewed confidence, and you can enjoy a healthier dental function that allows you to enjoy foods that may have proven difficult to eat.  (more…)

Relying On Teeth Whitening Treatment To Fight Enamel Stains

How should you approach problems with dental discoloration? If you have been frustrated by the way stains have made your enamel look dull, you may have already tried whitening toothpastes, or even attempted to brighten your smile with a store bought teeth whitening kit. While these efforts can help you deal with superficial stains, it may be difficult for you to see the results that you really wanted to show off. A professional whitening procedure provided by your dentist can deal with stains that have proven difficult to remove. Sunny Smiles has helped many people take on issues with discoloration. In addition to helping remove stains that already affect you, we can offer guidance on good habits that make problems with discoloration easier to avoid in the future! (more…)

How Does A Tooth Extraction Help Restore Your Oral Health?

The goal of restorative dental work is to fully resolve a problem with your oral health with the most conservative treatment possible. What this means is that your dentist will work to preserve as much of your tooth structure as possible when taking care of a cavity or physical injury. Unfortunately, sometimes the only way to properly deal with a problem is to extract a tooth. How does this approach to treatment help you? When a badly infected tooth is removed, it ensures that bacteria will not spread and cause more harm to your smile. In addition to carefully extracting a problem tooth for you, our practice can give you back your complete smile by offering prosthetic dental work. (more…)

3 Things To Consider When You Have Tooth Pain

How concerned should you be if you start to experience tooth pain? If the discomfort is persistent, or if the pain is difficult to ignore, it could be a sign that you have an infected tooth, a problem that you should not ignore. To restore an infected tooth’s health, a root canal procedure will be needed. Putting off treatment will allow an infection to worsen, and that increases your risk for losing the tooth! Sunny Smiles is prepared to help if tooth pain starts to bother you. If necessary, we can schedule an emergency dental procedure and address severe tooth pain that is affecting your quality of life. (more…)

What Problems Can You Face When You Skip Dental Checkups?

It is important that you stick with an effective oral hygiene routine. In a short time, the plaque deposits that build up on your teeth can harden to tartar, leaving you with accumulations of harmful agents that put you at risk for dental decay or gum disease. Keeping your smile completely free of tartar buildup can be difficult. Fortunately, deposits are removed every time you undergo a professional teeth cleaning. This service is provided at every routine dental exam, and it can help you remain safe against problems that require restorative dental work. Sunny Smiles is able to provide you with consistent preventive dental care to help you avoid problems with your smile and oral health. If an issue does develop, it can be identified and addressed so that there are no further troubles for your dental well-being. (more…)

3 Benefits You Gain From Replacing A Missing Tooth

How concerned should you be if you have a single missing tooth? Even one absent tooth can create problems for your appearance, as well as for your oral health. If you have an incomplete smile, you can have a difficult time biting and chewing, which can turn into a problem with TMJ disorder. You can also wear down remaining teeth, or even lose more of them in time. Fortunately, the right prosthetic dental treatment will be able to restore the way you look while also offering functional benefits. With a fixed dental bridge or dental implant-held prosthetic tooth, you can bite, chew, speak, and smile with renewed confidence! (more…)