Ignoring tooth pain can be a mistake for several reasons. One concern is that until treatment occurs, you can have a difficult time going about your typical day while disregarding your discomfort, especially when you eat or speak. Another is that without the appropriate restorative dental work, your tooth’s health will worsen, leading to more serious consequences for your oral health. Sunny Smiles is ready to take care of individuals who start to struggle with tooth pain. In addition to resolving immediate concerns around your discomfort, we can make plans to restore your tooth’s appearance and dental function. When necessary, we can bring patients in for emergency dental treatment. (more…)
3 Smile Improvements Gained With The Placement Of Veneers
Porcelain veneers make changes that can surprise and excite patients. This approach to cosmetic dental work is often taken because it can help with a variety of problems, and because it can take on several problems at one time. With their placement, you can effectively enjoy a smile makeover that boosts your confidence while giving you a more youthful and attractive appearance. Veneers make these improvements with minimal changes to your tooth structure. Once these custom shells are ready, they are bonded to the fronts of teeth. This process requires less work and fewer changes than the placement of dental crowns. The placement of your veneers will still create impressive and long-lasting changes you can feel excited to show off! (more…)
3 Common Questions Concerning Cavity Treatment
A consistent daily oral hygiene routine and regular dental exams can keep you safe from cavity problems. Preventing decay benefits you because you avoid permanent damage to your enamel, damage that can actually lead to complications with your oral health! Unfortunately, even people committed to good oral hygiene habits can experience at least one cavity in their lifetime. Sunny Smiles is prepared to help if you need to address tooth decay. The type of care you receive will depend on the severity of your cavity. For some cavities, dental fillings are effective at protecting your tooth after decayed tissues are removed. However, in other cases root canal therapy and a dental crown may be needed. (more…)
What Your Dentist Knows About An Aching Jaw
Things you know your dentist can help with include performing scheduled checkups and cleanings, and offering suggestions for better brushing. But a trusted dentist can also help you when you are experiencing aches that center in your jaw, and other areas of the head, neck and shoulders. Jaw aches and pain can be a sign of disorders in your temporomandibular joints, and TMJ therapy from a dentist in El Paso, TX, can help you track the source of the pain, and find a solution. (more…)
Cosmetic Dentistry Can Help With More Than You Might Expect
As you learn more about what changes cosmetic dental work can deliver, you can discover that your smile improvements are more easily grasped than you assumed. People who put off asking about cosmetic work because they fear it will be too involved, or that their goals are not reasonable, may fail to realize how much good the right procedure can do for them. Sunny Smiles provides multiple services that change the way patients look. You can discuss a procedure that pinpoints and addresses a specific flaw, or you can make plans to treat several concerns with as little as one procedure! Our practice has experience caring for individuals worried about dental discoloration and damage to their enamel, as well as issues with spacing, bulky or uneven gums, and more! (more…)
When Will You Need Your Wisdom Teeth Removed?
When your wisdom teeth begin to arrive, you can experience pain and sensitivity as they press against neighboring teeth. Our wisdom teeth are the last of our secondary (“adult”) teeth to arrive. When they do show up, they often have trouble fitting in because there is not enough space for them. This crowding can lead to your wisdom teeth pushing against teeth and affecting their alignment, damaging their neighbors, or shifting when they erupt. When that shifting occurs, the tooth becomes impacted, which creates more problems for your dental well-being. Sunny Smiles is prepared to safely extract your wisdom teeth so that these problems are avoided. If your wisdom teeth have yet to erupt, regular dental exams will provide you with an early warning about their movement. Your dentist can remove them before they create problems, minimizing the amount of trouble that their arrival could have created. (more…)
Arranging Care When You Have A Dental Emergency
When you know that you have access to emergency dental work, an injury that affects your oral health can feel less scary. Prompt care is more than just reassuring – when you do not delay treatment, you lower your risk for experiencing complications that have to be addressed! Sunny Smiles wants patients to know that we can bring them in and examine an injured, dislodged, or aching tooth on short notice. Through the appropriate restorative dental work, our practice can preserve your smile, maintain your bite, and resolve problems causing you discomfort! We are even prepared to help you if you lose a tooth.
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Need Support For A Broken Tooth? We Can Place A Dental Crown
If your tooth is broken, you should make its restoration a priority. Until you have this work done, you can struggle with the inability to bite in a way that feels natural, a situation that can lead to issues with TMJ disorder. You also need to worry about the onset of an infection that causes problems with pain and sensitivity. Sunny Smiles is ready to meet with individuals who need to have work done for a broken tooth. Through the placement of a dental crown, we can remove risks for infection or damage, and we can also help you regain confidence in your bite. We can place a dental crown that imitates your healthy tooth structure to preserve your appearance while also taking care of your oral health. For patients who need attention promptly after suffering dental damage, we can provide emergency dental appointments. (more…)
Treating Poor Jaw Alignment Through TMJ Therapy
When your jaw joints are out of alignment, you can experience problems with uneven or difficult bite movement, chronic joint discomfort, and even issues with headaches and other forms of pain. This issue can also affect you by causing problems with bruxism, or chronic teeth grinding, something that can lead to worrying dental damage. Fortunately, patients who exhibit symptoms of TMJ disorder can have treatment arranged to ease tension and correct alignment issues. Sunny Smiles can meet with you to examine your joint issues and pursue TMJ therapy. By correcting your issues, we can ease persistent tension, reduce problems with pain, and correct an awkward or uneven bite. (more…)
How Consistent Dental Cleanings Improve Your Oral Hygiene
If you want to keep your smile in good health, and avoid problems with tooth decay and gum disease, you should have a daily oral hygiene routine that you consistently follow. Being both thorough and consistent with oral care will help you avoid tartar buildup, which will make it easier for you to protect yourself against issues that require restorative dental work. With that said, it is important that you still follow through with regular dental exams and cleanings in order to keep your smile clean! Tartar formation can affect even those people with good habits in place. When you are not having your teeth cleaned at regular checkups, those deposits can continue to expose you to trouble with gingivitis and cavities. (more…)