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…)
Raise Your Confidence With A Teeth Whitening Treatment
A bright, white smile can have more effect on your overall confidence than you realize, at least until your teeth start to appear dull. As discoloration concerns grow, you can become uncomfortable with your appearance in pictures, and you can be reluctant to let people see your teeth when you speak or smile. Fortunately, this is something that you can address with your dentist’s help. Teeth whitening treatment has given many patients an exciting confidence boost by dealing with the stubborn stains that can dull someone’s enamel. Sunny Smiles is ready to provide this service to patients, and we can also discuss the benefits of other cosmetic dental procedures for those who hope to positively change the way that they look. (more…)
Are You Trying To Ignore A Problem With A Toothache?
Have you been telling yourself that an aching tooth, or one that has become more sensitive, is not serious enough to require a dental visit? Are you hoping that the problem will simply go away on its own and stop bothering you? People who choose not to act when they have signs of poor oral health can do more than just prolong their discomfort. If you are experiencing discomfort because your tooth is infected, the problem will grow worse over time and raise your risk for losing your tooth! Bring up your troubles with tooth pain or sensitivity so that you can be properly evaluated. If trouble like advanced tooth decay or physical damage are identified, we can put a stop to your troubles by performing root canal therapy. (more…)