Category: Restorative Dentistry

Schedule A Root Canal To Save Your Tooth From Advanced Decay

Leaving a cavity untreated can lead to a problem that affects more than just your tooth. As decay worsens, your pulp – the inner chamber of your tooth – can be exposed to bacteria. When this occurs, you can suffer from dental sensitivity and tooth pain. If the problem is not addressed at this stage,… Read more »

Use A Modern Prosthetic To Replace Your Missing Tooth

Few oral health problems are as difficult to work around, or ignore, as tooth loss. If your smile is not complete, it can be a big problem for your appearance, and it can make actions like biting, chewing, and speaking harder for you. You should know that you have access to quality prosthetic dental care… Read more »

Has Your Teeth Grinding Habit Led To A Chipped Tooth?

When you first start to grind your teeth at night, you can wake up with unpleasant pain in your face, jaw, and teeth. The problem, known as bruxism, can be concerning right away, but it can actually worsen over time. If you let the problem go untreated, you could wind up doing real damage to… Read more »

3 Dental Problems That Should Not Be Ignored

If you want to maintain good oral health, and preserve the look of your smile, you should take any symptoms of dental troubles seriously. Your El Paso, TX dentist’s office is prepared to offer restorative dental treatment to individuals who show signs of troubles with tooth decay, or other issues that can impact your well-being…. Read more »

What Should You Expect Your Filling To Do For Your Tooth?

It can be scary to realize just how harmful a cavity can be to a tooth. Even when they are caught in their early stages, cavities cause permanent damage to your enamel. In other words, the spread of decay leads to an irreplaceable loss of dental material. This is an understandably serious issue. Fortunately, restorations… Read more »

Arranging Your Smile Recovery With All-On-4 Implants

When you think about how much trouble one missing tooth can cause an individual to experience, it should be easy to see just how serious it can be for someone to lose all of their upper or lower teeth. If this is already a problem affecting you, then imagining is no longer necessary. You can… Read more »

Scheduling Dental Work After A Routine Oral Health Exam

A typical preventive dental health care regimen would see you visiting your El Paso, TX dentist for semiannual dental appointments. When you do a good job protecting your smile, these visits can be the only trips you make to the dentist’s office. Unfortunately, patients sometimes receive bad news about the state of their smile, and… Read more »

Bringing Your Tooth Pain To Your Dentist’s Attention

Trying to simply “tough out” tooth pain can be a bad idea for several reasons. One big concern is that by ignoring pain, you could also ignore a potentially serious oral health issue that demands restorative dental work. Another concern is that you may be changing your dental function to work around discomfort, which can… Read more »

Restoring Teeth That Are Chipped Or Cracked Due To Bruxism

Every time you bite into something, you put demands on your teeth. The friction that occurs during biting and chewing is inevitable, and because of this, you can expect to see some wear and tear on your smile over time. However, a person who is dealing with bruxism can see degrees of wear and tear… Read more »

Are You Engaging In Behaviors That Could Damage Your Smile?

Hopefully, you make a point to stay consistent with smile-friendly practices like brushing and flossing, as well as monitoring your sugar intake. People who keep up good preventive dental habits can feel that their teeth are safe, while not realizing that they engage in other behaviors that are putting them at risk for dental damage…. Read more »