When you have a damaged tooth or one that is severely decayed, the we may help with a dental crown. Each one is custom-made for your smile and can help prevent major complications. In today’s blog, your Austin, MN, dentists talk about repairing teeth with a dental crown.
Treating Your Cavity With A Lifelike Filling
When you have a cavity, your tooth can ache and over time, even become infected or lost. To help treat the tooth and preserve your smile, our team can offer a lifelike solution. In today’s blog, your Austin, MN, dentists talk about treating a dental cavity with a composite resin dental filling, and how to avoid the onset of tooth decay.
Making Little Smiles Ready For Back-To-School
Before you know it, your kids will be going back to school! Which means they will need to get ready. Along with shopping for school supplies, you should also consider their oral health too. In today’s blog, your Austin, MN, dentists talk about helping kids get ready to go back-to-school!
Why You Should Consider Veneers
When you have several issues with the appearance of your smile, you may assume correction could require several treatments and appointments. But with porcelain veneers, our team can transform your smile with one procedure in just two visits! In today’s blog, your Austin, MN, dentists talk about porcelain veneers.
Care For Your Child’s Teeth Over The Summer
For kids, summer is a time when schedules change and their waking hours shift. No longer must they wake up early for school and labor through homework every evening. Now they are free to do what they want — within reason of course. As adults, our lives don’t change too much (unfortunately) outside of taking our children where they need to go at the correct time. During these hot months, it’s easy to let normal routines slide. However, when it comes to their oral health, it is essential that you take steps to ensure that their teeth stay healthy. In today’s blog, your Austin, MN, dentists discuss ways that you can help them maintain healthy, radiant smiles all summer long. (more…)
Cosmetic Restoration In One Visit
If you have stained teeth, we can often help with professional teeth whitening. But what if you have misshapen or damaged teeth? For a bright and attractive smile, your Austin, MN, dentists can help with dental bonding and contouring, two cosmetic procedures that can be completed in only one visit!
Aging Bones Also Mean Aging Teeth
Like it or not, we are all getting older as we speak. And with that, unfortunately, there are biological consequences to that. Not on do you lost density in your bones, it can also have a damaging impact on your oral health, as well.
Today, your Austin, MN dentist talks to you about how as we age, we need to take particular steps in order to best maintain our smile!
Protect Your Smile From Stains!
Over the years, your teeth take a lot of damage. The foods we eat can stain them, and we are constantly exposing them to various materials that can cause damage to your enamel.
Tobacco use is another major cause of tooth discoloration, or drinking coffee or red wine. Or you could be lacking certain vitamins, causing splotches, or places that appear translucent.
Over the course of a lifetime, it can be difficult to maintain a bright, clear smile. Today, your Austin, MN dentist explains some common sources of tooth discoloration and how to best protect your smile, both inside and out!
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Why Do We Still Have Wisdom Teeth?
We only hear about wisdom teeth when there are issues with them. They don’t appear to do too much good even when they are healthy. So why do we have them? If we are evolving, are our mouths as well?
It is easier to recognize if there are issues with your wisdom teeth if you know their history and their biological function. It is important to keep a baseline of your body’s mechanisms, in order to properly identify if it is not working properly.
Today, your Austin, MN dentist touches on the biology behind wisdom teeth so that you can properly monitor yours!
Ignore Flossing At Your Own Risk!
Every time you see an oral health professional, you are surely reminded to keep to a strict oral health regimen. This certainly includes twice-daily brushing and an oral rinse. But also comes the one that patients dread the most: flossing.
Maybe it’s the time, or any pain with flossing gums that have not been cared for, but people seem particularly averse to keeping to a strict flossing regimen. Today, your Austin, MN dentist practically begs you to floss. It can save your teeth, and even stabilize the jawbone!