While you are waiting for your permanent bridge to be installed your dentist will give you a temporary bridge. This bridge is designed to cover any missing teeth and make your smile appear uniform. The temporary bridge is applied using a soft paste that makes the bridge easy to remove and reapply. While the bridge is only temporary, it can become damaged or cracked if it is mistreated. The bridge is constructed out of plastic, therefore, it is more susceptible to damage.
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Dental implants have been very successful at replacing missing teeth since the 1970s, with a 98% success rate to prove it. Successful surgeries result in an implant that is a permanent fixture of the mouth due to the titanium that forms a bond with the jawbone. While it is rare, complications can happen that involve the implant breaking and needing to be removed. Here are 3 reasons these complications can happen.
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If you have an area on the biting surface of one of your teeth where decay was present, and it is currently covered with a filling that needs to be removed due to aging, your dentist may recommend having a crown placed over the area. Some dentists use the process of placing an inlay or onlay over the area instead. It is risky to place another filling over an area on a tooth with substantial decay, as the removal of the old filling often takes additional portions of the original tooth with it.
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If you are the parent of a child who feels nervous or anxious about receiving dental services for the first time, you may not know how to make your child feel at ease. Children often see dental visits depicted as painful events on cartoons. In addition, if your little one has not visited a dentist before, he or she may simply be afraid of the unknown. Here are a few ways to help your child feel comfortable with visiting a dentist for the first time:
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If you needed braces as a teenager, but you were never able to get it, it is not too late to benefit from braces now. In addition, you may have developed the need for braces as the health of your teeth or your jaw strength changed. Fortunately, the stigma about adults in braces seems to have diminished or disappeared entirely in recent years, possibly due to the advances in orthodontia that are now available.
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