Keeping up with good dental and periodontal health is a reward unto itself, but a beautiful smile isn’t the only benefit. Oral-systemic health describes the relationship between oral health conditions, like periodontal disease, and chronic systemic issues, like heart disease. For instance, in the case of severe periodontal disease, the unchecked inflammation that damages your gum tissues can increase your risk of inflammation elsewhere, elevating your risks of inflammatory conditions. Though it isn’t guaranteed that poor oral health will lead to poor physical health, the prevalence of oral-systemic health means taking care of your smile can help lower your risks in the future. (more…)
How to Prevent the Most Common Causes of Tooth Loss
Ideally, your adult teeth should remain strong and healthy for life. When you lose one or more of them, it’s for a reason, and aside from accidental trauma, such reasons can often be successfully prevented. The most common causes of adult tooth loss consist of dental health issues that destroy your teeth’s supportive structures – namely, periodontal disease. By understanding these causes and how they develop, you will have a better chance of preventing them from becoming severe and costing you one or more of your permanent teeth. (more…)
Questions About Life After Tooth Loss
Tooth loss isn’t typically a casual, everyday topic of conversation. In fact, you might not speak about it at all, except to your dentist or those you know who have recently lost one or more teeth. Still, tooth loss is a real threat to your dental health, even if it seems as though all of your teeth are still healthy and secure. Fortunately, in most cases, tooth loss can be preventable. However, when it does occur, Dr. Kania can make life after tooth loss more pleasant and comfortable by replacing your lost teeth with an appropriate number of dental implants. (more…)
Non-Surgical Treatments to Prevent Periodontal Disease
Threats to your oral health come in many forms, but periodontal disease (aka gum disease) is one of the most common, and one of the most destructive. Left untreated, the disease will erode the soft periodontal tissues and ligaments that support your teeth, and can gradually infect the jawbone underneath your gums, possibly leading to tooth loss. Fortunately, preventing periodontal disease is not particularly difficult. Even if you have already begun to exhibit symptoms of gingivitis (early gum disease), Dr. Kania can help prevent periodontal disease from accelerating with the right non-surgical preventive treatment. (more…)
The Advantages of Pinhole Gum Surgery
The periodontal tissues that surround and protect the bottoms of your teeth are important for a number of reasons. Your gums help support your teeth by clinging tightly to them, as well as protect your teeth’s roots from bacterial infection and irritation. When gum recession or the development of gum disease cause these tissues to lose their grip, a gum graft may be necessary to restore their health. With the advanced Pinhole® Surgical Technique (PST), Dr. Kania can perform most kinds of gum surgeries with minimal discomfort and quicker recovery times. (more…)
Dental Implants: Amazing Advantages
Patients suffering from tooth loss quickly discover that the side effects of an open space in one’s smile presents significant challenges. Furthermore, patients dealing with the loss of multiple teeth will find that those challenges seem to become exponentially more difficult. Fortunately, we offer dental implants. An implant will replace your entire tooth – roots included – so you can regain your complete, functional smile that looks beautiful and natural. Wondering what makes implants so exceptional? Learn more about their advantages, so you may more easily determine whether this tooth replacement option is suited to your needs.
24/7 Dental Hygiene
For patients suffering from periodontal disease, the goal of maintaining a plaque-free smile is likely ever-present in your mind. While brushing and flossing on a daily basis are things that you can easily accomplish at home, you may find yourself wondering how you can practice dental hygiene when you’re away from your arsenal of plaque-fighting instruments and products. Fortunately, keeping your teeth and gums healthy is something you can achieve 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A few helpful suggestions will help you keep up your hygiene even when you’re out and about.
Tobacco Products And Oral Health: A Quiz
Patients who smoke or use other smokeless forms of tobacco may feel conflicted when it comes to quitting. While you may recognize that smoking cessation offers many benefits to your life and those around you, it certainly does not mean you have all the motivation you need to make that change (or all of the information or help). For instance, do you know whether tobacco affects your oral health? Do you know who you can turn to if you need some assistance with quitting? We encourage you to test your knowledge as an excellent starting point.
Prevent Periodontal Disease: Better Brushing
Protecting your smile from the development of periodontal disease and its negative effects is often as simple as practicing excellent preventive care. As you know, one of the key components of effective daily hygiene is brushing your teeth. True, this practice that you have been performing since you were a young child offers exceptional protection against the inflammation and subsequent complications that may arise from gum disease. Not sure if you’re brushing your best? Consider some significant factors in ensuring your brushing is effective.
Important Questions About Wisdom Teeth
Where your dental health is concerned, wisdom teeth (the informal name for your third set of permanent molars) are a bit of an anomaly. Unlike your other teeth, wisdom teeth are frequently removed for the benefit of the rest of your oral health. Also unlike other teeth, they typically don’t need to be replaced after extraction, since their removal helps restore your bite’s harmony rather than detracting from it. To help you better understand your wisdom teeth and the possible need to extract them, we answer a few important questions about your third molars and their role in your long-term dental health. (more…)