Bruxism

Evidence increasingly shows that poor oral health is associated with functional disability that can lead to deficits and decline” (Overview of oral health, 2017). According to an article in the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, dental fear can have a significant impact on a person’s awareness of their oral health, as well as one’s pro-active steps towards prevention and treatment. Therefore, it is paramount in helping a patient alleviate their fear by listening to the patient, acknowledging their concerns, and taking things slowly (Yildirim,

Signs: bruising, bite marks, cigarette burns or other marks that cannot be explained where they could come from.

Your dentist will help you design a treatment plan based on the root cause of your teeth grinding problem and that will suit your specific needs and lifestyle. As part of this plan, you may need to wear an occlusal device, also known as a bite guard or bruxism appliance. Occlusal devices will help prevent your teeth from becoming fractured or worn down due to chronic teeth grinding. Your bite guard will be custom made to fit your mouth comfortably, and once you start wearing it, you will notice reduced jaw, tooth, and muscle pain in no time at all. When you want quick relief from teeth grinding discomfort, put your trust in these friendly experts.

You have a distinct underbite or the lower teeth are out further than the top row of teeth.

A bridge is considered radical treatment as adjacent tooth structure must be drastically reduced in this process. The bridge has been regarded as the standard of care for some time in the replacement of single and multiple missing teeth. However, in order to obtain optimal functional and aesthetic results for full-veneer bridges, a significant reduction in the amount of tooth structure is necessary, occasionally predisposing to endodontic, periodontal, and structural complications. The abutment teeth often become carious and thus have an increased rate of those individuals needing a root canal procedure. If one of the abutment teeth are lost a longer span bridge would be required. The implant procedure is more conservative and has a better prognosis. Implants have a high rate of success, do not require procedures on adjacent teeth and are not susceptible to caries.

An abnormal bite: Malocclusion, which is a misalignment, can cause under- and over-biting, among other conditions. Due to the poor alignment, you might find that teeth have diffferent wear patterns that can cause an alteration in the facial appearance, pain when chewing or biting, and biting the inside of the mouth more often. There are several different treatment options that are decided upon following an

If you have never spent a night awake or know someone who did, holding your jaw, hating every one and anyone around you, using ice packs to numb pain, wished the night would end so you can rush to the dentist or at least buy the strongest pain killer, felt pain that you never thought existed.........this is not your information. BUT if you have your solution is at hand.

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Before I started going to Dr. Harrington, I was extremely self conscious about my overbite and my buck teeth. I always noticed how people on TV had straight teeth, and I wanted mine to be similar to theirs. Growing up, my parents stressed that first impressions are very important. Keeping that in mind, my parents said that your smile is one of the first qualities that people notice. Therefore, when they first took me to Dr. Harrington's office, I was excited to start my journey to get my perfect smile. The first step

As an undergraduate student, I did not want to lose the training I had gained from my first dentist I shadowed. Thus, I volunteered to work as a student dental assistant and observed various dental procedures. The more time I spent shadowing Dr. Chun, the more my fondness for dentistry grew because I loved watching procedures such as a tooth restoration and tooth extraction. I loved being in the office and witnessing Dr. Chun alleviated the pain of her patients. Her desire went beyond fixing the oral problem but also she educated her patients on preventative measure. Dr. Chun taught me the importance of oral health, and how important it was to educate others on preventative measures. In the

“I saw the treatment as an investment. Compared with the cost of several outfits, it’s not that expensive and it lasts much longer”. Smith purchased her cosmetic dentistry from Dentics on NYC Kings Road. Dentics opened its first “tooth boutique” four years ago and now has three NYC branches. Customers can walk into the shop-fronted surgeries without an appointment and browse through albums of photos showing wayward canines tamed into piano keyboards by bleaching, filing down, building with resins or covering with porcelain veneers. Each treatment costs around $1,200. High school teacher Elizabeth Eccose-Westley regarded the treatment as an affordable luxury. “I’m not rich and I’m not vain, but at 42 I started to feel I was getting long in the tooth. I spent $4,000 on porcelain veneers, instead of a summer holiday, and it’s really boosted my confidence. Give it another couple of years and people won’t think twice about it. Everybody will be having it

-The bristle tip should have a 45° angle from the gingival sulcus to the long axis of the tooth

But sometimes the damage is more subtle and hard to realize. If you grind your teeth during the day or night, you are slowly but surely grinding away some of your teeth’s enamel. Occasionally grinding your teeth won’t be a big deal, as the damage is insignificant. But continued grinding will wear down the teeth, leading to more serious problems like cavities or jaw disorders. You can even get headaches and migraines from grinding your teeth. At Holly Dental Care, our dentists can help you stop grinding your teeth and stop both the damage and the headaches.

Bucky the Beaver’s oblivious schemes of traditional regulations may be overturned after all. Operating under the council of the American Dental Association, the center for Evidence-Based Dentistry finds and develops resources to help answer the personal needs of patients. The ADA defines as such: “EBD is a patient-centered approach to treatment decisions, which provides personalized dental care based on the most current scientific knowledge… ’an approach to oral health care that requires the judicious integration of systematic assessments of clinically relevant scientific evidence, relating to the patient’s oral and medical condition and history, with the dentist’s clinical expertise and the patient’s treatment needs and preferences’”.