A minor problem can be enough to significantly disrupt your smile and rob you of confidence. Dental injuries, concerns around discoloration, and naturally occurring issues with tooth size and shape can all affect someone’s comfort with their appearance. While the reasons people seek cosmetic dentistry can vary, one treatment option can prove effective under many different circumstances. With porcelain veneers, your smile can become more uniform, visible flaws can be hidden, and the color of your teeth can improve. Our Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office is prepared to meet with patients and discuss the potential benefits offered by veneers. (more…)
Stop Putting Off Plans To Restore Your Incomplete Smile
When you put off restorative dental work to replace missing teeth, you leave yourself vulnerable to more than just problems with your appearance. Just one lost tooth is all it can take to experience trouble with your bite, an issue that can worsen over time as you put stress on your jaw joints and muscles. Your gap in your smile also makes you vulnerable to losing more teeth, and may even affect the way you speak. Our Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office is prepared to give you back your complete smile by planning and providing prosthetic dental work. When that work includes the placement of a dental implant (or implants) to keep a restoration in place, treatment can even protect you against jawbone resorption. (more…)
Will Holiday Fun Lead To Cavities For Your Kids?
While holiday festivities vary from family to family and year to year, seasonal treats tend to be a fixture at even the most casual of gatherings. Between the richer foods you can enjoy during a meal and the array of desserts you can consume after, your teeth can be more vulnerable to dental decay than usual at this time of year. While adults tend to recognize their risks and work to manage them, kids often have less impulse control, making them more likely to make the most of their increased access to sweets. Our Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office can help kids stay on top of their oral health care by offering guidance on good hygiene in addition to the regular preventive dental services that benefit patients of all ages. (more…)
What Should I Do About This Persistent Toothache?
Is a persistent problem with tooth pain or sensitivity starting to upset you? If so, make sure your dentist knows what is happening and has a chance to evaluate you! The discomfort you feel could be due to an infection that has formed and begun causing problems within your tooth. This is not something that will go away on its own. If too much time passes, you can wind up losing your tooth! Your Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office is prepared to help you if you think your toothache might be related to an infection. After an evaluation, we can determine if it is necessary to perform root canal therapy to restore the tooth’s health. If the problem has gone on for a longer period of time, or if you are having trouble tolerating the pain you feel, you should know that our dental practice does take emergency appointments. (more…)
Will You Be Able To Secure Dental Treatment On Short Notice?
Patients are advised to spend six months between every dental exam. If you feel like something may be wrong with your oral health between these appointments, you can certainly reach out to arrange an appointment before that six month period passes. What you should also know is that when a problem seems urgent, you can count on our Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office for emergency dental treatment! During these appointments, we will take care to find out what the cause of your smile trouble is before moving forward with the appropriate restorative dental work. Our goal during procedures to restore your oral health, including those procedures that are arranged on short notice, involves caring for problem teeth while also helping patients regain confidence in the way they look! (more…)
Can Your Dental Filling Really Go Unnoticed By Others?
If you have a cavity, it is important that you seek treatment from your dentist as soon as you can. By making your restorative dental treatment a priority, you stop a cavity from growing further and doing more damage to your tooth. Our Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office will address cavities with dental fillings whenever possible. These restorations only occupy the space where decay formed, leaving the surrounding enamel alone. You can be happy to know that the filling you receive can match the color and texture of your healthy enamel, ensuring that the restoration is difficult to see. (more…)
Identifying Symptoms Of Nighttime Teeth Grinding
If you frequently wake up feeling pain in your face and jaw, or notice that your teeth are starting to look flat or worn, you should look into treatment for nighttime teeth grinding issues. Patients with this problem, bruxism, can experience worsening symptoms over time if they do not address it. The pressure you place on your jaw by grinding or clenching your teeth can lead to chronic pains, difficult or stiff bite movement, and trouble with chronic headaches. You can also chip or crack your enamel, which will lead to difficulties with your oral health as well as your appearance. At our Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office, we can address problems with bruxism by protecting your teeth at night, and by performing any necessary work to restore teeth that have been damaged. (more…)
The Cosmetic Benefits Of Bonding And Contouring Treatment
Through cosmetic dental work, your Maple Grove, MN dentist can raise your confidence in the way you look by taking care of flaws that have made it hard for you to comfortably show off your smile. Several treatment options are available, which means you can select a procedure that you are comfortable with, and one that can reliably address the issues that make you self-conscious. Patients who want to make specific changes to certain teeth that are a poor fit for their smile can learn about the benefits of cosmetic bonding and contouring work. This approach to treatment minimizes changes to your tooth structure while making corrections to shape, size, and color that deliver lasting esthetic improvements. (more…)
How Long Should You Go Between Dental Checkups?
Is a dental checkup something you need to schedule even when your teeth feel fine, or can you put off an appointment until you suspect that something is actually wrong with your oral health? When patients decide they only have to see their dentist for active concerns, they make themselves vulnerable to problems because they lose out on teeth cleanings. They are also more likely to suffer complications when trouble forms, because their dentist will not have the opportunity to spot trouble in its early stages. Our Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office is prepared to help you if problems arise and require restorative dental work, but remember that we can also help you prevent these issues when you schedule regular dental exams! (more…)
What Are Your Treatment Options If You Want A Whiter Smile?
When people start to worry about the color of their teeth, their first effort to address their problem could involve the use of whitening toothpaste. In addition to switching toothpastes, they may purchase a whitening kit that is available at their nearby grocery store or pharmacy. If you attempt to use these products, you may find that they have some benefits, but that they ultimately do not deliver the kind of smile improvements you hoped for. So what should you do if you want to make your smile significantly brighter? Our Maple Grove, MN dentist’s office is prepared to offer two approaches to professional whitening treatment. You can pick up a customized whitening kit from our practice and use it at home, or you can schedule an in-office procedure. Both of these options can lead to the effective removal of stains that have affected the way you look. (more…)