Aug 15 2011
We tend to take our bodies for granted these days. Medicine has reached a point where many health problems that have lifestyle as their cause are treatable, reversible, and/or curable. At least, sometimes. Take heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and many other ailments. they can be treated if caught early enough and patients [...]
Jan 12 2011
Here’s a short trivia question related to dental health. What do you think is the most common dental procedure in today’s society? Let me tell you that in the past it was drilling and filling followed closely by extractions. While a dental examination could be the answer, I am not counting that as an actual [...]
Dec 02 2010
Here’s a scary, or perhaps welcome, thought. If our children could grow into adulthood with perfect well-cared-for teeth, the cost of dental health insurance would plummet dramatically over the next 20-30 years. Too late for many of us, but I am sure our children, and their children to come, would welcome that outcome. It is [...]
Nov 13 2010
Dentists obviously extract teeth when they are rotten and beyond repair. However, there are many other situations when a dentist will need to extract a tooth. Some of these situations include:
Impacted teeth such as an impacted wisdom tooth
Overcrowding of teeth
Broken or cracked teeth that cannot be repaired
Teeth where root canal treatment is not possible
Non-functional teeth [...]
Jun 29 2009
Our teeth are one of those necessities in life and today’s dental health philosophy is based on prevention rather than finding cures. If you think about it, our teeth arrive in our mouths totally free of charge. If we neglect them, the cost in dollar terms can be huge whilst the cost of preventing dental [...]