Coverage, Durability & Cost: How Veneers and Crowns Compare If you are unhappy with a chipped, stained, or damaged tooth, you have probably come across two common solutions: veneers and crowns. Both can transform a smile, but they work in very different ways, and choosing the wrong one can mean paying for a treatment that does not solve your actual …
How Long Does the Dental Implant Process Actually Take? A Realistic Timeline
Dental Implant Process Timeline: From Consultation to Final Crown One of the first questions patients ask when considering dental implants is how long the entire process will take. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that it depends on your individual situation. Some patients complete treatment in a single day, while others need several months to achieve …
What to Expect at Your First Dental Implant Consultation
Dental Implant Consultation: 7 Steps From First Visit to Treatment Plan If you are missing one or more teeth, you are far from alone. According to the American College of Prosthodontists, roughly 120 million Americans are missing at least one tooth, and more than 36 million have lost all of their natural teeth. For many of these patients, dental implants …
What You Need To Know About Sedation Dentistry
If you live in the Forest, Lynchburg or Roanoke areas of Virginia and have a fear of the dentist, you’re not alone. As the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) points out, an estimated 12% of people have high dental fear and another 17.5% have moderate dental fear. That’s more than the percentage of people with a fear of …
The Real Cost of Full-Arch Tooth Replacement
When it comes to replacing missing teeth in the Forest, VA, area with Same Day Smile permanent teeth, the first question many people have is the same. “What’s it going to cost me?” Debating the cost is common, as many of us simply want to know if there are cheaper alternate solutions. As with most important financial decisions in your …
Signs That It May Be Time for Dental Implants
Dental implants are titanium posts that are placed in your jaw in order to look and act just like your natural teeth. They are often used to replace teeth that have fallen out or been removed. Dental implants are made of titanium so that the new tooth or teeth will fuse to your bone. This helps with regaining chewing ability, …
Why you should visit the dentist
We know, we know – many of you have a horrible experience of a previous visit to the dentist. You may have been just a child and you may have been eating too much candy and you may have gotten cavities and you may have visited the dentist for it. That’s a lot of “may haves”, but a lot of …
The importance of brushing your teeth to minimize visits to the dentist
You may not think like it, but your teeth are very important organs. They have a very important function at the site of the beginning of the entire digestive process – namely, they are used to masticate the food and turn it into smaller pieces that you can then easily swallow and digest. Well, the fact of the matter is …
Teeth extraction and why you should do the procedure
The teeth are very important organs that we humans have. They help us start off the entire digestive process by helping us to chop down the food that we eat into smaller pieces that can, later on, move with ease through the digestive tract. But the fact of the matter is that most of us take our teeth for granted. …
Questions that you need to pose to your dentist
People generally have a respect intermixed with fear when they are to face an authority figure. And where better is this thing exemplified than by how we deal with dentists? Well, believe it or not, even dentists are people. They may feel like they’re holding a great authority that you should never question – but the fact of the matter …