- Dental ExaminationDue to health concerns about fat and high cholesterol, many people have become vegetarians or have been eating a more vegetarian diet. However, nutritional deficiencies sometimes can result and may reveal themselves during dental exams. Your dentist should be advised if you are a vegetarian or on a vegetarian diet. Even though most adult vegetarians are very knowledgeable about nutrition and adequately maintain their diets, children need a well-balanced and nutritionally complete diet for proper growth. The potential for deficiencies is most significant among children and teenagers who put themselves on vegetarian diets without knowing enough about their nutritional needs.
- X-rays
- Fluoride Treatment
- FillingsAmalgam fillings combine elemental mercury, silver, tin, copper, and other metallic elements. Although amalgam filling is still considered safe, many have concerns about the mercury content in amalgams. However, thanks to advances in modern dental materials and techniques, dentists have more ways to create pleasing, natural-looking smiles. Dental researchers continue their often decades-long work developing materials like ceramics and polymer compounds that look more like natural teeth. As a result, dentists and patients today have several choices when it comes to selecting materials to repair missing, worn, damaged, or decayed teeth
- CrownsResearchers at Chalmers University of Technology are developing a new method for determining exactly how to optimally prepare a tooth to place a crown on it. The method will be able to improved quality and reliability of the crown replacements as well as result in significantly cheaper and faster dental treatment.
- Oral Surgery
- Gum SurgeryA dentist will prescribe medications for several reasons. You may get a prescription to help prevent infections after surgical procedures like tooth extractions and gum surgery. A dentist may also prescribe pain medications after major dental work, such as tooth extractions and gum surgery. Though usually, a prescription for pain pills is only for a few days
- Tooth Extractions
- Cosmetic DentistryCosmetic dentistry can change your smile. Cosmetic dentistry can make subtle changes to major repairs. Your cosmetic dentist can perform various dental procedures to improve your smile. Many techniques and options are available to treat discolored, chipped, misshapen, or missing teeth. They can reshape your teeth, close spaces, restore worn or short teeth or alter the length of your teeth. If you have dental insurance, you should confirm if cosmetic dentistry is covered under your plan since many dental insurances do not offer benefits for cosmetic services.
- General DentistryThose Super sized burgers and sandwiches that are sold regularly at fast food restaurants may be too big to eat. Many of them are often made larger than the human mouth. They are forcing many people to take bites too big to chew. The Academy of General Dentistry states that doing this can harm your jaw and teeth. People at particular risk are those that have a temporomandibular joint disorder. (known as TMJ) TMJ can restrict the range of acceptable bite sizes. People with TMJ should avoid opening their mouths too wide since taking large bites of food can aggravate the condition.