If you have teeth that are misshapen, damaged, dull, discolored, or flawed in some other way, it can be hard to feel truly comfortable showing off your smile. As you look into cosmetic dentistry, you can discover that the right treatment can effectively deal with several of these issues for you, giving you dramatic improvements in a short time. Our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office is prepared to help you by offering treatment with porcelain veneers. We can use veneers to hide many different flaws with the way you look. Their slim design minimizes the need for preparatory work, which means that their placement can have less impact on your teeth than you expect while still delivering exciting improvements! (more…)
What Takes Place After A Cavity Is Identified At A Checkup?
If you are doing a good job caring for your smile between appointments, you can regularly leave routine dental exams without scheduling anything other than your next preventive visit. So what will happen if your dentist notices something wrong with your oral health? At our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office, we are prepared to address a problem once it has been identified. Acting quickly to resolve trouble with your smile limits your risk for complications, and it can ensure that you have your work completed in less time. Because we use CEREC technology to create dental crowns that are available in just one day, we can make short work of your oral health trouble even if your problem calls for more than a dental filling. (more…)
Are You Struggling With Stiff Or Painful Jaw Movement?
Can you simply work around problems with jaw pain or stiffness? Choosing to adjust your bite function, or the way you speak, in order to avoid discomfort can make you more comfortable for a time, but it fails to address the cause of your troubles. In time, that compromised jaw movement can end up causing more problems for you, leading to greater discomfort. Issues with jaw stiffness, pain, facial soreness, and even headaches can all be linked to TMJ disorder. This condition occurs when something has caused problems with the alignment or health of your jaw joints, or when you have unresolved issues with tension in the muscles. At our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office, we are prepared to work with you to reduce tension and better align your joints to help you move past troubles with TMJ disorder! (more…)
3 Things That Patients Ought To Know About Cavity Treatment
What should you expect from a cavity treatment? Is the process going to affect your ability to put bite pressure on your tooth? Will your smile be changed by your restoration? These fears can make people reluctant to see their dentist even if they know that something is wrong. You should recognize that if a cavity has formed, it has to be treated by a dentist or else it will worsen. Eventually, decay can cause enough harm to a tooth to make a tooth extraction necessary! Fortunately, the right treatment can preserve your dental function as well as your appearance! At our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office, we can make sure that your tooth is cared for without changing the way it looks. Thanks to CEREC technology, we can even restore a tooth with an advanced cavity in as little as one visit! (more…)
How Conservative Tooth Bonding Treatments Improve Smiles
Your smile is close to being exactly what you want to show off…unfortunately, a seemingly minor flaw affects your smile symmetry and draws too much attention to itself. For many people, the right cosmetic dental procedure is not focused on making big changes. What they are interested in is a treatment that effectively targets and resolves “small” issues that call excess attention to themselves. At our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office, we can recommend treatment through dental bonding to help you deal with these issues. A tooth bonding procedure restores the appearance of a tooth with a special composite resin material that bonds with your tooth structure. What this means is that we can reshape a tooth, change its size, hide damages, or even improve its color so that it fits in with your smile and no longer hurts your appearance. (more…)
Dental Implants Help You Bite And Chew With More Confidence
You can lose confidence in more than just your smile after you lose a tooth. It can quickly become apparent that your ability to bite and chew will be compromised by the absence of a tooth. If you try to bite down in the area where a smile gap is present, you can have a harder time working your way through your food, and you can potentially loosen the teeth at either side of your gap. Working to avoid that space at all times can lead to more wear and tear on your remaining teeth while also putting stress on your jaw joints and muscles. Fortunately, the right dental prosthetic can actually help you return to a natural bite function. At our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office, we can talk with you about replacing a lost tooth with a dental implant-held prosthetic appliance. (more…)
How Can I Effectively Whiten My Teeth At Home?
While you may like the idea of taking care of a teeth whitening treatment at home, you can find that it is difficult to find a treatment option that delivers the results you hope to see. Whitening products that are available at your local grocery store or pharmacy can have limited benefits, which means you can be stuck with teeth that still seem dull or unattractive. In addition to providing teeth whitening treatments in our office, our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office does provide whitening kits that patients can take home and use on their own time. These kits rely on advanced whitening gels that are not available at your local store or pharmacy, so you can count on them to deliver results that are difficult for these products to match! (more…)
Let Your Dentist Know If Jaw Pain Affects Your Daily Life
If it seems like jaw pain is a problem that affects you on a daily basis, you can be understandably worried about your oral health. What you should know is that this pain may be related to problems with the alignment of your jaw, or with an excess of tension affecting your joints and muscles. These problems, when not resolved, can be attributed to TMJ disorder. At our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office, we can help you put a stop to pain by finding out why this problem affects you, and by determining how to ease tension or alignment issues. A custom oral appliance can actually help reduce pressure on your jaw while also correcting its position. (more…)
Should I Talk To My Dentist About My Cold Sores?
You can feel embarrassed to let others see that you have a cold sore, and uncomfortable with the idea of talking about it. However, if you continue to try and simply hide this problem rather than look into treatment, you may miss out on beneficial care. Your Sheridan, WY dentist can actually help you deal with a cold sore. With a special soft tissue laser, we can target the sore to shrink it, shorten your time with it, and even stop future sores from occurring in the same area. You can stay informed about the general services available from your dentist when you consistently attend regular dental exams. (more…)
Am I Really Able To Receive A Same-Day Dental Crown?
A dental crown must be carefully designed in order to securely fit your tooth, avoid bothering its neighbors, and generally provide lasting protection so that you are able to bite and chew without difficulties. For many practices, the only way to provide a custom dental crown is to have one produced at a third party lab, extending the time it will ultimately take you to receive your restoration. Our Sheridan, WY dentist’s office relies on CEREC technology to craft dental crowns that are ready in as little as one appointment. Through this technology, we are able to digitally measure teeth, design a restoration, and produce it in our office! Once in place, your CEREC crown can restore your tooth’s health while also preserving your smile. (more…)
