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For many people in Barrie, a dental filling or crown may be the only artificial body part they have. When a tooth can no longer be saved, whether caused by trauma, decay, or gum disease, it must be extracted. But why replace a missing tooth, and what prosthetics are available? First, the why: Missing teeth…
Most of the general public in Barrie recognizes the word gingivitis, and thanks to some Listerine commercials in the 80’s, consider it a problem to be feared. We’ve written about gingivitis before, and in its most common form, it’s not a big deal in our eyes. The real gum disease problem is periodontitis. This post…
In Barrie, we are lucky enough to have the Simcoe-Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre at RVH, part of a large expansion of the hospital as a whole. This means convenient access to oncology care for citizens of this region. However, RVH oncology does not have its own in-house dental clinic, so people requiring pre-oncology dental care…
Amongst the arsenal of dental cosmetic treatments available to us in Barrie, few offer such dramatic changes in such a short time as dental microabrasion. This is a great treatment for brown or white stains on teeth that arose as a result of some sort of enamel formation defect (technically, dysmineralization). When enamel is forming,…
Giving someone Roger Federer’s racquet will not make that person Roger Federer. Nor will giving someone Wayne Gretzky’s equipment make that person play as well as The Great One. We’ve all seen advertisements from all sorts of businesses, dental and non-dental, promoting themselves as having “state of the art” equipment of one sort or…
We’re noticing that more and more people wish they could do something about their gummy smiles, or gumlines that are uneven. This seems to be a hot topic, and makes us pleased that more and more people are paying attention to more than just their teeth. The secret’s out: the look of a smile depends…
It’s a new and hopefully happy new year for everyone, and for many, it is a year of new dental benefits! First of all, we will NOT be on the bandwagon of offices who say “Great! Let’s use up those benefits!” As we have stated many times before, dental needs are determined by your teeth,…
For various reasons, some people suffer from some sort of anxiety when coming to their dentist. For these people, the anxiety can sometimes be so overwhelming that they avoid going at all. If you’ve had that problem, or you would like your dental visits to be more pleasant, sedation can often provide the relief that…
This column will address a daily pet peeve of ours: the role of dental insurance. And while the answer to the question “Who owns your teeth?” may seem self-evident (literally), we regularly see behaviour that would suggest otherwise. Let’s do a thought experiment to illustrate the deleterious effects of dental insurance on mouths. Yep, we…
Dental implants! You see the advertisements more and more widely, but are they all they are cracked up to be? In a word, yes. As we’ve said before, there is nothing as good as natural teeth, but implants are the most lifelike replacement tooth we have. Read on, and at the end we have some…
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