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Ouch! You’ve got a painful tooth, and from the looks of it, the damage goes deep. Anything that stops the pain is worth it, so it’s time to make an appointment and go get a tooth pulled, right? Not so fast – you might actually be requesting a more drastic procedure than you really need….
While it would be great if wisdom teeth actually made you wiser, there’s actually a lot you can learn about them and about how they impact your mouth. You may never know you have them, or you may wake up one morning as a young adult unable to think about anything other than the new…
For too long, the root canal has been the victim of a decades-old smear campaign. It’s one of the procedures patients dread the most, but it’s also one of the most important and – surprise! – it’s less painful than the pain caused by the bad tooth in the first place. It’s time to give…
Once in a while, we (OK, just Dr. Wong) goes overboard and wants to document the heck out of a case. So, in pure voyeuristic interest, the following photos depict a step-by-step viewing of a root canal procedure done in our Barrie office! We are sure you’d like the pics, because people like nothing more than…
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…
This post addresses a very common situation and question that we encounter in daily practice: the root canal. What is it? And what is involved? First off, we should talk about a normal tooth. When forming, teeth form from the outside in (roughly), and at the end of the formation phase, a space at the…
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