Restorative Care News Posts
It’s a scary situation, no matter whether it happens to you or to a child in your care. One moment, everything’s fine. The children are playing nicely, the game is going smoothly, or you’re jogging across the street to get to the bus stop. Then – a shoelace catches, an elbow connects, or a puck…
Restorative dentistry is what it sounds like at first blush: dentistry that is performed with the goal of restoring your teeth to a healthy state if they’ve been damaged or discoloured through time, accident, or use. This doesn’t just mean making sure your teeth look good. It’s important to make sure that they’re working as…
Cavities and other forms of tooth damage can happen to anyone at any stage of life, and when they do, they need to be fixed. Fillings are the typical go-to for tooth damage (especially cavities), but sometimes, something more extensive is required. That’s where dental onlays and dental crowns enter the picture. Each one has…
From an early age, we all learn the importance of brushing and flossing. However, despite our best efforts, our teeth can put up a good fight. Some teeth have such deep crevices and grooves that it’s almost inevitable that food will get stuck – and when it does, it can quickly turn into a cavity….
Need a Barrie emergency dentist? See this post on dental emergencies. Not a weekend goes by where we do not get a call to our emergency dentist number (705.733.0880) asking for help with a toothache or some other oral pain. Toothaches happen. We get it. But, it doesn’t have to be that way! Read on for…
Here is a case of four ceramic dental crowns done on upper broken front teeth that we are quite proud of. The reason is not so much the appearance of the final result, but the workup. We hope that the workup (what you cannot see) will make the case last much longer. Let us explain, with some…
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…
While many of us have had dental fillings, we seldom get to see them being done. Many a parent has commented about not knowing what work actually goes into placing a filling, until they watch his/her child having it done! We’ve written about fillings before, here, here and here, and this case is a pretty…