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Intraoral Camera Reveals All

Spies in comic books use miniature cameras to secretly take pictures. We, too, have a miniature camera, but we use it to show you exactly what is happening in your mouth. This new technology is called an intraoral camera. Gone are the days of using a mirror that gave you only partial glimpses of your teeth. Also gone are the concerns of potentially missing a problem area that can easily be overlooked when we do a visual examination. An intraoral camera uses a tiny video camera at the tip of a wand that is about the size of a ballpoint pen. The camera is powered by electricity; there is no radiation. As we slowly move the wand throughout your mouth, the large, full-color images instantly appear on a TV screen or a computer monitor.
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CEREC CAD/CAM is Our One Stop Shopping Center

Dentistry is ever-changing, with better technology popping up like shopping malls. To make your dental experience more pleasurable, we can restore a tooth in just one visit when we use CEREC CAD/CAM technology. In the good old days you would have needed at least two office visits for us to replace a filling, fix a broken tooth or cover stained or misshapen teeth with restorations such as crowns or veneers. We no longer need to take messy impressions and send them to a dental lab where the restoration is made. Any restoration created in a lab can take two or more weeks before it is finished and back in our office, and it may need to be sent back to the lab for additional refinement. In rare instances, it may need to be remanufactured from scratch. This is an inconvenience to you.
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Long in the Tooth is Not Natural

You may have heard an older person humorously referred to as being “long in the tooth.” This old idiom refers to a way to determine the age (and decreased value) of a horse because its gums recede as it ages. First and foremost, it is a myth that receding gums is a natural part of the human aging process. Second, your teeth stopped growing when you were young. Receding gums might be funny on a horse, but they are no laughing matter to an elderly person. Being called long in the tooth is unflattering, but most importantly, it can indicate that you have a serious dental problem. If you have noticed over time that your crowns seem to be getting longer, it is wise to have us examine your teeth to rule out any existing problem that needs to be corrected so that you do not risk losing your teeth.
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Safety First with Denture Cleansers

Smoke detectors. Flashing lights. Speed bumps. Warning labels. These are all ways of providing important information to people to keep them from harm. Warning labels, for example, appear everywhere—on food, medications, laundry soap boxes, and on oral care products. We recently came across information about using denture cleansers that made us shudder and wanted to share that information and some advice with you. According to the Food and Drug Administration, some people incorrectly use denture cleansers and are damaging their health—and worse. Denture cleansers are not intended to be used directly in your mouth because they contain an ingredient that can cause an allergic reaction.
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