When you experience tooth loss, the missing space (or spaces) in your smile can lead to several negative consequences for your oral health and structures. For instance, the jawbone structure that supports and sustains your teeth roots can suffer from the lack of stimulation. Your bite overall can experience trouble as your remaining teeth struggle… Read more »
Category: Jaw Surgery
An Overview of Jawbone Grafting
Oral surgery offers a number of solutions for dealing with oral health concerns that are too complex for general dental treatment. Issues that can impact structures beyond your teeth and gums, such as your upper or lower jawbone, may require surgery to address in a successful manner. In some cases, that solution includes surgically grafting… Read more »
Ways Your Jawbone Can Grow Weaker Over Time
For many common oral health problems, the visible impacts they have on your smile are limited in their earliest stages. It’s the more severe phases of oral health concerns that can begin to have noticeable impacts on the appearance of your smile, facial structures, and more. Depending on the nature of your oral health concern,… Read more »
3 Things that Can Impact Your Jawbone
For your general dental health care, the focus is often mainly on your teeth and gum tissues. That’s because the most common chronic dental issues are tooth decay and gum disease, which develop in and progress through these tissues. However, some of the more complex concerns that could affect your oral health involve the size,… Read more »
What Jawbone Grafting Has to Do with Dental Implants
The good news about dental implants is that they don’t just replace lost teeth roots, they also help preserve your jawbone’s strength and integrity by stimulating it. Every time you bite and chew with your new implants, the stimulation tells your body that your jawbone has teeth to support with minerals and nutrients. However, until… Read more »
Reasons Why Your Jawbone Might Be Weaker than Before
As the foundation of your smile, the health and integrity of your jawbone structure play important roles in most aspects of your oral health. If it’s compromised due to weakness or a deformity in its structure, then correcting the issue may help improve your oral health, your bite function, your smile’s and face’s appearance, and… Read more »
Oral Surgery: What About Before And After?
You may have recently found out that in order to get your smile back to the good health you prefer to maintain, your general dentist has suggested you come in to meet with our very friendly team of oral and maxillofacial surgeons in Santa Rosa, CA! As a result, you have to leave your usual… Read more »
How To Convince Yourself To Schedule An Oral Surgery Consultation
In your heart of hearts, you are well aware that what you need is oral surgery. You even know from your dentist or from simply hearing about us that our Santa Rosa, CA oral and maxillofacial surgery practice is here, waiting for your call! However, you’re missing that final push, that convincing bit of motivation… Read more »
Oral Surgery: Embarrassed By Your Smile Damage?
Here’s the scenario: You know without any doubt that what you need in order to get your smile back in shape is oral surgery. You’re not worried about receiving it and you’re actually looking forward to making your smile all better again. However, what you are dealing with that’s not so fantastic is some embarrassment… Read more »
Our Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery Practice: Why We Love What We Do!
We’d like to let you in on a little (not so secret) fact: The oral and maxillofacial surgeons at our Santa Rosa, CA practice love what we do! What’s that, you ask? Well, in short, we offer you comprehensive oral surgery services, including advanced imaging technology, all under one roof. We provide you with the… Read more »
Dr. Rogers was published in CDA’s November Issue. Click above to see his article (pg.601).