Your entire body is designed to optimize efficiency, so when something significant changes (like losing one or more teeth), it can have farther reaching impacts than you might expect. Tooth loss in particular is a serious problem for more reasons than patients often realize, and to rebuild your smile, we’ll strive to address all of its many different consequences. Today, we take a look at three of the most notable aspects of tooth loss, and how dental implants can often offer the best solution for addressing them. (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 much more. Today, we examine a few of the more common reasons why your jawbone structure might have grown weaker, and the different solutions we offer to help fortify it again. (more…)
Are Your Risks for Tooth Loss Higher than Usual?
To some people, tooth loss seems like the kind of thing they’re going to have to deal with at some point in their lives. They may believe the best thing they can do is try to keep their smiles healthy until then, not realizing they could be doing more to prevent having to lose and replace their teeth. The truth is that, in many cases, tooth loss is highly preventable. It’s just a matter of identifying your specific risk factors for it, and taking appropriate steps to lower and control those risks. (more…)
3 Things You Can Only Regain with Dental Implants
The thing about your teeth is that they consist of, and are responsible for, a lot more than what you can see. Therefore, replacing your lost teeth in a way that rebuilds your smile’s health and function may require more than you expect at first. For example, in addition to the visible parts of your teeth that make up your smile and process your foods, they also consist of roots that lie within your jawbone and keep them steady. When you experience tooth loss, it’s easy to only see the visible results, but your teeth roots and their vital functions are something you can only regain with the help of dental implants. (more…)
The Results of Postponing Wisdom Tooth Extraction
Wisdom teeth, or third molars, are unique to your other teeth in several important ways. For one thing, they aren’t exactly necessary. Over the past millennia, the human diet has grown softer, and two sets of permanent molars are more than adequate to process it. Our jawbone’s have also grown smaller, which often leads to problems arising with the growth and development of third molars. At our Santa Rosa, CA, oral surgery office, we often recommend surgically extracting impacted wisdom teeth as soon as possible to reduce these symptoms, or avoid them if they haven’t already become noticeable. (more…)
3 Times When Oral Surgery Is the Answer
The idea behind keeping up with good hygiene and visiting your dentist regularly is to prevent, or at least minimize, issues that can compromise your good oral health. When prevention fails, the right general or restorative dental treatment may help you address whatever issue arises. However, in some cases, you may experience an issue with your teeth and/or oral structures that requires more than routine care and treatment. For example, in these instances, oral surgery is often the only solution for successfully restoring your good oral health. (more…)
Calming Answers to Oral Surgery Sedation Questions
There are many factors to consider when you find you or a loved one will be needing oral surgery. Whether you are the patient, or when you have a child in need of wisdom tooth extraction, or an older parent in need of implant dentures, the experienced oral surgeons in Rohnert Park, CA are a trusted resource. It is natural to be concerned about how you can expect your oral surgeon to maintain a patient’s comfort level during and after a procedure. (more…)
3 Not So Wise Wisdom Tooth Choices
You know that they’re called wisdom teeth because these final molars show up last, later in your life, when you’re just entering adulthood and have gained so much more insight! However, while you may feel like quite the knowledgeable sage, it’s very possible you aren’t making the wisest choices in terms of what to do with that final set of molars in your smile! To help you feel certain that you’re selecting plans for yourself that will allow you to easily attain and maintain your healthiest grin, our Santa Rosa, CA team takes a look at a few blunders to avoid. Fortunately, it’s easier to accomplish than you might be thinking!
3 Things To Stop Telling Yourself: When You Want Implants
The certainty that shows up when you realize you want dental implants is not usually something that you find yourself questioning. It’s a simple feeling! You learn about implants, you are missing some of your teeth, and they sound like an absolutely amazing way to solve your current smile problem. However, that doesn’t mean that all of your self-talk is positive in nature! Instead, you may want them so much that you worry you’ll be disappointed, so that internal monologue turns a bit negative (so you don’t feel quite as worried about getting your hopes up a bit too high). Good news: Our Rohnert Park, CA team reminds you that implants are absolutely an option for you. Now, about those things you should stop telling yourself about implants, so you can make room for them in your life (and your smile)…
Not Home For The Holidays? Consider Smile Suggestions!
When you’re not planning on being home for the holidays but you are, instead, heading out on an adventure that brings you to far off lands, to a relative’s home, etc., it’s important to keep something in mind: When oral surgery is also on your agenda for this merry season, you may wish to take a closer look at some aspects of your calendar and your plans just to be on the safe side. Not sure what we’re talking about but you’d prefer to be completely ready? Our Santa Rosa, CA team can definitely help with that!
Dr. Rogers was published in CDA’s November Issue. Click above to see his article (pg.601).