Wisdom Teeth Removal: Plan For Your 2019 Treatment

If you are sitting at home, shaking your head because you’d love to come in to see our Rohnert Park, CA team as soon as possible for wisdom teeth removal but you essentially have your life planned and booked from now through the final day of the year, then we can help. Whether you need your teeth removed or you are working on this treatment for your son or daughter, there’s no reason to feel upset or like there’s no other option. Call us today. Come in for a consultation, should you need one. Then, come in as soon as you can in 2019 for extractions. Consider some further details for easy planning.

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How To Avoid The Decay That Leads To Extractions

You may wonder about tooth decay and if there’s anything you can really do to avoid it. Sure, you always hear that if you take good care of your smile, it will help keep you in the cavity-free club but if you’re not feeling so sure about what that entails or how foolproof it really is, then it can cause you to feel less than enthusiastic about trying. Wonderful news: You can most certainly avoid the decay that can lead to an unwelcome need for a dental extraction when you’re on target with some very simple approaches toward keeping your smile clean and free of plaque and tartar. Consider our Santa Rosa, CA team’s details.

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Healing, Recovery, And Dental Implants!

We hear a lot from patients about what happens immediately after their dental implants are placed. They want to know what to expect from recovery, what type of healing is going to occur, what they need to consider in order to be prepared, and why it seems to take quite a long time (if you’re comparing the experience with receiving something like a dental bridge). As you might have already figured out, our Rohnert Park, CA oral surgery team is ready to respond to such uncertainty with some very simple answers that can make you feel a whole lot better about your outlook post-placement!

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How To Look Forward To Oral Surgery (Instead Of The Opposite)

Every time you end up talking about your oral surgery that you have planned for the future with our Rohnert Park, CA team, do you instantly light up and feel excited? Or, do you find that you feel a bit anxious, you mention to the person you’re speaking with that you just don’t want to talk about it, and you try to shove the thought elsewhere? We know that especially for patients that have not received this type of oral health care before, it can be a little bit scary. We would love for you to consider some suggestions that we like to offer our patients that may help you say goodbye to any nervousness you’re experiencing and instead to say hello to actually looking forward to the treatment!

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Your Child’s Wisdom Teeth: When It’s Time To Talk With Us

You know in your heart, or perhaps in the very back of your mind in recesses you try to ignore, that your child may at some point require wisdom teeth removal surgery! You may not like the idea of having to have your child receive a procedure. You might simply find that it seems like an inconvenience. Or, you may feel strongly about it happening but aren’t sure that we will agree that extractions are necessary. No matter how you feel about this topic at the moment, there may very well be one thing that stands out: You’re not sure when it’s time to talk with us about it! While our Santa Rosa, CA team reassures you that truly, anytime is a good time, we also offer up some common moments that generally mean you should be speaking with us!

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Dental Implant Options: Details We Consider

We talk an awful lot about the fact that you have oh so many options when you decide that you would like dental implants for your smile. This may sound “good” to you, of course, because nobody enjoys feeling severely limited. However, the whole “options” thing may feel somewhat fuzzy to you because you’ve only just begun learning about implants. Our Rohnert Park, CA team would like to help you feel clearer about the types of details that we consider and how they can play into making your final decision much easier and something you feel enormously happy you’ve selected.

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From Missing Teeth To Implants: Embrace And Enjoy The Difference

When you are used to something, whether it’s good or not-so-good, it can be very difficult to make a change. This is often very true of individuals who are missing teeth but who would like to change that by coming in to our Santa Rosa, CA practice to receive dental implants. While you know this is, of course, a fantastic decision that will mean a very positive impact for your smile, that doesn’t mean you aren’t a bit fearful of the changes. What will happen when your smile becomes different, thanks to teeth replacements? While it can seem a bit scary, we are here to remind you that these differences will actually mean such wonderful things for your smile and its future. Find out just what we mean as we answer common questions.

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Dental Implants: Like Hitting The Restart Button!

There are so many ways to look at dental implants, which is why our Rohnert Park, CA team talks about shifting your perspective quite frequently. While we can get quite complex or abstract about it, we can also offer a very simplified suggestion: Just think of choosing implants as a choice that’s similar to hitting the “restart” button on anything that isn’t working. What’s a “restart” get you? Well, it clears everything that’s been happening and puts you back to a previous moment (think about restarting a video game, your computer, etc.). Why not enjoy this exceptional benefit for your smile, which lets you return to a better time when your grin was complete, completely functional, and looked lovely?

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Misconceptions: Who Oral Surgery Is For!

Have you recently been told that you may need oral surgery but you let that information go in one ear and out the other? If you feel dismissive of this type of care for your oral health, then it’s possible you need to learn a bit more about it and allow our Santa Rosa, CA team to speak to some misconceptions. When you’re getting even the slightest detail wrong, you might have an idea about dental surgery that’s not at all accurate, which then causes you to miss out on exactly the type of oral improvement you need. Let us better your understanding of our care, so you see it is likely more suited to you than you realize!

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Dental Implants: 3 Easy Things To Learn About Before 2019

You might have the sense that since 2018 is winding down, you may have missed your chance to learn about dental implants and begin getting started with replacing missing teeth. The good news is that even though you might not have your smile totally complete by the end of the year, there is more than enough time to begin. There is a lot to learn, of course, and plenty of time to sort through the details and find yourself thoroughly ready to begin implementing a care plan. Give our Rohnert Park, CA team time to introduce a few very easy, yet very impactful things there are most certainly time to learn about before the New Year.

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