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A Brief Look at Tooth Loss and Oral Health

Tooth loss isn’t an obscure oral health concern. Most people are aware that it’s a concern, and for the most part, understand what it could mean for their smiles if it occurs. However, there are plenty of things about tooth loss that people don’t fully understand, or are mistaken about, including how it occurs, how […]

The Ways Dental Implants Address Your Tooth Loss

Tooth loss doesn’t have to be devastating to your smile and oral health, especially if you deal with it as soon as possible. By replacing your lost tooth or teeth, you can restore much of your bite’s function, rebuild your smile’s appearance, and much more. However, some options for rebuilding your smile are better than […]

Why Is Tooth Loss Such a Big Deal?

When many people think about tooth loss, the condition seems devastating for numerous different reasons. To some, it’s because of the impact that tooth loss does or can have on their smiles’ appearance, which can be more significant the more teeth are lost. There are also consequences for your bite’s function, which can suffer when […]

Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Address Tooth Loss

Dental emergencies, which can often obviously require immediate attention, aren’t the only causes for people to lose teeth. In fact, more people experience tooth loss due to a chronic oral health condition known as gum disease. When you lose a tooth due to something that doesn’t seem like an emergency, the need to replace the […]

Boost Your Chances of Preventing Tooth Loss

If you’ve ever worried about experiencing tooth loss, the good news is that preventing it is usually highly possible. There’s no secret to it; many of the most common causes behind adult tooth loss are things that can typically be prevented, or managed before tooth loss occurs. The problem for many people is that they […]

Concerned About Tooth Loss? Here’s What to Know

Tooth loss today isn’t what it used to be. More people than ever are able to prevent it, and those who experience it are able to rebuild their smiles with more lifelike results than ever before. However, the loss of a tooth is still a significant event in the course of your oral health care. […]

Things that Get Worse After Tooth Loss

To some people, tooth loss seems like a cosmetic issue. The biggest impact it has on their lives might be their smile’s appearance, at least at first, which is why that’s often the biggest motivating reason to seek treatment to replace their lost teeth. However, tooth loss is a big deal for nearly every aspect […]

Things Everyone Should Know About Tooth Loss

Nearly everyone knows that it’s possible to lose one or more teeth as adults. In fact, many people expect it to happen to them at some point in their futures, if it hasn’t already. However, the impression that tooth loss is always inevitable, or that there’s nothing you can do to prevent it and its […]

3 Important Aspects of Tooth Loss

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 […]

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 […]

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