This is Melissa. She’s just as friendly in real life as she looks in this photo (see how important a nice smile is?). Anyway, she’s a fully qualified grown up dentist (yes I know she looks too young) with a post graduate qualification in intravenous (twilight) sedation. She comes to...
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In its purest sense preventive dentistry is what you and your dentist do to prevent dental disease. This includes proper home care, including brushing and cleaning between the teeth, use of fluoride toothpaste, proper diet, regular dental maintenance and continuing care appointments.
These are my two precious little kiddies when they WERE little kiddies. Whether your toddler has a mouth filled with teeth or only a few poking through, it’s time to start thinking about keeping that adorable smile healthy. Sure, baby teeth don’t hang around forever (they generally start to...
Professional teeth cleaning. Teeth cleaning (also known as prophylaxis, literally a preventive treatment of a disease) is a procedure for the removal of tartar (mineralized plaque) that may develop even with careful brushing and flossing, especially in areas that are difficult to reach in routine toothbrushing.
Less scary than people make it out to be, but still something you want to avoid through good preventative measures! If pulp inflammation or infection is left untreated, it can cause pain or lead to an abscess. During root canal or endodontic treatment, the inflamed or infected pulp is removed and...
I'm not much of a fan of mercury amalgam fillings. Apart from looking ugly, they tend to cause teeth to eventually crack and break. This is just an example of a few white fillings replacing some mercury fillings.
This young lady was unfortunately missing a front tooth and we decided to replace the missing tooth with a bridge. A bridge is where you put a crown (cap) on the teeth either side of a missing tooth. The 3 teeth are joined together and glued into the mouth....
This is the fabulous and vivacious Tina, who kindly allowed me to put her photo on the cover of my "Getting Your Smile Right" book. Tina's teeth and smile weren't that bad, but she knew she wanted them to look better.