Pain involving your teeth, even when minor, can indicate a severe underlying problem that could worsen with time. It is important to contact a dentist as soon as possible for a professional evaluation to minimize damage to the teeth, gums, and supporting bone. Short-term action can be taken to relieve oral pain, which can be very severe.
A flexible 24 Hours Dental Emergency Service was created to assist you. No matter what time you feel the onset of toothache or have an emergency dental situation you can call our 24 hour hotline and our dentist will see you immediately.
Dr. David Taft's dental practice offers a carefully selected set of Cosmetic Dentistry procedures. Our methods for Porcelain Veneers, Dental Implants, Dental Bondings, Inlays, Porcelain Crowns, dental Bridges, Teeth Whitening and White Fillings accomplish with the highest standards in the industry. Backed with more than 2 decades of experience, we combine the latest dental technics with a unique service where you, the client, can feel how important and seriously we take your satisfaction.
Dental Implants Restoration
A dental implant is an artificial tooth root replacement and is used in prosthetic dentistry to support restorations that resemble a tooth or group of teeth. A permanent dental implant can offer significant advantages to older style prosthetics such as removable dentures:
Looks, feels and functions like a natural tooth.
Does not compromise or harm adjacent teeth.
Prevents further bone loss by replacing tooth root.
Hygienic (cleans like a natural tooth).
Long term aesthetics (prevents further bone collapse).
The unique design of ITI implants is ideal for molar replacement
Maintains integrity of facial structure.
Increases comfort and stability within the mouth.
Restores natural biting and chewing capacity.
Improves facial appearance by restoring upper lip support.
Eliminates the need for denture adhesives.
Porcelain Crown Dentistry
When decay is first detected in a tooth, the usual action taken by the dentist is to provide the tooth with an intracoronal restoration: a restoration consisting of a dental material that will exist totally within the confines of the remaining tooth structure. The restoration commonly referred to as a "cavity filling", or more colloquially as a "filling", is an intracoronal restoration, and can consist of a number of materials, including silver-colored amalgam, tooth-colored resin or gold. Inlays are also intracoronal restorations.
In a situation where there is not enough remaining solid tooth structure after decay and fragile tooth structure is removed, or the tooth has fractured and is now missing important architectural reinforcements, the tooth might very well require an extracoronal restoration: a restoration consisting of a dental material that will exist around the remaining tooth structure to a varying degree. Restorations that fall into this category include the various types of crowns and onlays, and these can consist of a number of materials as well, including gold, ceramic, or a combination of the two. Ceramic crowns are increasingly being substituted in place of gold crowns for aesthetic and structural reasons. In a recent study, only 1.7% of the ceramic crowns needed to be replaced after 2 years, with 3.7% showing occlusal chipping without need of replacement.
The circumstance of the damaged tooth defines the restoration. In other words, based upon factors such as remaining solid tooth structure, aesthetics, the location of the tooth within the dental arch and the consequent forces of function that said tooth will have to deal with once restored, the dentist will then decide on the proper way to treat the tooth.
Things are not always straightforward when it comes to restoring a tooth. An advantage of crowning a tooth over restoring the tooth with an excessively large pin-supported amalgam or composite restoration is that crowns provide much more protection against future fracture or recurrent decay. The indirect techniques of crown fabrication translate into a more adapted tooth-restoration margin, and thus a better seal against the decay-causing bacteria present in saliva.
Dental Veneers Restoration
In dentistry, a veneer is a thin layer of restorative material placed over a tooth surface, either to improve the aesthetics of a tooth, or to protect a damaged tooth surface. There are two main types of material used to fabricate a veneer, composite and porcelain. A composite veneer may be directly placed (built-up in the mouth), or indirectly fabricated by a dental technician in a dental laboratory, and later bonded to the tooth, typically using a resin cement such as Panavia. In contrast, a porcelain veneer may only be indirectly fabricated.
Root Canal Endodontics
A root canal is the space within the root of a tooth. It is part of a naturally occurring space within a tooth that consists of the pulp chamber (within the coronal part of the tooth), the main canal(s), and more intricate anatomical branches that may connect the root canals to each other or to the surface of the root. The smaller branches are most frequently found near the root end (apex) but may be encountered anywhere along the root length. There may be one or two main canals within each root. Some teeth have more variable internal anatomy than others. This space is filled with a highly vascularized, loose connective tissue, the dental pulp. The dental pulp is the tissue which forms the dentin portion of the tooth. The formation of secondary teeth (adult teeth) is completed by 1-2 years after eruption into the mouth. Once the tooth has reached its final size and shape, the dental pulp's original function ceases for all practical purposes. It takes on a secondary role as a sensory organ.
Root canal is also a slang term for a dental operation i.e., endodontic therapy, wherein the pulp is cleaned out, the space disinfected and then filled.
