Our Sedation Options

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Dental surgery offers solutions for a variety of oral health concerns, improving the function, health, and even the beauty of your smile. We know that sometimes these can be complex procedures, and that they can be difficult for those with dental anxiety. Fortunately, your Newport Beach, CA, dentist can help calm our patients with sedation dentistry. We offer these calming solutions to make dental visits a positive experience and comfortable one, even if you have major phobias about visiting the dentist! After all, everyone deserves optimal oral health.

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Securing Your New Dental Implant

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Losing one of your teeth can be a disappointment, but fortunately, there are steps you can take to restore your smile. Left untreated, the gap in your smile can make it difficult to enjoy your favorite meals. As your neighboring teeth shift into the open area, your alignment changes for the worse, which can lead to an increased risk for tooth decay and gum disease. By tackling this problem with a custom dental prosthetic, you can return the look of a full smile with the function of a lifelike replacement tooth!

At your Newport Beach, CA dental practice, we are happy to help you explore your options for restoring your smile. When you come into our office, we can evaluate the health of your mouth to determine if you are a candidate for a dental implant. This solution secures steadily within your jaw to hold a dental crown for years. By learning more about your options for steadying your bite, you can relieve the frustration of your dental loss.

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Extracting One Of Your Teeth

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When your dentist suggests removing one of your teeth, it can come as a bit of a surprise. After all, the goal of dental care is to preserve the health of your teeth as much as possible. Sometimes, this can mean sacrificing a problem tooth to protect the rest of your mouth or create room for a new prosthetic. Rest assured we will resort to this option after exhausting all prior methods to save an injured member of your bite. We may extract the remaining shards of your tooth’s roots after decay has worn away too much material to receive a dental crown. You may also need removal if root canal therapy is unable to clear the infection from the inner pulp chamber of a tooth. Think of this procedure as the first step in returning a healthy bite!

At your Newport Beach, CA dentist’s office, we can remove one of your teeth to begin planning a replacement prosthetic. Appliances such as dental bridges and implants can return both the look and feel of a real tooth. By placing a prosthetic after removing your tooth, you do not need to worry about an unsightly gap in your grin!

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How To Respond To A Dental Emergency

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A dental emergency could happen to any of us, and could lead to damaged teeth, compromised prosthetics, and lost teeth! With the right actions, you can ease your discomfort before seeing our team for treatment. In today’s blog, your Newport Beach, CA, dental office can offer relief and lifelike results following a dental emergency. Don’t live with dental damage and discomfort, as we can offer care to prevent complications from arising that threaten your smile’s stability and beauty.

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Extracting Your Problem Tooth

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If your dentist suggests removing one of your teeth, it can sometimes be unexpected. By seeking care, you would like to preserve your teeth, but certain oral health problems require extracting your problem tooth to preserve the health of the rest of your mouth. If a case of tooth decay progresses too far for a dental filling or crown to fix, a removal allows us to take the remaining shards of your tooth’s root. There are other cases where root canal therapy fails to fully remove a bacterial infection, and removing the tooth helps prevent the bacteria from entering your bloodstream and spreading throughout your body. Sometimes a physical injury simply breaks away too much of a tooth to stably hold repair work. Whenever any of these unfortunate events occur, think of removing your tooth as the first step in restoring your smile with a lifelike prosthetic.

At your Newport Beach, CA dental practice, we will only suggest extracting a tooth when no other conservative procedure is available to treat your injury. We can offer a dental bridge or implant to restore your smile after clearing your problem tooth. This means that pulling a tooth does not need to leave a permanent gap in your smile.

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The Value Of A Dental Implant

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If you have recently lost one of your teeth, you know how quickly it can alter your day-to-day life. Not only does a missing tooth impact the look of your smile, but the simplest activities can become rather difficult. Your speech can be altered as you normally rely upon all of your teeth to articulate your words. You may find yourself avoiding some of your favorite foods to prevent harming the socket of your missing tooth. Because all of our teeth work in concert to form our bite, you can find your smile misaligning, leading to further harm as time progresses. This is why restoring your tooth with a dental implant is so valuable to improving your quality of life.

At your Newport Beach, CA dental practice, we would like to educate you on all of your options for repairing your smile after losing one of your teeth. With the right prosthetic, you can enjoy the strength of a full bite while returning your smile’s appearance. Modern ceramics allow us to shade your replacement tooth directly in line with your remaining teeth, so you will not worry about an unsightly metallic glean in your grin!

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Restoring Missing Teeth With An Implant

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Adjusting to losing one of your teeth can be rather difficult. Not only does the gap in your smile take a toll on your appearance, but simple everyday activities become not so simple to complete. You may find certain foods injure your open socket, and articulating speech can become hard as well. Fortunately, a dental implant can return the appearance of a natural tooth while restoring your bite. In combination with restorations such as dental crowns and fixed bridges, an implant post provides critical permanent support within your jaw.

At your Newport Beach, CA dental practice, we would like you to know that options are available to restore your missing tooth. You need not feel overwhelmed as we can provide a lifelike replacement in a handful of visits to our office. Enjoy your full smile once again with the aid of a new tooth!

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Restoring Your Smile With Gum Grafting

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Woman sitting outdoors smilingWhen it comes to preserving a healthy smile, your gums play an integral role in your overall oral health. While you may think primarily of your teeth themselves when performing smile care, any problem that threatens the health of your gums can destabilize your grin. If you allow a case of infection to advance or brush your teeth too vigorously, you can cause the gum tissues to recede and expose your roots. The lengthened look of your teeth and uneven gumline can contribute to an advanced appearance than before. Because recession exposes once-covered sensitive tissues, you can experience pain and risk further harm from oral bacteria.

At your Newport Beach, CA dental practice, we can examine your gumline and discuss procedures to restore its original length. A gum grafting oral surgery can address your esthetic concerns and return the protection of robust gum coverage. Visit our office at your convenience to learn more about this solution for your gingival recession!

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