Why teeth might become loose and what you should do if you notice this happening to yours. The majority of us most likely never think about our teeth becoming loose once we are past the childhood stage and have entered …
How we treat stubborn teeth staining at our Wickford dental practice and also offer advice to prevent recurrence. For anyone who wants to have a nice white attractive smile, one of the most frustrating things is that, despite regular and …
What Can Be Done About Persistent Tooth Staining? Read more →
Mouth cancer can be life changing or even life threatening. Here’s how to minimise the risks. Some of you may not have even heard of oral cancer, yet it is thought to kill around three and a half thousand people …
Used at our Wickford dental practice for one procedure only, it contributes heavily to its successful outcome. Perhaps you have never heard of ‘gutta percha’. This is not exactly surprising. Most people know of only two types of dental fillings …
Gutta Percha – The ‘Specialist’ Dental Filling Material Read more →
Largely affecting the younger generation, this time of experimentation can have disastrous consequences for oral health. Much as we might like to think of our own children as ‘little angels’, the reality is that, in their later teenage years, they …
A straightforward summary of the pros and cons of undergoing dental implant placement to replace missing teeth. Although the use of dental implants has increased over the last ten years or so, there are probably still a lot of people …
The enamel surface of our teeth is about much more than aesthetics and contributes to problem free teeth. There are a number of different aspects to a human tooth. For the purpose of this blog, let us base this on …
This common problem might seem fairly insignificant, but please don’t ignore it. We all know that a visit to the dentist is inevitable if a tooth breaks or if we are suffering from a painful bout of tooth decay. Humans …
It might seem a relatively minor issue but it is one that our Wickford patients shouldn’t ignore. When we experience a significant dental problem, such as a broken tooth or a bad toothache, most of us will contact the dentist …
As Autumn arrives, our Wickford dentists look at how changes we make might not be good news for our oral health. It’s been a good summer for sure and few would argue with that, particularly given the amount of sunshine …
