Is It Time To Ask Your Dentist About TMJ Treatment?

Are you having a difficult time moving your jaw whenever you talk, laugh, or eat? Are you regularly experiencing painful headaches, or struggling with pain in your face or neck? Over time, an unresolved problem with your jaw can lead to persistent troubles with TMJ disorder. This problem can make the movement of your jaw uncomfortable, and it can cause chronic pain that intrudes on your quality of life. Our Riverside, CA dental practice is prepared to help you resolve the matter in order to relive you of persistent discomfort. Your treatment can include help with chronic teeth grinding, known as bruxism, as this problem is often linked to TMJ troubles. (more…)

We Can Save An Infected Tooth By Performing A Root Canal

The idea of having a serious tooth problem can be scary to some people. Even when an individual is comfortable with routine dental checkups, they can be uncomfortable with planning work to address a problem like advanced tooth decay, which can require a root canal procedure. There are several things you should know if you think you might have a problem with your oral health. One is that our Moreno Valley, CA dental practice provides modern care that prioritizes positive patient experiences, so we can help you feel comfortable throughout your time in the dentist’s chair. Another is that by taking prompt action and arranging your root canal, you can make sure your ongoing tooth troubles are stopped before they have a chance to worsen. (more…)

Professional Teeth Whitening Can Be Effective And Convenient

If you want to enjoy cosmetic dental work that provides truly noteworthy results, you will have to undergo a long and involved treatment…or will you? For patients who want to make significant improvements to the color of their teeth, our Riverside, CA dental practice offers two convenient treatment options. You can elect to come in and see us for a one-visit whitening procedure, or you can take home a special kit that will give you the ability to see expert-quality results from your own home! Through effective and convenient treatment, you can see the kind of results that store bought whitening products can fail to match. (more…)

Are You Being Consistent About Attending Dental Checkups?

If you want to keep your car operating in the best possible condition, you should make sure you have it serviced on a regular basis. Regular preventive care also matters when you want your teeth to stay in the best condition. Our Riverside, CA dental office at Woodcrest is prepared to help you keep your teeth free of issues with decay by providing thorough teeth cleanings, and by performing evaluations to identify any signs of trouble that should be dealt with through restorative dental work. By staying consistent about your checkups, you can keep your teeth in better health, and avoid future problems that might hurt your oral health. (more…)

Restoring A Cavity That Affects Your Child’s Smile

With the right combination of daily oral health support and pediatric dental exams, children can grow up with healthy, problem-free teeth. At our Temecula, CA dental practice, we offer important preventive services during checkups in order to give kids great support against cavities and gum disease, and we provide guidance on caring for their teeth at home. Unfortunately, even when they have oral health support, kids can have some issues with tooth decay as they age. Our office can provide the appropriate restorative dental care in the form of a carefully placed dental filling. In cases where it might be necessary, we can also use dental crowns to restore teeth. Taking care of these problems is important, even when the issue is with a primary (“baby”) tooth. When these teeth experience problems, it can create trouble for the alignment of their permanent teeth. (more…)

Planning Smile Care With A Custom Dental Bridge

In terms of oral health issues, few problems create as much frustration and embarrassment as tooth loss. All it takes is a single absent tooth to make you uncomfortable with biting and chewing, and a visible gap in your smile can leave you deeply self-conscious. At our Corona, CA dental practice, we can offer you an effective solution in the form of a dental bridge. Dental bridges can stay in place without oral surgery, which makes this a convenient means of restoring your smile. Because this restoration enjoys permanent support, you can count on it to help you bite, chew, and speak naturally. (more…)

Insecure About Your Smile? Make Improvements With Veneers

When you lose confidence in your smile, it can affect your social life, and generally bring down your self-esteem. At our Riverside, CA dental practice, we are ready to help you feel excited to show off your smile by making improvements with porcelain veneers. By crafting veneers to correct problems with the shape, size, and/or color of your teeth, we can help you take care of the different flaws that often affect the look of a person’s smile. You can take care of multiple issues at one time when you have veneers placed, making this an effective solution for your esthetic concerns. (more…)

Is A Nightly Teeth Grinding Habit Hurting Your Smile?

Because our teeth are coated by incredibly hard enamel, they can stay in good shape even as we continually rely on them to bite and chew food. Of course, it is important to remember that our teeth are not invulnerable. If you have problems with bruxism that cause you to grind them at night, they can start to show visible wear and tear. For people who do not address this problem, visible changes to their appearance can occur, making them self-conscious. Eventually, you can even experience oral health problems from this problem! Our Moreno Valley, CA dental practice is prepared to help people who struggle with bruxism. You can come to our office to receive a custom appliance that you wear while sleeping to stop grinding and clenching from damaging your smile. (more…)

Is Sleep Apnea Affecting You? Our Dental Office Can Help!

Are you having trouble feeling refreshed when you wake up, and do you feel tired during the day even after a full night’s rest? Do you have a tendency to snore at night, and wake up with a sore throat and dry mouth? These are some of the issues that can affect you if you have an untreated problem with sleep apnea. While people sometimes assume this is “just” a snoring problem, you can actually experience many different health concerns if you let the problem continue. Our Riverside, CA dental practice has experience helping people who struggle with sleep apnea. Instead of requiring you to wear a CPAP machine, we can use a special oral appliance to help keep your airways open throughout the night to stop this problem from further affecting you. (more…)

Our Practice Is Ready To Treat And Restore Your Aching Tooth

Why would you allow a toothache to continue interfering with your quality of life? Problems with a sore or sensitive tooth can make it harder for you to bite and chew, and the discomfort can be a persistent distraction. You can be happy to know that with access to modern dental care, the problem can be addressed with minimal discomfort. Our dental practice in Riverside, CA is prepared to both treat the problem affecting you, and to restore the tooth after that treatment is performed. We can offer a full dental crown, inlay, or onlay depending on how much support you might need after a procedure is completed. (more…)