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My son is 23 years old. He is a drug addict who is in recovery, and his teeth are completely ruined. The dentist at the clinic says he should just have all of them pulled and replace them with dentures. Right now, I recognize that this is the only avenue open to us. The teeth…
I was recently the victim of an assault, and was punched quite hard right in the mouth. I had to go to the emergency room to get stitches because it tore the corner of my mouth. While I was there they did a CAT scan, and said there are no fractures, but my front teeth…
For more than twenty years I have had crowns on my two front teeth. They are porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns, as was normally placed back in the day. They have never looked all that great, but in recent years they have really started to look terrible. There is a dark line right where the crowns meet my teeth,…
I travel a lot, and time to get any kind of appointment taken care of is in short supply. I recently had an emergency root canal done on an infected tooth (one of my first premolars) while I was on the road, and the dentist said I would probably need a porcelain crown. I am home…
I have a problem. The numbing medications used by dentists simply do not work on me like they do on other people. Added to that, I have put off some pretty extensive dental work that needs to be done, and now the thought of having to go through that without adequate pain medication is literally…
Even though I am well into my forties, up until last week I still had all my wisdom teeth. A broken filling in one of the wisdom teeth prompted my dentist to advise me to have both the upper ones out, which I did. She said that replacing a filling in a wisdom tooth would…
I have been talking to my dentist about what to do to restore my smile. I have significant wear on my top teeth, and a gap between my two front teeth that has bothered me most of my life. Before I talked to my dentist about this, I did all kinds of research on the…
My son is six years old. I’ve just started to research dental information to address some serious problems with his teeth. He has at least four cavities that I can see. Two of them are small in diameter, but seem to be quite deep, and two other teeth have actually started to chip away from…
Will Crest Whitestrips (or any other over-the-counter whitening product) damage my porcelain veneers ? I had porcelain veneers placed on my teeth a couple of years ago, and while the veneers still look fantastic my other teeth have yellowed quite a bit. It is pretty noticeable, since I got the veneers to match my then…
I am in my early 20’s and just recently graduated from college. For almost as long as I can remember, my front teeth have been discolored. I have ALWAYS taken really good care of my teeth (no cavities!), but my mother told me the discoloration was caused by an illness I had as a small…
