Monthly Archives: tooth replacements

• Do I Need Bone Grafting?

  I’ve been reading a lot of dental websites to try and get a better smile. Yours has some good information. Here are my problems. I know my teeth are showing their age and will need to be whitened. I also have had a dental bridge since I was fifteen. I can see the area looks…

• Does She Need to Remove All Her Teeth?

  I had not had dental care for most of my life. My parents didn’t have dental insurance or money. I was equally in poverty as an adult. I finally was able to improve my circumstances and was able to get to the dentist. As expected, my teeth and gums are a mess. I had two…

• Dental Implant Incompetence

  Can you help me? I had two dental implants placed. One of them felt loose to me. I went back to the dentist and he did an x-ray and said that the implant itself was fine. He felt it was just a matter of the dental crown being loose. He said that was easy to…

• Implant Bridge Does Not Match My Bite

  I had a dental implant bridge placed, but it does not match up with the rest of my bite. Now the side of my teeth with the dental bridge hits first when I bite down, which hurts a LOT. I am wondering if the surgeon did something wrong. He insisted that he was in charge…

• Can Invisalign Work With Missing Teeth

  I never got to have braces when I was younger. Since then, I lost a couple of teeth. I am too embarrassed to smile. I have a job and they recently hinted that they want to promote me. However, because it is an upfront position, I would need to get my smile fixed up. The…

• Trying to Get Answers About Beautiful Restorative Work

  I am having a hard time finding the right information just by looking online on the internet so I am hoping you can help me sort through some things. I need a bunch of restorative work including ten dental implants on my upper arch and five on my lower. I’m not as worried about what…

• Can I Deduct Dental Implants from my Taxes?

  I want to get some dental implants but my dental insurance does not cover it. They will cover the crown, but the implant itself has to come out of my pocket. Here is my question. Are the dental implants tax deductible? If they are, I may squeeze them in before the end of the year…

• Cancer Patients Losing Teeth

  I have had a long year and a half of cancer treatments. My teeth are an absolute wreck as a result. I have several teeth needing crowns and two that are so bad they need to come out. I did brush during my treatments. Though, I threw up a lot so that might be why…

• Is My Husband Reacting to His Dental Implants?

  I am quite sensitive to smells and I’m wondering if my husband is having a reaction to his dental implants. His mouth and breath smell awful. He’s had the implants placed and his dentist has given him temporary, acrylic dentures. Eventually, he’ll have porcelain dentures. However, I’m wondering if we need to switch his dental…

• Temporary Tooth Replacement before Dental Implants

  My daughter has a congenitally missing tooth. Our plan is to replace it with a dental implant once her jaw is completely developed. In the meantime, we have done orthodontics and have the space opened up. Our dentist provided a Maryland Bridge for the temporary tooth replacement as we wait for her jaw to grow,…