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All too many people have given up on their dream of having a perfect set of teeth. It is not unheard of for people to settle with a set of teeth that is far from faultless.

This is mostly because they think that cosmetic dental procedures, procedures that correct the structure of their teeth, would consist of uncomfortable extensive procedures and wearing of braces that last for years. This, however, isn’t necessarily true.

Thanks to the many significant advancements that modern dentistry has seen over the recent years, many cosmetic dental procedures that correct your smile is as effective as it is comfortable. Take dental veneers for instance.

What Dental Problems Can Veneers Resolve?

Durable yet thin laminates that are installed to the fronts of the teeth, dental veneers are used to treat a number of cosmetic dental problems. These include: stained of discolored teeth that have been unsuccessfully treated with teeth whitening procedures, chipped, broken, and jagged teeth edges, abnormally small teeth, and misaligned teeth

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How To Keep Your Child From Dental Phobia

Dental Video, General Dentistry, Oral Health, Preventive DentistryBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)January 25, 2014 Leave a comment

Here’s a 1 minutes and 23 seconds How To Keep Your Child From Dental Phobia video. See full transcript below.

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Dental Implants: The Best Tooth Loss Treatment

Dental Article, Dental Implants, Restorative DentistryBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)January 24, 2014 Leave a comment

Dental implants are essentially the best possible modern treatment for tooth loss.

Unlike much more traditional dentures, which mostly consist of crown replacements, dental implants are designed to replace both the aesthetic and functional dimensions of natural crowns and tooth roots.

Resembling a small screw, dental implants are anchored in your jaw and are fitted with an overlying crown and denture.

The Aesthetic Function Of Your Teeth

Anatomically speaking, the function of a healthy set of teeth goes beyond that of chewing, speaking, and smiling. A healthy set of teeth has an aesthetic function that many people aren’t aware of.

Simply put, your teeth provide the necessary structural framework that supports the soft tissues of both your lips and cheek.

When you lose a tooth, you alter and gradually ruin this framework. Therefore, the more teeth you lose, the more it is likely for your cheeks and lips to collapse inwards

Tooth Roots

When you lose a tooth, you don’t only lose the visible crown that completes your smile. When you lose a tooth, you naturally lose a tooth root, which is crucial in stimulating jawbone activity. This is where dental implants excel as tooth replacements over the more traditional dentures.

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Dentist Gold Coast: 5 Ways To Get Healthier Teeth

Dental Infographic, General Dentistry, Oral HealthBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)January 20, 2014 Leave a comment

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Tips On How To Reduce Mouth Odour

Dental Video, General Dentistry, Oral Health, Preventive DentistryBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)January 11, 2014 Leave a comment

Here’s a 0 minutes and 57 seconds Tips On How To Reduce Mouth Odour video. See full transcript below.

Halitosis, or commonly known as Bad Breath, remains to be a timeless turnoff affecting interpersonal relationships of more than eighty million people in the world.

Getting rid of bad breath isn’t as easy as acquiring it. Oftentimes, the person isn’t aware of having it until somebody else will have the courage to tell him so. And though there are so many products available today claiming to keep fresh breath, figures show that half the world is still having this mouth odour problem.

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Simple Home Remedies For Dental Pain

Dental Article, General Dentistry, Oral Health, Preventive DentistryBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)January 7, 2014 Leave a comment

The intensity of a toothache can vary from mild discomfort to head wrecking pain around your jaw. Among the main causes of dental pain include tooth cavities, gum infection, exposed teeth roots, jaw joint disorders, etc. Essentially, a toothache occurs when the pulp of the tooth becomes irritated.

If you are suffering from dental pain, it is best to consult your doctor right away. If, however, you are unable to immediately visit your local dentist, you can try the following natural home remedies to temporarily relieve the soreness of your tooth.

Pepper And Salt Paste

A homespun mixture of salt and pepper is especially helpful when the painful tooth is extremely sensitive. To use, simply mix equal amounts of pepper and salt with enough water to form a paste. Apply paste on the affected area. Allow the paste to sit on the tooth for a couple of minutes. For treatment to be effective, do apply pepper and salt paste onto affected area daily.

Garlic

Garlic contains antibiotic and a wide range of medicinal properties that are very effective in neutralizing any bacterial effect of a sore tooth. To use, just mix a crushed garlic clove, or garlic powder if you prefer, with table salt. Apply mixture on the sore area to relieve any persisting pain or discomfort. It is ideal if you do this for more than a couple of days.

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Tips To Reduce Cheek & Face Swelling Due To Tooth Abscess

Dental Video, General Dentistry, Oral Health, Preventive DentistryBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)January 4, 2014 Leave a comment

Here’s a 1 minutes and 16 seconds Tips To Reduce Cheek & Face Swelling Due To Tooth Abscess video. See full transcript below.

Gold Coast Dentist: Tips To Reduce Cheek & Face Swelling Due To Tooth Abscess

Does it feel like your face has doubled in size due to all the swelling that’s going on? That is actually a common case happening on people suffering from tooth abscess. It is usually accompanied with bad salty taste in your mouth and throbbing pain whenever you chew. And the swelling starts to occur while you are asleep.

People suffering from tooth abscess are advised to take antibiotic medications. However, there are times that there is no difference in the swelling even after taking some medications. Below are some easy-to-apply remedies that you can do at home:

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Conquering Dentophobia

Dental Article, Dental Checkups, General Dentistry, Oral Health, Preventive DentistryBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)December 27, 2013 Leave a comment

Azenith Arnolds was 10 years old when she visited her dentist for her first tooth extraction. During the procedure, her dentist failed to properly anesthetize her back molar and hit a nerve spot-on. The result was a memory of excruciating physical pain and a paralyzing fear of dentists that persists until today.

Few people get excited about visiting their local dentist. But chronic fear of dentists, otherwise known as odontophobia, prevents millions of people around the world from seeking the proper oral healthcare.

Read on as your local Gold Coast Dentist shares a few tips on how to conquer your fear of finding yourself inside the dentist’s office.

Talk To Your Dentist About Your Fears

Talking about the things that terrify you helps your dentists determine the proper course of action for you dental procedure. The more relevant information you tell your dentist, the better are his chances of effectively managing and addressing your fears. By talking to your dentist about your fear, you will feel more comfortable while in the dentist chair.

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Understanding The Duchenne Smile

Dental Article, Dental Checkups, General DentistryBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)December 26, 2013 Leave a comment

While smiling is among the most natural facial gestures even for a baby, it is actually quite difficult to slap on a genuine smile on command. If you are having your driver’s ID picture taken, for instance, or if you are just meeting someone for the first time, chances are you will try to flash a fake smile that is either awkward or downright frightening.

The Anatomy Of Smiling

The zygomatic major, the muscle located in between the corner of your mouth and top of your jaw, contracts every time you try to smile on cue.

Smiling on cue by contracting the zygomatic major is rather easy. We do it every time we flash a fake smile. It’s the smile that we use wherever we have our ID photos taken. It’s the smile the salesperson flashes whenever we inquire about these or that product. It’s the smile the waiter nervously every time he gets someone’s wrong order.

The Duchenne Smile

There is a little known research that reports how a warm and earnest smile is easily more visible than a frown. An honest to goodness smile is hard to do without meaning. Technically, an honest smile is referred to as the Duchenne Smile. The Duchenne Smile is named after a 19th century French philosopher who spent his life studying the muscles of the face.

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The Effects Of Tobacco On Oral Health

Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Article, General Dentistry, Oral HealthBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)December 17, 2013 Leave a comment

Regular consumption of cigarettes and other tobacco products have always been notorious for causing severe medical conditions such as heart disease, emphysema, and lung cancer, among others. As the numbers alone have it, smoking kills 1 in every 5 people in the world today.

Smokers are four times more likely to have diminishing oral health status compared to people who have never smoked in their lives, reports the National Center for Health Statistics. NCHS Data Brief No.85 reports that people who are current smokers are more likely to develop a wide range of oral health problems than former or non-smokers. Apart from this, the report also states that smokers are less like to visit their local dentist regularly.

How Smoking Impacts Your Oral Health

Smoking cigarettes and other tobacco products holds a profoundly negative impact on both your dental and periodontal health. This shouldn’t be surprising at all considering that your mouth is essentially the initial point of contact between a lit cigarette and the rest of your body.

The tobacco content of a lit cigarette alone contains over 4,000 chemicals. A good number of these are poisonous chemicals and at least 50 are proven to be cancer-causing ingredients known as carcinogens.

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Restorative Dentistry: Foods To Avoid When Wearing Dental Crowns

Dental Article, Dental Crowns and Bridges, Restorative DentistryBy Dr. Janette Candia (Dentist)November 22, 2013 Leave a comment

Restorative Dentistry creates a dental crown that is specifically designed to restore and improve the normal appearance and function of a damaged tooth.

A dental crown is a durable, form-fitting, and long lasting ceramic sleeve that caps over a decayed, broken, and brittle tooth. Resembling a natural tooth, a dental crown is designed to fit the adjacent tooth while ensuring the correct bite.

Oftentimes, however, it takes your dentist a week or two to create and fit you with a permanent dental crown.

While waiting for your permanent dental crown, Restorative Dentistry will first prepare your tooth for the fitting of a temporary crown. Because a temporary crown is often significantly more fragile than a permanent one, it is imperative that you take extra precautions in caring for it.

In this case, caring for your dental crown largely consists of watching what and how you eat. For starters, you can avoid chewing on hard foods like candies and nuts. You can also cut down on your snacking. Read on as Restorative Dentistry tells you more about this –

Restorative Dentistry Tells You To Avoid Hot Foods And Drinks

Exposing your temporary crown to foods served in high temperatures will probably cause no severe damage. Still, it is still best for you to avoid these foods altogether. Hot foods — such as fresh from the oven pizza, fresh off the grill steak, and hot soup — often result in severe discomfort.

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What Dental Problems Can Veneers Resolve?

How To Keep Your Child From Dental Phobia

Dentist Gold Coast

Dental Implants: The Best Tooth Loss Treatment

The Aesthetic Function Of Your Teeth

Tooth Roots

Dentist Gold Coast: 5 Ways To Get Healthier Teeth

Tips On How To Reduce Mouth Odour

Simple Home Remedies For Dental Pain

Pepper And Salt Paste

Garlic

Tips To Reduce Cheek & Face Swelling Due To Tooth Abscess

Gold Coast Dentist: Tips To Reduce Cheek & Face Swelling Due To Tooth Abscess

Conquering Dentophobia

Talk To Your Dentist About Your Fears

Understanding The Duchenne Smile

The Anatomy Of Smiling

The Duchenne Smile

Dentist Gold Coast

The Effects Of Tobacco On Oral Health

How Smoking Impacts Your Oral Health

Restorative Dentistry: Foods To Avoid When Wearing Dental Crowns

Restorative Dentistry Tells You To Avoid Hot Foods And Drinks

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