Dental Fluoride: Savior or Poison?
Savior or poison? The answer is both! Living through 25+ years of treating patients with fluoride, I have heard it all. A large majority of my patient do not give having fluoride a second thought. It is simply something you need to have to maintain a healthy dentition. However, there is a small minority of...
Salivary Gland Stone: Sialolith
One of the most common salivary gland stones is the submandibular gland’s duct sialolith. This is a case study of a recent patient who came in with such a stone. This 24 year old white female presented to Cape Dental Care with an ulcer behind her front lower teeth. She was 2 month postpartum and...
Immediate Implants: Growing Back Your Teeth?
A deeply distraught patient shows up to their dental office with a broken tooth. The x-ray reveals a tooth broken off at below the gun line. During the examination the dentist confirms what is shown in the x-ray; the tooth cannot be saved. With a heavy heart the dentist turns to the patient and tells...
Nitrous Oxide Sedation
If you had a toothache 1000 or 2000 years ago, what did someone do to have the pain removed? Needless to say it was pretty brutal and most dental pain was tolerated as a way of life all the way until the seventieth century and the development of nitrous oxide gas. Before that, alcohol and opiates were...
Scaling and Root Planning
Scaling and root planing removes the hardened bacteria from around your teeth that you cannot clean off during everyday oral hygiene helping to prevent gum disease.
Dental Insurance: Is Not Really Insurance: Insurance Tricks of the Trade
Insurance? What is dental insurance? It certainly isn’t insurance. It would be better described as an allowance. An allowance that is really your money paid back to you by very stingy parents. You would be much better off putting the money you spend on dental insurance into a savings account than giving it to an...
Painless Shots!
“Nothing personal doc, but I hate dentists.” “When I was a child, I had a dentist that hurt me so bad I never got over it.” “I’d rather have a baby than get dental work.” “I have a really high pain tolerance for everything but dental work.” “Can you just put me out, I really...
