Colour Fillings

Colour Fillings

Choosing the Right Filling for Your Tooth Your dentist can repair a cavity with more than one material. They differ in colour, in how long they last, and in how much healthy tooth they need removed. The best choice depends on which tooth needs the repair and how big...
Colour Fillings

Dental Bridge

What Is a Dental Bridge? A dental bridge replaces a missing tooth with a false one. The teeth on either side of the gap hold it in place. A bridge is fixed, not removable. It stays in your mouth the way a natural tooth does, and you clean it where it sits. The false...
Implants

Implants

What Is a Dental Implant? A dental implant is a small titanium post placed into the jawbone where a tooth used to be. It takes the place of the tooth root. Once the bone has healed around the post, your dentist fits a crown on top. The result is a replacement tooth...
Dental Extraction

Dental Extraction

When a Tooth Cannot Be Saved Removing a tooth is the last option, not the first. Your dentist will try to repair it before recommending extraction. A tooth is removed when keeping it would cause more harm than losing it. That decision is made on the x-ray and the...
Dental Extraction

Wisdom Tooth Removal

Why Wisdom Teeth Cause Trouble Wisdom teeth are the last four molars to arrive, usually between seventeen and twenty-five. They come through when the jaw is already full. Not every wisdom tooth needs removing. If yours came through straight and you can clean them,...
Tooth Lengthening

Tooth Lengthening

What Is Tooth Lengthening? Tooth lengthening reshapes the gum, and sometimes a little bone, to expose more of the tooth underneath. It is also called crown lengthening. Nothing is added to the tooth and nothing is filed off it. The tooth was always that size. The gum...