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7 Tips for a Holiday-Ready Smile

If you’re heading out to see people this holiday, you want to look your best, and having great-looking teeth can make a huge difference, allowing you to show off your smile with confidence. Here’s how we can help.

Dec 10th, 2025

How to Handle a Dental Emergency During the Holidays

Holidays bring great food and lots of friends and family, but if you’re not careful, it can also mean dealing with a dental emergency. Read on to find out how to deal with an emergency during the festivities.

Dec 9th, 2025

Beyond Bad Breath and Stained Teeth: Why Smoking Is So Bad for Your Oral Health

Smoking gets targeted as being a terrible habit for lung health, but the damage it does is far more widespread, even affecting dental health. Let’s look at what smoking does to your mouth and what we can do about it.

Nov 10th, 2025

4 Ways Diabetes Can Affect Your Oral Health (and How We Can Help)

The damage diabetes does spreads to almost every part of your body, and while there are many places we expect to feel its effects, we often overlook the teeth. Let’s review what diabetes can do to your dental health.

Nov 6th, 2025

Botox® Therapy for TMJ Tension and Pain: What to Expect

Protecting your dental health also means maintaining the health of your jaws. Conditions like temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder can be painful and frustrating. Botox® therapy can help manage this problem, and here’s what to expect.

Oct 14th, 2025

Orthodontic Retention: The Key to Preserving Your New Invisalign® Smile for Life

Invisalign® straightens teeth to improve your smile, but once the process is finished, retainers are essential to keeping it that way. Read on to understand why they’re necessary and how you use them.

Oct 10th, 2025

Yes, Daily Flossing Really Is that Important: Here's Why (and How to Do it Properly)

We’re all told to take care of our teeth, and at home that means brushing every day. But flossing is equally important, and not doing it can damage teeth and raise the risk of cavities. Let’s look at why you should floss and how to do it right.

Sep 26th, 2025

Will I Need a Crown After My Root Canal?

People often dread and avoid root canals, but they’re an essential way to preserve dental health. After you’ve had this done on one or multiple teeth, when will you need to get a dental crown? Read on to find out.

Sep 17th, 2025

What to Expect When Getting Started with Invisalign®

Misaligned teeth can lead to minor issues with self-confidence, sharing your smile, or significant problems with eating and speaking correctly. Invisalign® can help correct these problems. Here’s what to expect from your first time using the system.

Aug 14th, 2025

Laser Gum Treatment for Periodontal Disease: All Gain, No Pain

Your gums are essential to your dental health, but periodontal disease can cause problems for your gums, teeth, jaws, and other parts of your body. Discover how laser gum treatment can benefit you.

Aug 6th, 2025

5 Smile Benefits of Lumineers®

Enamel keeps teeth safe, but when it wears down or becomes damaged, dental veneers are a standard solution to improve your smile. But you can achieve quicker results with several other benefits when you choose Lumineers®.

Jul 9th, 2025

5 Practical Ways to Improve Your Oral Hygiene

Dental health changes for many reasons, but you can prevent major problems with simple changes in your daily routine. Read on to learn simple, practical tips that can help you preserve your teeth and gums.

Jul 1st, 2025

What to Do About Your Loose or Missing Dental Crown

Dental crowns are a standard tool in protecting and repairing teeth, but if something causes them to loosen or fall out, you should see your dentist promptly. Read on to find out how to deal with damaged or missing crowns.

Jun 2nd, 2025

How Long Does Invisalign® Treatment Take?

Misaligned teeth, also known as malocclusions, can make speech, eating, and other basic functions of the mouth more difficult. Invisalign® is a popular solution for treating this problem, but how long does it take to see results?

Jun 1st, 2025

How a Root Canal Can Save Your Tooth

Good dental hygiene is important to protect teeth from damage and loss. When problems happen, teeth require repair or restoration, and root canals are an essential dental tool that can help. Here, we cover how this procedure saves your tooth.

May 2nd, 2025

What to Expect After Professional Teeth Whitening

Being self-conscious about your teeth is perfectly normal. Professional teeth whitening is available to help you feel better about showing them to the world. But once the treatment is done, you should know how to keep them white as well.

May 2nd, 2025

Why You Shouldn't Ignore Recurrent Jaw Pain

When jaw pain is a recurring issue for you, it may be a sign of an underlying condition, such as a temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder. Discover why you should visit your doctor promptly and how they can help.

Apr 2nd, 2025

What Causes Teeth to Crowd?

Like people in an overcrowded subway, teeth in a crowded mouth overlap and vie for position, shifting into unattractive positions. Regardless of what’s behind the crowding in your mouth, it’s correctable with Invisalign®.

Mar 2nd, 2025

Why Good Dental Hygiene Helps Prevent Serious Health Conditions

Do you know that the state of your teeth and gums mirrors your overall health? Good dental hygiene not only keeps your mouth healthy, it helps ward off serious medical conditions. Find out more here.

Mar 2nd, 2025

4 Health Benefits of a Dental Crown

Dental crowns not only make your smile more aesthetically pleasing, but they also help maintain your oral health by keeping unwanted bacteria away from an at-risk tooth. Read on to discover how we restore both your tooth and health with a crown.

Feb 13th, 2025

I've Cracked My Tooth: Now What?

You’re enjoying your lunch, when suddenly you hear an unwanted noise or feel something that’s not right in your mouth: You’ve cracked a tooth and don’t know what to do. First, relax. Next, contact our dental team to learn how we can help.

Feb 11th, 2025

How to Keep Teeth Grinding From Turning Into TMJ

If you have jaw pain, things you take for granted, from chewing to talking, can quickly grind to a halt. Discover whether certain habits, such as grinding your teeth, could be leading you toward developing a TMJ disorder and what to do for help.

Jan 17th, 2025

Why You Shouldn’t Delay a Recommended Root Canal

A deep, persistent toothache is a clear sign that you may be in need of a root canal. Learn how we can help repair a damaged tooth, and why, once your dentist recommends a root canal, waiting is never your best option.

Jan 16th, 2025

Why Invisalign Has Such a High Satisfaction Rate

Invisalign® is a popular choice for teens and adults who want to enjoy straighter teeth, more beautiful smiles, and better oral health. Here’s why this state-of-the-art orthodontic system makes patients so happy.

Dec 30th, 2024

How Are Lumineers® Better Than Regular Veneers?

If you’re looking to transform a ho-hum smile into a dazzling one, Lumineers® are a great option to turn dull, imperfect teeth into a beautiful set of pearly whites. Uncover the difference between Lumineers and regular veneers here.

Dec 30th, 2024