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Dental anxiety is a common concern for many patients, making even routine checkups feel stressful. Dentists recognize this issue and implement various strategies to help patients feel at ease. While sedation dentistry is often used to reduce anxiety, a more subtle yet effective approach is incorporating art into the dental office. Read on to learn how art is used to make dental visits more pleasant!

Some surprises in life are fun and exciting like a birthday party, but others can be distressing and unpleasant like an unexpected bill. Before you dive into a certain treatment or buy a product, it’s wise to do your own research and find out what you need to know: both positive and negative. Likewise, if you are interested in getting veneers in Winthrop, you should know a few things in advance!

Here are facts you need to consider while making your decision so that you’re not surprised in a bad way later.

You’ve taken the plunge—you got veneers, and you love them! You don’t regret your investment at all, especially when you look in the mirror, but you may worry about getting the most out of your treatment. Although veneers generally last a long time, you don’t want to cut the ride short and feel like you didn’t maximize them. So how can you take full advantage of your veneers and make them last? Follow these three simple tips.

Plastic surgery and other cosmetic treatments often come with significant risks. Before you elect to undergo any procedure, you need to be aware of these risks and weigh the benefits to decide what’s best for you. Safety first, right?

Well, when it comes to cosmetic dentistry, you can have a little more peace of mind. While not every procedure is ultimately right for each patient, you can enter your consultation with confidence that you will be kept safe. Below you’ll find four reasons why you should put your safety fears to rest.

Summer—it’s the perfect time for splashing in the pool with the kids, enjoying an ice-cold drink, and traveling to a new place. You may not initially think so, but summer is also the perfect time for starting the process of getting dental implants. Why should you consider beginning this treatment during the summer months if you need to replace teeth? Check out these four reasons!

Although you had metal braces years ago as a teen, you can still recall how cumbersome flossing was with those brackets and wires. You had to maneuver awkwardly around them to get bits of food out after every meal.

Now, as an adult, you are considering Invisalign, but you worry about having to fit in oral hygiene into your routine and how inconvenient flossing will become during treatment. Well, you can put those worries to rest—flossing with Invisalign is easy! Here’s how flossing works on Invisalign.

During a dental checkup, you may think that your dentist is only concerned about your mouth. While this area of the body is their specialty, they are also interested in other factors of your health that could impact your smile.

In some cases, your dentist will bring up these issues during the checkup, but if they don’t, you should definitely let your dentist know so that they can help you enjoy a healthier, happier smile.

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, at-home testing for conditions or diseases was limited to only a few. However, since then, researchers have found better ways to use saliva to test for common issues, including gingivitis.

But why is this breakthrough for gum disease so important? First, you need to understand more about the infection and what at-home gingivitis testing can do for you and your smile.

You never plan for a dental emergency to happen. It mostly comes up seemingly out of the blue, but it can stop you in your tracks with severe pain and impaired oral function. However, even if the pain is excruciating, some patients hesitate to make an emergency appointment with their dentist simply because they don’t know what to expect.

To put your anxiety to rest, here is how dental emergencies go when you work with your dentist.

In your younger days, you couldn’t wait to have your braces taken off. You counted down the days until you were done with brackets and wires, but now your dentist tells you that you may need braces again to achieve the straight smile you want!

What could have led to this? How did this happen? Here are a few possible scenarios.