You’ve likely heard of most dental restoration options. Dental crowns, bridges, dentures, and even dental implants are fairly well known. However, two conservative solutions that many patients have never heard of are inlays and onlays. These restorative dentistry solutions allow us to maximize existing dental structures and keep smiles whole and healthy. Inlays and onlays offer patients a middle ground between fillings to repair very small areas and dental crowns to repair the whole tooth.
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If you’ve found a dental team you can trust, you know how important that partnership is to make you feel relaxed during your appointment and confident in treatment recommendations. Your dentist likely feels the same about their relationship with the
Do you snore? Your family would know if you do. Unfortunately, snoring can be more than just an bothersome noise. It adversely affects your systemic health if it is a symptom of sleep apnea.
Restorations such as fillings and crowns can deteriorate and dislodge. West Monroe dentist, L. King Scott, tells what to do when you lose dental work.
Research shows people notice a beautiful smile above all other physical features. Warm, approachable and bright–that’s how people describe an individual with dazzling teeth and gums.
The opening and closing of your jaw probably isn’t something you think about very often (or at all), but it’s a pretty complex thing! The action is all centered around the temporomandibular joint, or the TMJ. When everything is right with the TMJ, you can chew, speak, smile and sing along in the car whenever the mood strikes. But when something’s wrong with either of the joints, you feel it — and pain, headaches and difficulty moving the jaw are soon to follow. Fortunately,
Anyone who has had to live with an ill-fitting denture will tell you that it’s highly uncomfortable, not to mention stressful. Will it slip out when you’re not expecting? Will you be able to eat a meal without your denture moving around? It’s a common problem, but one that’s eliminated when your denture or other tooth replacement is secured by dental implants in West Monroe LA. In fact, dental implants are by far the best option for restoring your missing teeth;
I want you to do something for me right now: picture the scariest thing you’re capable of imagining. Is it a monster? Looking off the ledge of a 20-story building? Or maybe… the dentist? It won’t hurt my feelings — I don’t particularly like sharp objects near my mouth, either. But if your dental anxiety is getting in the way of your oral health, that’s a bad cycle. And it’s one that needs to stop, today. Keep reading to learn more about how to control your fear of dental work from your
Dr. L. King Scott and his team understand that your days are long and busy. Between work and school, family and friends, there hardly seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done. And by the end of the day, all you want is your comfy bed and soft pillow. There is, however, one more important thing you have to do before your go to bed. Your nightly oral hygiene routine is critically important not only to your oral health, but your general health, too. And that routine must include flossing. Brushing your teeth alone does not remove the plaque that can build up between your teeth throughout the day. Proper flossing helps to remove this plaque, which if left to accumulate can lead to gum disease and systemic ailments.
Your smile is important to Dr. King Scott and his staff. That’s why we provide just about any procedure you or anyone in your family needs in our comfortable yet technologically advanced office. You’ll find a comprehensive menu of