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Screw or Cement: Which is Best for Attaching Your Implant Crown? - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC If you’re in the initial planning stages for a dental implant, you may already be encountering a number of options to consider. One that may come up is how the visible crown will attach to the metal implant imbedded in the bone. Generally speaking, implants are composed of two parts: a metal

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Temporary Smiles for Teens Waiting on Dental Implants - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC Here's some good news: Teenagers are less likely than adults to lose teeth to dental disease. But there's also a flip side. Teens can still lose teeth, more likely from traumatic injury.Fortunately, there are several options for replacing lost teeth like dentures or bridges. But the choice considere

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Take These Immediate Actions to Save a Knocked-Out Tooth - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC Accidents do happen, especially if you or a family member has an active lifestyle. One such risk, especially for someone playing a contact sport, is having a tooth knocked out.But as extreme as this injury can be, it doesn't necessarily mean the tooth is lost forever. Gum (or periodontal) cells rema

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Why Kathy Bates Chose This Alternative to Braces and so Might You - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC Kathy Bates has been a familiar face to filmgoers since her Oscar-winning performance as Annie Wilkes in Misery. She's best known for playing true-to-life characters like Wilkes or Barbara Jewell in last year's Richard Jewell (for which she earned her fourth Oscar nomination). To keep it real, she t

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Dental Implants Could Help Preserve Bone After Tooth Loss - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC Losing teeth can make it more difficult to eat, not to mention the effect it can have on your smile. But that could be just the beginning of your problems. Missing teeth can contribute to extensive bone loss within your jaws and face. Here's why.Bone is like any other living tissue—cells devel

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Stay Ahead of Decay-Spreading Root Cavities - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC Finding out you have a cavity isn't the best of news. But finding out it's a root cavity is even worse: if not treated, the decay can spread more rapidly than a cavity occurring in the tooth's crown surfaces.Our teeth are basically composed of two parts: the crown, the visible tooth above the gum li

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3 Dental Problems That Could Be Causing Excessive Dental Wear - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC If you do the right things—keep your teeth clean, see the dentist regularly, and eat a "tooth-friendly" diet—you stand a good chance of having healthy teeth and gums later in life. Even so, after eating well over 75,000 meals by age 70, you can expect some wear from all that biting and c

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Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen: A Celebrity Couple's Secrets for a Beautiful Smile - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC Love at first sight—it's an endearing notion found in movies and novels, but perhaps we're a little skeptical about it happening in real life. Then again, maybe it does once in a blue moon. According to supermodel Gisele Bündchen, something definitely happened the first time she met pro

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The 21st Century Promises Better Dental Diagnostics with Cone Beam Imaging - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC X-rays revolutionized dental care in the 20th Century. The same could happen in the 21st Century as cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) becomes a fixture beside the traditional x-ray machine. CBCT made its debut in dental offices about a decade and a half ago. It utilizes the same invisible energy

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A Better Version of a Denture or Bridge With Dental Implants - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC A wise sage once said the largest room in the world is the "room for improvement." Indeed, many modern advances would never have happened if someone hadn't first asked, "How can I make this better?"Dentures and bridges are a case in point. Both of these tooth replacement methods have a long, success

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Veneers Could 'Turn Back the Clock' on Your Smile - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC There's a lot to like about porcelain veneers, especially as you get older. For one, they can be less expensive and invasive than other cosmetic restorations. More importantly, though, they're versatile—they can solve a variety of dental appearance problems.Veneers are thin shells of porcelain

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Kevin Bacon's Mango-Slicing Trick and Other Ways to Rid Food Between Your Teeth - Anne E. Siegrist, DDS SC During the COVID-19 quarantines, stir-crazy celebrities have been creating some “unique” home videos—like Madonna singing about fried fish to the tune of “Vogue” in her bathroom or Cardi B busting through a human-sized Jenga tower. But an entertaining Instagram video fr