Peri-implantitis is a condition that can affect patients with dental implants, causing complications. Getting dental implants doesn’t mean you will develop peri-implantitis – it’s an avoidable and easily treatable condition, providing you take the necessary steps to care for your dental implants and have good dental hygiene routines in general....
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Diabetes is a serious health condition, where your blood glucose level is too high. It can occur if the body doesn’t produce enough insulin, if the insulin it produces isn’t effective, or if the body can’t produce any insulin at all. Diabetes is a complex condition that can cause a...
Your smile is the first thing that people see and people often take pride in their appearance and smile. Therefore, bone loss in teeth can have a huge impact on your self-esteem, speech, and self-confidence. But the good news is that there are a variety of treatments available that can...
Endodontically treated teeth are teeth that have been treated for problems involving the inside of the tooth, known as the tooth pulp. The tooth pulp contains the vital blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue, which can become inflamed or infected as a result of tooth decay, injury or significant dental...
Your smile is one of the first things people notice about you and, if you’re not totally happy with it, it can severely knock your confidence. The most common smile issues we encounter are concerns about bite, particularly overbites. The vast majority of people have an overbite of some description....
Your teeth have to withstand a lot of wear and tear on a daily basis. Tooth enamel protects the outer layer of your teeth from damage, providing a defence against the chemical and physical damage they are exposed to each and every day. But, although it is the hardest material...
Your smile is your most important asset. Smiling not only boosts confidence and helps you to communicate with others, it also has been shown to help reduce your blood pressure and lower your risk of heart disease. Unfortunately, many people lose confidence in their smile as a result of the...
No dental work, including dental implants, is completely permanent. They can last for many years if looked after well and maintained by both the patient and their dentist. However, just like with your teeth, if your home dental care and oral hygiene is not kept at a high level and...
Protruding teeth are one of the most visible dental complaints, affecting many patients with an overbite or angled tooth line. The good news is that protruding teeth can often be treated relatively easily, depending on what has caused the protrusion in the first place. In this blog, we’ll look at...
Bruxism is the word given to the action of ‘parafunctional’ (i.e. outside of normal function e.g. eating and chewing) grinding or clenching your teeth. It can be brought on when you are stressed or anxious but is often an unconscious action and often patients do it while sleeping. While not...
If you have crooked teeth or even unsightly gaps in your teeth, you may well assume that nothing can be done to sort things out – particularly if you have had them since childhood and you assumed that as you got older, any hope of rectifying them was not feasible....
An infection, or more to the point, an infection affecting your teeth and gums, can be characterised by a bacterial infection at the centre of the tooth or between the gums and tooth that produces pus and discharge. The pus from a mouth infection is mainly constituted of live bacteria...
Having sensitive teeth is something that many, many people in the UK suffer from and it seems that of those people, not many realise what causes it. You can use ‘special’ toothpastes to try and eradicate the problem, but usually it’s important to understand the more serious, underlying reasons that...
Back to basics Here at Advanced Dentistry we spend a great deal of time helping people with various issues with their teeth. This can include things like discoloured teeth, crooked teeth, resolving gaps in teeth and a whole host of other complicated (and not so complicated) treatments. However, across the...
In today’s blog, Advanced Dentistry starts a two-part blog series that hopefully answers some of the most common questions asked where it comes to caring for your teeth and looking after your oral health, while hopefully debunking a few myths in the process. Do come back next week for part-two!...