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How Can Dental Implants Help My Smile?

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Dental implants are a permanent solution for treating your tooth loss. In fact, they are actually the next best thing to real teeth. While dentures and dental bridges aren’t designed to last your whole life, implants potentially could. These small metal posts or screws are surgically placed into the jawbone where, over time, the bone will heal around the implant making it a permanent structure within the jawbone. This fusion ensures that the implant won’t go anywhere and it certainly won’t move or shift around like full dentures often can. Dental implants can replace your teeth and restore your Dental Implants smile to what it once was. But how do these revolutionary, state-of-the-art dental restorations work? How can they benefit you? Find out the answers to these questions and more with Dr. Ali Shatergholi at Cosmetic & Family Dentistry in Bowie, MD. They preserve the health of your jawbone Tooth loss also leads to jawbone loss. By placing the implant into the jawbone...

What the best and worst foods are for healthy, strong teeth ?

So many patients are always asking us what the best and worst foods are for healthy, strong teeth. Unfortunately, it is true that if you eat predominantly “bad” foods, the chances of developing a cavity are greatly increased.    In order to distinguish between good and bad foods for the teeth, it is important to know how cavities form.    The steps to forming a cavity are as follows: 1.        First you need a thin, sticky film of bacteria to form on the tooth surfaces.   This film is called plaque.   Plaque accumulates if someone does not practice good oral hygiene techniques (i.e. regular brushing and flossing). 2.        The plaque then needs to come into contact with sugars and starches to produce acids that can attack our teeth for 20 minutes or more after we finish eating.   Continuous attacks can result in tooth structure breakdown and ultimately result in cavities. N...

Flowers to Decrease Dental Anxiety

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At Superior Cosmetic & Family Dentistry , we strive to make your visit to the dentist a serene escape. Some may ask how a dental visit could possibly be a relaxing experience and we have one simple answer: flowers. It has been proven by numerous studies that flowers reduce anxiety, negativity, and depression and even improve memory loss. But wait, there is more: flowers produce positive moods within women, men, children and elderly people alike! At our office, we have done our best to reduce dental anxiety by placing live beautiful orchids around the office to create a beautiful, tropical, “home away from home” atmosphere! Website Link :- http://www.superior-dentistry.com