When you’ve lost a tooth from your smile, it’s hard to hide it. But that’s often what you want to do. Smiling with a gap in your smile can easily be embarrassing.
By calling our Winnipeg, MB dental office today at 204-977-8515, you can get that missing tooth replaced with a dental bridge. This restorative dentistry treatment uses a dental crown as a natural-looking but durable replacement tooth. Our Winnipeg dentists are very well trained and experienced in dental bridge procedures, so they can help go from being embarrassed about your smile to feeling proud about it.
What starts out as a small, hairline cracks can eventually grow big enough to threaten your tooth. Plus, harmful bacteria can slip through a crack and infect the inside of your tooth. Ignoring these problems is often a bad idea.
That’s why you should call our Winnipeg, MB dental office today at 204-977-8515 and schedule an appointment to get a dental crown. These restorative dentistry treatments can do more than just seal up cracked teeth. They can strengthen teeth worn down by teeth grinding, replace missing teeth in dental bridges and dental implants, and more.
Are you tired of seeing that empty gap in your smile? Missing a tooth can be embarrassing, but it can also hurt your dental health. Without that tooth, your other teeth can slide out of alignment. Your jawbone will also start to weaken.
Call our Winnipeg, MB dental office today at 204-977-8515 for an appointment to get a dental implant. This restorative dentistry treatment uses a natural-looking replacement tooth and an artificial tooth root. After getting a dental implant procedure, your smile will look better and let you chew with confidence.
Technically, a gap between your teeth or some dark stuff near the gumline is small. Compared to your body, all your teeth are small. But smiles are important to us. It’s how we communicate. That’s why these “small” problems can look very big in your smile.
Call our Winnipeg dentists today at 204-977-8515 to schedule your next appointment. Cosmetic dentistry and restorative dentistry can help with those small problems. As you can see below, the change is definitely not small.
Car accidents are traumatic events, and they can hurt an otherwise great smile. That’s when you need to call our Winnipeg, MB dental office at 204-977-8515 for a restorative dentistry appointment. From dental crowns to root canals, you can restore your smile.
Talk about “root canals” with someone, and you’re probably not going to see them light up with joy. A root canal is a serious dental restoration, but it’s one that can relieve toothaches caused by bacterial infections inside a tooth.
That’s why you need to call Lakewood Dental Centre today at 204-977-8515 if you are having tooth pain. Dr. McDermid and Dr. Dhillon can use digital X-rays to help determine if that pain is being caused by an infection. This is very important because you might need to have that tooth removed if the infection gets too bad.
What Is A Root Canal?
Your mouth is home to harmful bacteria. When they are found on your gums, they can lead to gum disease. Find them on your teeth, and you could be facing cavities. But what happens if they get inside a tooth?
Inside your tooth is dental pulp, home to the nerve endings and blood vessels for that tooth. Bacteria infecting your dental pulp often creates a toothache. It might come and go, or it might be constant, but it hurts. This infection also begins to turn your enamel brittle. If the infection is never removed, you will likely lose the tooth.
That’s where a root canal can help. In this restorative dentistry treatment, Dr. McDermid or Dr. Dhillon will normally follow these steps:
- The area is numbed using a local anesthetic.
- A small opening is made in the enamel to reach the dental pulp.
- The infected dental pulp is gently removed.
- The space left over is filled with an inert material.
- A dental crown is placed over the tooth to seal it and make sure it’s stronger.
What Are The Signs You Might Need A Root Canal?
Since the infection lies below your enamel, it’s not something you can immediately see. Then how do you know if you need a root canal? A digital X-ray is normally used to see the infected dental pulp, but here are some signs to look out for.
- Tooth pain when you chew.
- Tooth pain when enjoying hot or cold foods.
- A toothache that comes and goes.
- Swollen or tender gums around one tooth in particular.
- A discolored tooth (that’s not due to stains like the rest of your teeth).
If you are experiencing any of these problems, call us today at 204-977-8515 and schedule an appointment.
Tips For Not Needing A Root Canal
Root canals do a very important thing. By removing that infection, they can stop whatever pain it was causing. It can also save the tooth. However, not needing a root canal is probably a good call. Here are some ways you can lower your risk of needing a root canal.
– Brush and floss regularly.
The bacteria behind these tooth infections (and cavities, and gum disease) survive by eating tiny particles of food trapped on your teeth and gums. That’s why regular brushing and flossing is so important to your dental health — they can get rid of some food particles to help control those harmful bacteria.
– Get a dental crown if you have a cracked tooth.
If you had an accident or sports injury, you might have cracked your tooth. Sometimes, these don’t hurt. You might be tempted to ignore it and just get on with your life. However, that’s a bad idea. Any such crack can create an opening to your dental pulp. This makes it easier for bacteria to get inside that tooth and infect it.
Instead, you can get a dental crown. This cap looks like a real tooth. It seals up the visible part of the tooth, making it incredibly difficult for bacteria to slip through any crack on that part.
– Repair any cavities as soon as possible.
One way bacteria reach your dental pulp is when a cavity is ignored for too long. Tooth decay keeps growing until those bacteria are removed. Eventually, it can grow deep enough to break through to the dental pulp, allowing those bacteria to infect it. That’s why it’s so important to repair cavities with dental fillings and dental crowns as soon as you can.
– Visit a dentist regularly for dental exams.
Call our Winnipeg dental office today at 204-977-8515 or use our online form to schedule your next dental exam. A cavity can’t be repaired until you know it’s there, and that’s what a dental exam can uncover. And if you are having any tooth pain, call us and explain what’s going on. Dr. Dhillon and Dr. McDermid are here to help you.
Dental crowns are a staple within restorative dentistry. They can be used to repair, restore, and replace teeth.
The materials used to make modern dental crowns provide the added benefit of being quite similar to natural teeth in appearance. Dental crowns also are able to function much like real teeth so you can continue to eat the foods that you like to eat.
Dental crowns are one of the many services we offer at our dentist office in Winnipeg, MB. If you would like to learn more about dental crowns, we welcome you to make an appointment at Lakewood Dental Centre by calling 204-977-8515 or by contacting us online.
We look forward to helping you however we can.
4 Ways That Dental Crowns Are Used
Below you will find an explanation of various ways that dental crowns can be used. Primarily, dental crowns are used for restorative dentistry, but they can have some cosmetic benefits as well.
◼︎ Repairing Broken, Chipped, Or Worn Down Teeth
It’s not unusual for something to happen to one or more of your teeth over the course of your life.
You could bite into something like a popcorn kernel or a piece of hard candy that causes a bit of your tooth to chip off. You could injure yourself in a hockey game or fall while making repairs around the house and break one of your teeth.
It’s also possible for a tooth or teeth to become worn down over time.
These are all situations when a dental crown may be the best option to restore your tooth to its original shape and size.
The first step is reshaping the tooth by removing the parts that have been damaged. This creates a support for your dental crown. When the crown is bonded in place, your “tooth” could look as good as it ever did.
◼︎ Fixing A Tooth With A Cavity
Tooth decay is a common problem for a good reason. The bacteria that cause tooth decay are already inside our mouths. They just need an opportunity to start eating into a tooth to create a cavity.
Ideally, you would visit the dentist for routine cleanings and examinations. This makes it more likely that we will spot the cavity in the early stages when it can be treated with a dental filling.
However, if the cavity grows too large, then a dental crown may be a better option for saving and repairing the tooth. The process is similar to what we described above. The tooth will be reshaped. The dental crown will be bonded in place to restore the appearance of your smile and the function of your tooth.
◼︎ Completing Root Canal Therapy
Root canal therapy is an effective way to save an infected tooth. This kind of infection can develop from untreated tooth decay, gum disease, or injuries that expose the inside of the tooth to bacteria.
If the pulp at the middle of your teeth becomes infected, that can be painful. Root canal therapy is the means by which we can remove the infected tissue from your tooth.
To do this, your dentist will create an opening in the tooth. He or she will remove the pulp along with the nerves and blood vessels in the tooth. Then it will be filled and sealed. In some cases, a dental filling is enough to seal the tooth. In other cases, a dental crown is a better option to restore the appearance and function of the tooth.
◼︎ Replacing A Lost Tooth
From a cosmetic standpoint, losing a tooth can affect your smile. In the short-term, you may have a visible gap between your teeth. In the long-term, your teeth could “drift,” which can affect both the appearance of your smile and how well you can bite or chew food.
Replacing the missing tooth is a good way to bring back your smile and to protect the natural teeth that you still have. One way to do this is by placing a dental crown on a dental implant.
Dental implants are replacements for the roots of your missing teeth. These implants can be placed into your jawbone to provide support for your dental crown. When the crown is attached to the implant, you will have a full replacement for the missing, lost, or extracted tooth.
Do You Have Questions About Dental Crowns?
If so, then we welcome you to contact our dentists in Winnipeg, MB. You can make an appointment by calling 204-977-8515, or you can contact us with our online form.