Your Santa Maria dentist can help with your regular dental maintenance and with dental emergencies, from check-ups to fillings to root canals and dental implants. Visit your Santa Maria dentist regularly for good dental health.
Six Month Cleanings at Your Santa Maria Dentist
Schedule an appointment with your Santa Maria dentist for your routine six-month cleaning. During that visit, the Santa Maria dentist will examine your teeth and mouth visually and may order x-rays if a tooth appears to be problematic or if your teeth have not been x-rayed in some time.
The hygienist will remove the tartar build-up from your teeth and particularly your gum line, an activity that will help build healthy gums and teeth. The hygienist or dentist may measure the “pockets” in your teeth to check how much your gums are receding or how inflamed they are. This measurement is partly how they always know how much you have been flossing.
At the appointment with the hygienist, it is your ideal time to talk about your brushing and flossing routine. The Santa Maria hygienist can help you develop a better routine for flossing and brushing and can answer your questions about devices such as water picks and electric tooth brushes.
Fillings at Your Santa Maria Dentist
It happens to everyone at one point or another. A tooth becomes decayed and the decayed portion needs to be removed and replaced with a filling. The filling helps keep the decay from spreading through the tooth so that the tooth will stay stronger longer. In some cases the decayed area is large and the tooth will need a crown, but a filling is far more common. Depending on the placement of the filling, the filling material itself may appear metallic or may match your tooth color.
Crowns and Root Canals and Your Santa Maria Dentist
A tooth may lose enough of its top structure to fillings that, over time, it weakens and needs to be replaced with a crown. The crown replaces the top portion of the tooth that appears above the gum line. The crown the look and feel of a regular tooth. On occasion, the root of the tooth itself may become unhealthy and may need a root canal. In this case, the top of the tooth is replaced by a crown as well.
Root canal work can be fairly extensive. If you are concerned about being able to sit in a dental chair for three hours or so and particularly if you have anxiety when it comes to dental work, you may ask your Santa Maria dentist for sedation dentist options, particularly prescription medication that may help you relax and make it through the procedure.
Dental Implants and Your Santa Maria Dentist
Dental implants are the modern answer to partial plates and dentures. When your lose a tooth entirely, you have the option of a dental implant which is a device fastened into your jaw bone. It has the look and feel of a regular tooth and is permanently fastened, unlike a denture or partial. These devices cost more initially but they are far easier to care for and have better performance than a denture or partial plate.
Cosmetic Santa Maria Dentist
You may be interested in whitening your teeth more than you can with some of the products available at your local store in Santa Maria. Talk to your dentist about teeth whitening options.
Call Your Santa Maria Dentist Today
For the regular maintenance of your dental health, call your Santa Maria dentist today.
