Category: Gum Disease

Benefits Of An Excellent Preventive Routine

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While restorative dental procedures make maintaining a lifelong smile much more feasible today, preventive dentistry is still the name of the game when it comes to prioritizing your oral health. Indeed, a well-rounded preventive care routine oversees a number of areas to ensure that your smile remains healthy, strong, and protected on multiple fronts. Though… Read more »

Ways You Can Avoid Periodontal Disease

With today’s advanced technology, a number of cosmetic concerns be easily addressed with the use of whitening, bonding and contouring, and porcelain veneers. The same can be said about other types of concerns, but the number one way to prevent decay and infection from threatening your teeth is to stay on top of a regular… Read more »

When You’re Most At-Risk for Gum Disease

Gum disease is one of the most frequently diagnosed oral health issues, and for people who allow it to become severe, it’s also one of the biggest risks for tooth loss. However, not having gum disease doesn’t mean you won’t lose a tooth, and having it doesn’t necessarily mean you will. At our Overland Park,… Read more »

Why Managing Your Gum Disease Matters

For most of your life, taking good care of your oral health means preventing chronic concerns that could affect it. Gum disease is one of the most common of these concerns, and if it does develop, it can feel like you lost the battle to preserve your smile. However, the good news is that you… Read more »

3 Ways to Increase Your Risks of Gum Disease

How you care for your smile every day plays a big role in the long-term state of your oral health. For example, the most common dental health conditions – tooth decay and gum disease – are also the easiest to prevent, but it takes consistently good hygiene every day and preventive care from your dentist…. Read more »

What To Do? When Chewing Hurts!

As you likely know on instinct but may also want to hear, definitively, from our Overland Park, KS dental team: Chewing shouldn’t hurt! So, when it does, your number one priority becomes answering the question, “What should I do?” Is something terribly wrong? Should you be able to fix the problem at home through your… Read more »

Finding The Time For Dental Hygiene!

So, you feel like you don’t have time for dental hygiene. Or, you feel like it’s always somehow a burden, in the way, or something you have to force yourself to do. However, when you really think about it, you realize it takes almost no time at all to brush and floss. What’s the problem,… Read more »

Why Bother to Brush? Some Easy Answers!

If you have spent much time around teens, as we have in our Overland, KS family dental practice, you know you hear a lot of “Why” questions. It’s great to have curious minds, and experts recommend that teenagers see their dentists at least twice a year, just as adults would. They can get thorough exams… Read more »

Smile-Related Reasons to Quit Smoking

You know, of course, that it’s a good idea to quit smoking any type of tobacco product because it’s not good for you. However, what you may not know quite as much about is the fact that in addition to causing other dangerous, unpleasant, and even life-threatening problems, tobacco can result in equally risky smile-related… Read more »

What Swelling Might Be Telling You

While the tissues in your smile cannot actually talk to you, sometimes the changes that affect them are speaking loud and clear! It’s just a matter of being able to decode the details. Today, our Overland Park, KS team talks about what the swelling in your mouth may be telling you. In short, it’s always… Read more »