First, your mouth is made up of 2 arches : your upper and lower arch. These arches come together to form your bite which allows you to properly eat, drink, and speak! Individuals that are missing many or all their teeth on an arch, may be candidates for a full arch restoration. This procedure utilizes dental implants and screw retained …
Read this if you don’t have a dental emergency plan
A LITTLE BIT OF PREP work makes a huge difference when an emergency happens, including a dental emergency such as an oral injury. What exactly can we do to prepare for something like an unexpected injury? It depends on the specific situation. Broken Tooth If an injury results in a broken, chipped, or cracked tooth, the best thing to do …
An Implant Restoration Could Prevent Bone Loss
An Implant Restoration Could Prevent Bone Loss Like other bones in the body, the jawbone is living tissue with cells that form, grow and eventually wear out. At the end of their life, these older cells give way to new cells. Eating and chewing play an important role in maintaining this growth cycle: the forces we generate as we chew …
Benefits of 3D Cone Beam X-Ray
3D Cone Beam X-Rays are an advancement in the X-ray field that has provided many benefits to the field of dentistry. These benefits include: ● High quality and less expensive imaging that can be done right in the office ● Cone beam technology has reduced radiation exposure compared to normal CT images ● A single scan can provide numerous angles …
6 Things We Would Never Do With Our Teeth
1. Using your teeth for anything else other biting, chewing, smiling, and speaking can result in injury that can be difficult and expensive to repair! 2. Ignore any kind of dental pain or swelling. While dental pain or swelling does sometimes temporarily go away, that doesn’t mean the underlying problem has resolved. 3. Think that bleeding gums are “normal.” Usually …
What causes tooth sensitivity?
A healthy tooth consists of a protective outer layer of enamel over a more porous layer of dentin, with a pulp chamber at the center. Dental pulp is made up of nerves and blood vessels, and those nerves receive sensory input for things like pressure and temperature changes through the thousands of microscopic tubules running through the dentin. When Sensory …
"What our patients are saying about us"
I recently went to Prestige Oral Surgery for a tooth removal and Dr Erakat and his staff went above and beyond for me. Ashley, Olivia and everyone involved throughout the whole process were nothing but professional and friendly and Dr Erakat was extremely precise, efficient and my surgery was quick and painless. Prior to my visit i was in alot …
Q & A with Dr. Mohammed Erakat
Q. I’ve been putting this off for months and months, how easy is it to get a tooth replaced? A. Picking up the phone and calling us is the hardest part. Like anything in life, once you get it started it will pretty much flow smoothly. We start with a consultation and x-rays and come up with a treatment plan …
Dental Implants: Delivering a proven, successful solution
Dental implants are widely recognized to be the most successful method of tooth replacement today. The color, shape and contour of replacement teeth can be adapted to match that of your natural teeth. Maintaining a youthful appearance Significant bone loss can shrink the contours of the jawbone, causing wrinkled lips and a sunken mouth and chin. Dental implants can help …
Oral Health and Overall Health
In our dental office, you’ll find a caring team that will help make your smile a work of art. Before any treatment begins, we will review your treatment plan with you and gain your consent. Recent findings are showing that Periodontal disease affects 75 percent of adults over the age of 35. Left untreated, it is the leading cause of …