Our office takes great pride in the preventative services that we offer through our regular recall appointments.  In general, most patients benefit from dental scaling (cleaning your teeth) twice a year.  This is the most predictable way to reduce the chance that you will have progression of receding gums and gum disease.  Some patients with moderate recession, aggressive oral bacteria and/or difficult areas to clean on their own return to the office three or four times each year for scaling. If you have any specific questions about your own oral health and recession status, please ask one of our hygienists or dentists at your next check up.

This is a broad term used to describe an issue involving the teeth and supporting tissues that is of high importance to be fixed or treated by a dentist.  Most true dental emergencies involve a toothache or other pain in the mouth or jaw joints (TMJ).  Pain can originate from the tooth, surrounding tissues or can have the sensation of originating in the teeth but be caused by an independent source (sometimes sinuses). Depending on the type of pain experienced we can determine the likely cause and can treat the issue appropriately.

Root canal treatment, also known as endodontic treatment, is the process of removing infected, injured or dead nerve from your tooth. The space inside the hard layers of each tooth is called the root canal system. This system is filled with soft dental pulp made up of nerves and blood vessels that help your tooth grow and develop. When the nerve of your tooth becomes infected, a successful root canal treatment lets you keep the tooth rather than having to pull it out. Keeping your tooth helps to prevent your other teeth from drifting out of line and causing jaw problems. Saving a natural tooth avoids having to replace it with an artificial tooth.  Root canal therapy does have a bad reputation, but is a successful procedure, especially when the treated tooth has a crown placed afterward to protect the tooth from breaking.