Toothbrush smoothbrush. What’s the big deal? So, you use this little item to scrub your teeth a couple times each day. How important can stuff like how long to keep a toothbrush be? Very important. So, your friends at Gentle Dental are going to give you a little class called Toothbrush 101. Taking care of […]
Root canals either make people think of a barge being towed up the Erie Canal, or the term makes them run away as fast as possible. But what do you actually know about root canals? We like our patients to be educated at Gentle Dental, so here we go. What is a root canal? While […]
If a person is missing a few consecutive teeth, at Gentle Dental we usually replace them in three ways. We can place a number of dental implants, one implant for each missing tooth. But, while this is the best solution to replace missing teeth, it can be expensive. We can place a permanent bridge if […]
Everyone has pain in the jaw at some time in his or her life. It may be the result of contact in a touch football or basketball game, some relatively extensive work on the jaw at the dentist, due to tightened braces, or it could be caused by damage or infection in a tooth. But […]