Richland Dental Blog

Dental crowns are tooth-shaped caps that are placed over damaged, decayed, or otherwise compromised teeth. They can reinforce a tooth’s existing structure, restore its natural appearance, and give it the chance to remain a healthy part of a person’s smile. However, many patients have concerns about the lifespan of their dental crown. Nothing can compare to your natural teeth, but dental crowns can still have impressive lifespans if they’re cared for properly. Continue reading to learn more!

Countless dental patients have achieved brighter grins with customized teeth whitening treatments from their dentists. Unlike store-bought whitening solutions, professional treatments use personalized dental trays and concentrated whitening agents to achieve remarkable results in brief timeframes. However, some patients will need more whitening sessions to achieve their desired results than others. Here’s a brief guide to how many treatments may be necessary to brighten your smile.

If you’d like whiter and brighter teeth, you’re certainly not the only one! Plenty of people want the Hollywood smile a teeth whitening treatment can offer. However, if you jump into the process “guns blazing,” you could end up harming your dental enamel – and experiencing some serious pain. Keep reading, and you’ll see why cavity treatment should always come before teeth whitening.

To end 2024 on a high note, perhaps you plan to get dental implants. It’d certainly be a great idea – you could start the new year with a restored smile! Still, you may want to know whether dental insurance will cover dental implants before you commit to anything. Confirming the potential coverage will help you decide whether to move forward. That said, read on to learn how dental insurance relates to dental implant treatment.

Dentures are a lift-changing tooth replacement option. If you have suffered from significant tooth loss, they can give you back your ability to chew your food, speak clearly, and smile with confidence again. However, you may be wondering if regular dental visits are still necessary if you wear full dentures. The truth is that routine checkups are important for a number of different reasons, even if you don’t have any natural teeth. Continue reading to why you should still keep up with regular dental visits.

Dentures are an excellent, affordable way to restore the appearance and function of your smile. Even people with the most extreme cases of tooth loss can get their smiles back. However, while many denture wearers find that their top denture feels secure and comfortable, their bottom one doesn’t feel the same way. There are several reasons why this can occur. Read on to learn about the most common as well as some tips to help.

Having your wisdom teeth removed is somewhat of a rite of passage for many young adults. Thankfully, it’s become so commonplace that your dentist now has many years of experience and wisdom to help make your procedure and healing process go a lot smoother.

Once you head home from your extraction, your healing process begins, and part of that process includes some important but temporary dietary changes. Here’s what you should (and shouldn’t) be eating while you recover from wisdom tooth removal.

Wisdom teeth are admittedly a little bit weird. They’re adult teeth, but they don’t come in for years after your other permanent teeth do, and they frequently need to be removed when they do. Stranger still, not everyone even gets them. So, how common are they, and why do you even get them in the first place? Here’s some interesting information about these fascinating extra molars!

When it comes to dental insurance, it can sometimes be confusing to know exactly what your policy covers. This is frustrating enough on a regular day, but when there’s an emergency it can be downright scary. Thankfully, you don’t have to wait for a problem to familiarize yourself with your coverage. Not only will it give you peace of mind, but it will also alert you to any changes you may want to make to your plan.

Though individual policies will vary, if you’re concerned about what your dental insurance will cover in an emergency, here’s a general primer on what you can expect yours to pay.

When patients come to their dentist for a dental emergency, they’re sometimes a little bit worried that they’re going to be judged for their oral health. This is virtually never the case—the average dentist is mostly focused on restoring you to perfect oral health.

Moreover, the truth is that whatever problem you’re dealing with, it’s probably far from the most bizarre thing they’ve seen. If that sounds hard to believe, here are some of the strangest dental emergencies of all time.