Archive for February, 2008

Continuing my theme of addressing common misconceptions in dentistry, this week I’m going to talk about bleeding gums aka ‘gingivitis’: what causes it, how to prevent it and what happens if it gets ignored…..
One of the most common questions a dentist gets asked is ‘Doc, my gums are bleeding, am I brushing them too hard?’ [...]

10 years ago or so a little known procedure called ‘dental bleaching’ came over here from the US where it was already in regular usage. (Of course).
Basically, carbamide peroxide (or sometimes hydrogen peroxide) in a gel form was squirted into plastic ‘trays’ which were then fitted over the patient’s teeth and worn over night. After [...]

The field of dental implantology is in its youth. The first implants were put in only 25 or so years ago – and many of them are still giving good service to this day.
But being a relatively new treatment (compared to say, fillings which have been around since the turn of the century) implant treatment [...]