Posts Tagged ‘extractions’

Immediate dental implant techniques

Just recently we’ve had an unusual number of patients coming in with serious problems with single front teeth. Perhaps it’s something in the Essex water!

Among the causes of these problems are

sports injuries (eg getting kicked in the face playing rugby)
‘other’ injuries (eg falling down the stairs or sliding on the ice)
old crowns that have [...]

Why we don’t take teeth out unless we have to (orthodontics)

Crooked teeth need space!
If you were lucky enough to grow up with a perfect set of straight teeth it means that they had just the right amount of space in your mouth, right from the start. We’re not all so fortunate these days though.

Our ancestors usually had bigger mouths than we have, and so crooked [...]