Region Dental Care Blog

Red wine is a staple on many holiday tables. If you enjoy a glass or two during seasonal gatherings, it can leave a lasting mark on your dental health. Although red wine offers some health benefits, it can affect your tooth enamel. If you’ve ever spilled red wine on a shirt or rug, you know it is almost impossible to remove the stain. You don’t have to stick with water to safeguard your smile from discoloration. Here’s how to protect your pearly whites when drinking wine.

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The end of the year is fast approaching—as fast as it seems like it may have gone, 2023 will soon be over, and 2024 is knocking on the door. If you have dental insurance, that means that you only have a few more months to make use of your coverage before it resets.

It’s estimated that people leave over 100 billion dollars’ worth of insurance coverage on the table every year. If you want to get all the coverage you’re paying for, here are a few tips to help you do that.

Everyone likes a clean, white smile, but teeth can stain for a variety of reasons. Food and drink choices, oral hygiene, and medication can cause discoloration on or beneath the surface of a tooth, and different stains may respond more favorably to different treatments. Here’s what you need to know about the different types of tooth stains and what your dentist can do to remove them.

Your smile should be something you can feel confident about, but some people deal with stubborn dental discoloration, leading some of them to spend a great deal of effort hiding their teeth. While discoloration can result from things like smoking, poor oral hygiene, or frequently drinking coffee, colas, or red wine, it can also be caused by genetic factors. Here are some hereditary reasons that one’s teeth might be not quite white and what cosmetic dentistry can do to whiten them.

Over time, you’ve likely attended many dentist visits. That’s only natural – you should get dental checkups and cleanings twice a year! Still, perhaps you don’t know the basics of cosmetic dentistry. Maybe your smile hasn’t needed aesthetic work before now. Even so, learning about this particular dental field isn’t hard. Your local La Porte dentist can happily give you the scoop. To that end, here’s a summary of cosmetic dentistry and some of the treatments it contains.

Are you embarrassed by stained, chipped, or gapped teeth? You’re not alone. You can’t put a price on the benefits of a beautiful smile, but few people have one naturally. Cosmetic dentistry can turn the smile of your dreams into reality, but there are many myths about elective services. Don’t let them stand in the way of achieving a picture-perfect smile. Here are the facts you need behind the most common cosmetic dentistry rumors.

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Maybe you want cosmetic dental work to prepare your smile for vacation. That makes sense – your dentist could make your grin gorgeous! Even so, there’s a good chance you’d like to avoid an invasive procedure. Luckily, there’s an option that meets both desires: non-invasive cosmetic dentistry. This field has easy services with amazing effects. To prove it, your La Porte dentist has the evidence. Read on, then, to learn about non-invasive cosmetic dentistry and a few of its treatments.

If you’re getting up in years, you might be “aging out” of various activities. Perhaps you can’t run as fast, or you can’t drive yourself anymore. That said, the same doesn’t apply to visits with your cosmetic dentist. There’s no age limit for these appointments. As such, you’ll never be too old for cosmetic dental work. To prove it, your local practice can show you some evidence. Here’s a summary of why cosmetic dentistry is for all ages and three senior-friendly smile procedures.

Your dentures probably make you feel pretty good, allowing you to eat and talk as if you weren’t missing any teeth at all. In fact, they may make you feel so good that you never want to take them off!

Maybe that’s why so many people make the mistake of never removing their dentures. Unfortunately, this can cause a few unpleasant issues. Here’s when you ought to take off your dentures, and why removing them is important.

Do you tend to get anxious when it’s time for your dental visit? Or maybe you just feel uncomfortable sitting in the exam chair? These are all things that can be helped with a form of sedation dentistry called nitrous oxide. But you may have wondered, “Will it put me to sleep or make me unconscious?”. Here’s what to know about nitrous oxide!