We believe in providing our health-conscious patients with superior, customized dental care that enables people to smile confidently, chew comfortably, and maintain whole-body health. We also believe in creating an atmosphere for learning, so our patients are well informed and ideally understand how to dental problems before they become serious issues (or problems at all for that matter).
Here are articles that we feel are of dental interest for our patients and non-patients alike! Read these articles to learn our own dental perspective.
We all have habits that we do on a daily basis. Maybe it’s a cup of coffee in the morning or picking our nails when we feel anxious. Some habits are benign, but others can cause active damage to your...
“My dentist told me I grind my teeth” is a common phrase overheard with the subtext “but I don’t think I do”. So why are you wearing night guards? If you know that you are a tooth grinder, and you...
Serious Barrie dentistry: collaborative dentistry, or “what do my teeth have to do with my heart?” In North America, dental decay was such a problem in earlier times that dental research and development was given its own avenue for growth....
Once in a while, we (OK, just Dr. Wong) goes overboard and wants to document the heck out of a case. So, in pure voyeuristic interest, the following photos depict a step-by-step viewing of a root canal procedure done in...
In a previous post, we gave you an overall idea of our approach to a complete oral exam, and how it is conceptually broken down into four diagnostic categories: dental (teeth only), periodontal (gums), functional (TMJ/jaw joints and the bite),...
We’ve written about the dental diagnosis, which identifies the threats to the individual teeth themselves (as opposed to threats to the gums, bite and joints, or to the appearance of the smile). One of the major risks to teeth is...
