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.
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...
For many people in Barrie, a dental filling or crown may be the only artificial body part they have. When a tooth can no longer be saved, whether caused by trauma, decay, or gum disease, it must be extracted. But...
Most of the general public in Barrie recognizes the word gingivitis, and thanks to some Listerine commercials in the 80’s, consider it a problem to be feared. We’ve written about gingivitis before, and in its most common form, it’s not...
