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.
Patient: How much to have this tooth pulled?Dentist: $200.Patient: $200 for just a few minutes of work?Dentist: I can extract it very slowly, if you like.General dentistry in Barrie, Ontario has no excuse not to be excellent – there is...
Great! You got dental insurance! Now your dental dreams can be realized! Little do people know, but dental insurance can often be someone’s worst enemy in the pursuit of oral health. Explain how, you implore: how could the prospect of...
Need a Barrie emergency dentist? See this post on dental emergencies. Not a weekend goes by where we do not get a call to our emergency dentist number (705.733.0880) asking for help with a toothache or some other oral pain....
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),...
Despite what we know about dental decay, how it starts, how it progresses and how it can be treated, the most important aspect is still its prevention. Once dental decay, or caries, progresses beyond a certain point, the tooth structure...
While many of us have had dental fillings, we seldom get to see them being done. Many a parent has commented about not knowing what work actually goes into placing a filling, until they watch his/her child having it done!...
