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Everything you did (and maybe didn’t) want to know about dentistry.

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.

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Early orthodontic treatment can begin when a child is as young as seven years old, coming in many treatment options like early forms of braces, skeletal anchorage devices and aligners. The goal of early orthodontic treatment is to improve, prevent...

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One of the more commonly-known oral surgery procedures is wisdom tooth extraction. hird molars, or wisdom teeth, are the final teeth to grow, and will usually emerge by thetime the patient is between the ages of 18 to 24. Some...

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Dr. Wong has gum disease. There, I said it. While it may sound ludicrous that a dentist may have gum disease, a better understanding of the disease will quickly make it plausible. And while dentistry has reached a pretty high...

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News flash: Effective immediately, Dr. Elston Wong Dentistry will be donating all profits from take-home tooth whitening to RVH, or more accurately, RVRHC (Royal Victoria Hospital is no more, now to be known as The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre.)...

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You want keywords? We’ll give you keywords! Family dentist! General dentist! Barrie Dentist! But what does it all mean? Let’s have some clarification here, as some is certainly warranted. When someone goes to a dentist, that person is referring to...

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Awesomely cheesy 80’s Listerine commercials aside, this post begins our foray into gum issues. Up till now, our blog posts have largely centered on teeth – for instance, issues such as tooth decay, root canals, fillings, and dental crowns. In...

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