Your dental care involves more than visits to the dentist’s office, and maintaining a beautiful, healthy smile requires consistent effort on your part at home. Still, regular dental care, and sometimes, cosmetic or restorative services, is necessary to the long-term integrity of your teeth, gums, and oral tissues. To help make receiving dental treatment easier… Read more »
Category: Advanced Dentistry
Diagnose Cavities Early with DIAGNOdent
Are you a fan of finding out you have a cavity and require a filling? No? Neither is anyone else. Perhaps you have wished in the past that there was a magical way to detect cavities right as they begin to form, so you can quickly receive treatment, quickly stopping the effects of tooth decay. While… Read more »
Understanding Different Types of Dental Surgery
The vast majority of dental procedures our dentists perform, including cosmetic and restorative dentistry, can be completed in a single office visit and do not require any kind of surgery. Even so, it is good to know that we do offer advanced dentistry should the need arise. The dentists at Downey Family Dentistry discuss common… Read more »
How Even Is Your Bite?
As an adult, your smile generally consists of 32 teeth distributed evenly between your top and bottom arc. When you bite down, your teeth should match up, meaning each upper-arc tooth has a correlating partner in the lower-arc. With an even bite, you can enjoy meals or engage in conversation without discomfort. Regrettably, an uneven… Read more »
