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Soda, soft drink, pop: whatever your term for this carbonated beverage, it is important for you to know the negative side effects consumption can have on your dental health. Whether you drink regular or diet soda, your dentist can explain what may occur with your dentition.

When replacing a permanent tooth that has been lost or extracted, patients have many options. Of all of the choices, though, dental implants offer Tulsa patients a host of advantages over the alternatives. Dental implants are more stable, durable, functional and aesthetically pleasing than other methods like bridges and dentures.

Full Mouth Rehabilitation is used to correct a severely worn dentition. Usually, that’s caused by age, or it’s caused by clenching and grinding, or it could be caused by acid erosion as well. The teeth will appear short and worn down, even the back teeth.

Sleep Apnea, also called Obstructive Sleep Apnea, is a serious medical condition. What happens is the soft tissues in the throat, or the tongue, will close off the airway causing lack of oxygen to the brain and to the heart. The most obvious symptoms probably are restless sleep, snoring, waking up feeling like you’re just gasping for air. It’s been known to cause heart attack, increased blood pressure, or fatigue during the day. Studies have shown that there’s an increase in automobile accidents, there’s also an increase in work accidents because people just can’t focus on their day-to-day activities.

Veneers are a very thin porcelain shell that are used to correct minor crowding, discoloration, some chipping, cracking, primarily on front teeth. It’s a very conservative restoration in that there’s not a lot of preparation required to place these.

Zoom Whitening is an amazing whitening process. It’s an in office process that requires about an hour to an hour and a half to complete. The results are really great on that. We usually will see several shades of change in that hour to hour and a half. The process involves patient coming in. We isolate the teeth and we put a special solution on the teeth and then we use a special light to activate that solution and change the shape. And again, we see several shades of change with this.