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EVERYTHING ABOUT AIRFLOW TEETH CLEANING

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  Most people know the feeling, your seating in the dental chair, bib fastened, mouth wide open, attempting to not consider the amount of eye contact you're making with the overhead light. And then someone says, "We'll begin with a scale and polish." You nod as that sounds normal.   For most patients, Airflow teeth cleaning will fit into the same category of thought as the scale and polish procedure. Sounds technical. Sounds optional. Sounds like a treatment dentists would suggest simply because it exists. That's not entirely correct. Airflow Tooth Polishing is one of those treatments that has subtly altered how professional cleaning can be felt. Not loudly. Not more aggressively. Quite the opposite. Once you've had it performed correctly, the older scrape-rinse-repeat method will appear to be a somewhat... primitive technique. Until I saw patients reacting to it in person, I didn't completely understand this. The pause afterward. Testing the teeth ...

How Composite Veneers Transform Your Smile

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  People generally think of composite veneers as an easier route. A budget-friendly alternative. A "fix-it" option. That misconception usually stems from the word composite, which seems scientific, possibly temporary, and/or may seem too casual. However, composite veneers work because they're located at the nexus of three disciplines: materials engineering, dentistry, and judgment. Not machines. Not factories. Human hands, eyes, and patience, along with a number of quiet judgments made in the dentist's chair that rarely make it into "before-and-after" photographs. If you have ever asked what are composite veneers , how they are actually created on teeth, and why the results appear to be drastically different among clinics, then this is your honest account. No marketing spin. No outrageous promises. Just how they operate. What is a composite veneer (and what it isn't)? A composite veneer is a single layer of tooth-coloured resin that is molded...