Can You Wear Invisalign if You Have Dental Crowns? Are you an adult who is thinking about straightening your teeth with Invisalign? Invisalign, a treatment we offer here at Bunker Hill Dentistry, is a great option for most adults because it’s nearly invisible and it straightens crooked and improperly spaced teeth. It can also correct certain types of over, under and crossbites. However, adults… Read More
Living with Invisalign – How to Care for Your Aligners Invisalign is an amazing system for achieving straight teeth more quickly, more comfortably, and much more discreetly than wearing braces. Invisalign treatment is one of our most popular services here at Bunker Hill Dentistry. Following these guidelines throughout the treatment process and beyond will ensure that this amazing process produces equally amazing results. Key… Read More
Who Is a Candidate for All on 4 Dental Implants All on 4 is a relatively new way to replace entire arches of missing teeth with dentures. This teeth replacement treatment involves installing 4 implants in the upper or lower jaw, or both, and affixing a denture to those implants. The denture is a full set of false teeth that can either be permanent or… Read More
How Long Should You Expect Dental Bonding to Last? Your dentist may suggest tooth bonding as a cost-effective and quick solution to repair some types of damage or to improve the appearance of your smile. Bonding means that your dentist will apply a composite resin to cover the damage or imperfection and match the shade of your teeth. Typically, you will only need one… Read More
Invisalign – How the Procedure Works Invisalign is the hugely popular way to straighten your teeth and treat gaps, overbites, underbites, and more. The process involves a series of aligners or “trays” that each moves teeth anywhere from .1mm to .25mm before being swapped out for a new one. Unlike braces, Invisalign aligners are removable, comfortable, and virtually unnoticeable. So that’s… Read More
Post-Treatment Aftercare with Veneers One of the fastest and easiest ways to improve your smile is by getting veneers – wafer thin shells, typically made of porcelain or composite resin – affixed to the front of your teeth. Veneers can be used to make the teeth appear whiter and fix minor imperfections, like covering stains and hiding small chips,… Read More
How to Fix a Tooth That’s Broken in Half? Even though enamel, a mineral form of calcium phosphate, scores 5 on the Mohs hardness scale—harder than steel—it is also brittle, comparable to glass. As a result, chips, fractures, cracks, and significant breaks, like a tooth broken in half, are not uncommon. If severe enough, broken and chipped teeth can cause severe pain and/or cause… Read More
What Causes a Gummy Smile? Have you ever looked at a picture of yourself and thought your gum tissue was out of proportion to your smile? If so, you may be suffering from what’s known as excessive gingival display, or more commonly, gummy smile. The good news is, the situation is treatable. You can have the movie-star smile you’re looking… Read More
Cosmetic Dentistry vs Orthodontics – Similarities & Differences Cosmetic dentistry is the type of dental care you need when you wish to improve the way your smile looks. Orthodontics, on the other hand, is a specialized type of dental care focused on improving the position of teeth and the jaw to overcome an improper bite. While the two types of dental care share… Read More
Stem Cell Therapy in Dentistry Stem cell research has exploded in the last 20 years, so it should come as no surprise that a major segment of medicine, such as dentistry, would have its fair share of researchers attempting to make new scientific breakthroughs. Those breakthroughs are, by all accounts, at least several years away from your local dentist’s office,… Read More
