Without specialized equipment, a dentist can find it difficult to diagnose conditions and perform certain procedures. An accurate diagnosis is imperative in order to provide the correct treatment. This is the main reason why dentists rely so heavily on regular…
Why Worry About Sleep Apnea?
When you first hear about sleep apnea, you might not think it sounds important. It’s just a bad case of snoring, right? Maybe it’s a problem if you snore hard enough to wake yourself up, but that’s what sleeping pills…
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How Lasers Improve Dentistry
We’ve known for years that lasers can improve eyesight in certain cases. Laser-eye surgery can pass through the iris and burn the back of the retina, changing how it bends and thus improving your eyesight. It’s not a perfect or…
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Digital Dentures Make Fittings Faster
It used to be that if a dentist wanted a good, three-dimensional look at your teeth, you’d have to have two big metal arches filled up with a kind of plaster covering your teeth, you’d wait around five minutes, and…
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Different Needs Get Different Dental Implants
If you know much about dental implants on Long Island and elsewhere, then you can probably picture the basics in your mind: a titanium screw that drills directly into the bone arch where a tooth used to be, a cap…
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What Is Osseointegration?
If you need dental implants on Long Island or wherever you happen to live, you may happen to hear the word “osseointegration” either from your dentist or from the research you might do. It certainly sounds impressive, but how does…
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3D Printing Is Making Dentistry Cheaper And Faster
3D printing is an amazing technology. With just a single device that fits on a bench and a computer, you can manufacture objects that used to need full labs or machine shops to make. And while you may hear about…
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3 Signs Your Dentures Need Repair
Dentures are designed to take a lot of punishment. After all, they have to replace your teeth, the hardest things in the human body, and the reason they’re so tough is that they need to chew every kind of food…
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3 Common Causes Of Bad Breath
A lot of people are self-conscious about how their breath smells. Most of the time, people don’t get close enough to notice, but then the ones who do get close enough are usually the people we care about the most.…
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Why Sedation Dentistry in Long Island May be the Right Choice
Many people are anxious about visiting the dentist, especially when it comes time to have a bigger than normal procedure done. By that, we mean a procedure that is more involved than your typical cleaning twice a year. However, some…
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