What can you eat with dentures is usually asked with a certain amount of apprehension, often by someone imagining a lifetime of soup. The reassuring answer is that most denture wearers end up enjoying a wide and varied diet. It takes a few weeks and a little...
Does root canal treatment hurt is the question I am asked more than any other, usually with real apprehension behind it. The honest answer is no. Root canal treatment is carried out under thorough local anaesthetic, and most patients describe it afterwards as feeling...
Night-time grinding is remarkably common and almost entirely invisible to the person doing it. That is the difficulty: the signs you grind your teeth at night are things you notice indirectly, or things somebody else spots first. Here is what to look for, and why it...
You have had a filling, everything went smoothly, and now the tooth twinges at cold drinks or when you bite. A tooth sensitive after a filling is extremely common, almost always temporary, and rarely a sign that anything has gone wrong. Here is what is happening, how...
Patients who have watched their teeth get shorter over the years often assume the damage is permanent and the only options are drastic. So the short answer is worth giving up front: yes, worn teeth can be rebuilt, usually more simply than people expect, and often...
