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Dental Implants: Their Structure And What’s Involved
Dental Implants: Their Structure And What’s Involved

Restorative Dentistry

Dental Implants: Their Structure And What’s Involved

About Dental Implants Dental implants are the strongest and most permanent solution for missing or failing teeth. When you choose to enhance your smile with dental implants, it's a life-changing event! We often take our teeth for granted, and you never really appreciate all they do until they begin to cause trouble. For speaking, eating, chewing, enjoying the food we love, even the way we feel about our appearance, it's clear that teeth are vitally important. Dental implants may seem like a complicated process. [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2021-10-19T08:00:49-07:00October 19, 2021|Restorative Dentistry|

Crown and Bridge Treatment
Crown and Bridge Treatment

Restorative Dentistry

Crown and Bridge Treatment

Maintaining the integrity of your mouth Teeth are tough. Formed from the hardest substances in the body, they're harder even than bone. But they're not indestructible. Throughout life teeth are subject to injury—maybe it will be a blow from a hockey puck in your twenties. Or a luckless chomp on an unseen popcorn kernel in your thirties. Or a molar that's had one too many fillings in your forties. Whatever the scenario, at some point most of us will need repair for a weakened [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2018-04-24T08:00:21-07:00April 24, 2018|Restorative Dentistry|

Gone Missing
Gone Missing

Restorative Dentistry

Gone Missing

Lose a tooth? We can help you choose the right replacement option. CROWN & BRIDGE is a collective phrase for several methods of restoring teeth. When a tooth has been damaged but is healthy enough to save, we place a crown that covers it and binds it together for strength. Crowns can be fashioned from gold or alloys, porcelain, or a combination of materials. A bridge can span a single missing tooth, or many. Conventional bridges usually involve crowns at both ends with a [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2016-12-27T00:00:30-08:00December 27, 2016|Restorative Dentistry|

Impression Material
Impression Material

Patient Education

Impression Material

What is that goo? Whether you need a new denture, braces, or a single inlay restoration, you'll encounter the "goo" dentists use to make an impression - the first step to a perfect likeness of your mouth. In effect, the material you bite into registers a "negative" image, like a photograph. To make a positive model, a plaster-like "stone" is poured into the impression and allowed to set. And there you are. Impression material, to work properly, must reproduce oral structures accurately, and be [...]

By Diamond Dental of Sacramento|2016-12-06T00:00:52-08:00December 6, 2016|Patient Education|

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