Helping people with missing or damaged teeth is part of my general practice. So from the simple fillings, which are also cosmetic fillings, only composites, we don’t use any silver amalgams in my practice, through the bridges, through the crowns, veneers, finishing in the implants that we can restore, and we are very fortunate to work with very good specialists. Some of them come to our office to service our patients.
We can help them. There is also different types of the restoration, like dentures, anything that patient needs, and they’ll make their lifestyle to change and make their smile prettier and healthy. It’s important because your mouth is a gate to your overall health.
And we very often don’t realize that what we eat, that’s what we are. But what we eat, you have to chew as well. And you definitely have to have teeth to chew that food with.
So if you don’t have teeth, everything goes down, right? We don’t chew very well. We sometimes have problems with the stomach, with our overall feeling, sometimes with our joints or other parts of the body. And we don’t realize that it might come because I don’t have enough teeth to chew.
So coming back to the treatment plan, we try to educate patients that having teeth to chew with goes a long way. Then we try to see also what they eat. If there is too much sugar, maybe in their diet, not enough vitamin, you can go through all that process, taking patients out of the pain of some kind of an infection they maybe didn’t even know it exists.
It’s definitely our goal. Because any infection in your mouth can cause something that patients don’t know, like a diabetes, like a rheumatoid arthritis. Alzheimer’s is right now linked to your gum disease problem.
So it’s very important for patients. It’s not just the teeth, they are a separate entity. Hopefully not putting that in the glass of water, with water.
But we want to have them very healthy, chew with and be comfortable. And especially in the social environment. You want to go for the dinner and don’t worry that you cannot chew everything, you can have that steak.
And we are there to help you do it.
