Your jaw contains temporomandibular joints just below the front of each ear that helps to connect the lower jaw and skull together. The temporomandibular joints allow you to complete important everyday functions such as chewing your food, speaking, swallowing, and opening and closing your mouth for multiple purposes. These joints can sometimes become painful and [...]
If you’re missing a tooth that isn’t in a spot visible to others, you might decide to forgo getting a replacement. At Southbridge Dental, we highly discourage this for several reasons. Regardless of the location of your missing tooth, it can cause your remaining teeth to shift and affect your alignment. The name of [...]
Tooth enamel is a hard mineral designed to protect the teeth and the rest of the body. Even so, it’s all too easy to break the enamel and chip part or all of a tooth. Common reasons that people chip a tooth include biting into a food too hard or at an unnatural angle or [...]
Knowing how to clean your teeth correctly makes an enormous difference in your long-term oral health. It helps to preserve your natural teeth as you age in addition to giving you a beautiful smile. You might be surprised at the improvement in your oral health when you commit just 10 minutes a day to caring [...]
Adequate and restful sleep is essential to your well-being. Unfortunately, several things can prevent you from getting as much sleep at night as you should. There’s the typical culprits of stress, sick children, insomnia, and your own illness that can prevent you from getting several hours of quality, uninterrupted sleep. It could also be due [...]
The good news about dental implants is that most people who want to get them to replace missing natural teeth can do so. However, some patients have a weak foundation near the spot of the future implant that can require a procedure known as a bone graft before installing the dental implants. Numerous conditions can cause a [...]