Glendale, AZ 85308
As a general dentist who performs specialty dental procedures, I work hard to improve my skills to provide the best care to my patients. When I see something a specialist does differently than me, I try to incorporate that into my own practice. Recently, I have seen more conservative accesses, a.k.a. “ninja access,” from local …
You wake up with the worst pain in your life. You’re not sure which tooth hurts, but it feels like your mouth stumbled into a bear trap over night. The pain is relentless, and you can’t think about anything else. If that describes your pain, then unfortunately, you probably need a root canal. I’ve been …
There are many specialties within the field of dentistry. An endodontist specializes in treating the tissues inside of the tooth. When you normally think of a tooth you probably don’t think about the nerves and blood vessels inside. But, your teeth are living tissues, just like any other part of your body. When your teeth …
The following case was an interesting and fairly difficult root canal procedure from a week ago. I normally see maybe one or two of these cases each week, but it has been almost a month since the last one. My patient was a 67-year old male with no remarkable health conditions. He was experiencing vague …
As a dentist, few things are more unnerving than an emergency patient with a missing front tooth or crown. A few weeks ago we had a new patient emergency visit. She had lost the crown on a lateral incisor, one of the small teeth right next to the two front teeth. To make matters worse, …