 | Gary's dentist tells him he has
soft teeth, and he wonders what to do about
it. |
| Alyssa is getting
white spots on her teeth around her braces,
which are now turning brown, and she is freaking out. Dr. Hall tells her how these can be fixed. |
| A web visitor from New York notices that, now that he
has braces, bad breath is more of a
problem. |
| A question many people have is about chewing gum:
Is chewing gum good for your teeth? |
| Kathi in North Carolina relates a frustrating
experience in trying to get a correct diagnosis as far as what is
continuing to cause her
pain after a root
canal treatment. She's ready to have the teeth in question extracted. |
| What is a dental
flipper? How long does it last? Is this a good way to replace a
missing tooth? |
| How can you get
vampire teeth? I've heard about people getting them but don't know
how it's done. |
| Lucie asks, if a
molar is broken at the gumline,
does it have to be extracted? |
| Jeanette asks why her twelve-year-old daughter
has so many problems with
tooth decay when she brushes regularly, just like her other
children. |
| Peter in Massachusetts noticed pieces of
something breaking off from the inside of his lower front teeth. He
wonders if he is losing enamel, or if this is
tartar. |
| My dentist has a new light that he says helps
tell if you have oral cancer. It's called a
Vizilite. What can you tell me about that? |
| My tooth was sensitive. Now that my dentist did
a filling, she says I need a root
canal. Does it need a
root canal treatment? |
| My dentist says I have a
dead tooth and he wants
to put a crown on it. If it's dead, why should I crown it? |
| I have a dull
pain in my jaw around my
upper molar tooth. I've been to my dentist, to an endodontist, and to an
ENT specialist and no one can figure out what's causing it. What can I
do? |
| My husband had a wisdom tooth pulled yesterday,
and the oral surgeon said that part of it broke off, and he left the
piece of broken tooth
in the jaw. Will this hurt anything? |
| A piece of my porcelain
crown chipped
while I was eating Doritos? Should I worry about this? |
| Will
Tooth Mousse get rid
of the white spots on my teeth? |
| I went to have a front tooth fixed because a
corner broke off, and the dentist put a
pin in my tooth to help fix it. Do you think this will work? |
| My dentist says that I have
leaky fillings?
What does that mean? |
