Dentistry at Hickory Flats Blog

While our goal at Dentistry at Hickory Flat is to help you maintain your teeth for a lifetime, sometimes achieving optimum oral health requires a tooth to be removed. There are different situations that might require an extraction and your dentist in Canton can help determine when you might need one.

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Straight, well-aligned teeth are vital for proper oral functions, like eating and speaking. Not to mention, properly aligned teeth are easier to clean, promoting dental health. Often, parents tend to believe that children do not require orthodontic care until they have lost all their baby teeth. However, this is not true. In fact, it is recommended children see their dentist in Canton around the age of 6 or 7 to have their first orthodontic consultation. With early care, you can reduce the need for invasive and lengthy treatments in the future.
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The majority of the population has gum disease and you just found out you’re one of them. Great. Now what? Your dentist in Canton uses FDA-approved LANAP to treat advanced cases of gum disease. That’s right, our innovative dentists have moved onto bigger and better things than scaling and root planing. If you have gum disease, you may have some questions about our laser gum therapy and how it can truly make saving your teeth and gums easier, quicker, and safer than ever before.

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At Dentistry at Hickory Flat, your professional team takes great pride in delivering many preventive, restorative and cosmetic dental treatments–basically whatever you need for a healthy, strong smile. Two featured services are root canal therapy, to preserve infected, severely decayed or injured teeth, and the dental implant, today’s superior tooth replacement option that acts just like a real tooth. Your dentist in Canton, Dr. Brian Lee or Dr. Katherine Lee,  is well-qualified to perform both treatments. Here are the details on these marvelous procedures.

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You broke a filling while enjoying a handful of macadamia nuts last week. You know you need to visit the dentist to get this taken care of, but let’s be honest – getting the filling a few years back was unpleasant, at best. Since then, you cringe when you think of being in the chair and shudder when you recall the sound of the drill. Luckily for you, the team at Dentistry at Hickory Flat team has advanced training on oral conscious sedation to treat common dental anxiety. Don’t let your fears prevent you from getting the treatment you need from your dentist in Canton.

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Moments like these are why you’re happy to be a grandparent: your grand-kids are rough-housing at your feet as you relax in your favorite chair. There’s a touch of sadness, however, because you wish you could join in the fun, but can’t. Your dentures have become very loose over the years, and it’s hard enough to keep them in place while you are simply talking or eating. The last thing you want is for them to fly out of your mouth and traumatize your grandchildren. There has to be a set of dentures that doesn’t limit you so much, but how would they even work? The key, actually, is dental implants in Canton. They can give you a set of dentures that fit better and last longer, making your life so much simpler.   (more…)

Nearly 70% of the US population is missing at least one tooth, most commonly one of the back teeth. It might be easy to ignore this because it doesn’t impact your appearance as much as missing front tooth, but it could lead to a host of problems. Once a tooth has gone missing, the body naturally cuts off blood to the area, causing it to atrophy, which can then lead to more teeth falling out! How can you prevent this? The best way to replace your tooth and stop bone loss is with dental implants in Canton from Dr. Brian and Dr. Katherine Lee. (more…)