Missing Teeth and the Dental Implant

Dr. Sherri Worth and her colleagues have created the “Center for Reconstructive Dentistry” which deals with all aspects of preventive, aesthetic and implant dentistry.  The team of professionals includes specialists in implant, periodontics, and prosthodontics.  Many people have lost teeth and not only have aesthetic concerns about their smile but need implants to replace missing teeth.  These implants can be beautiful and long lasting.  The team that has been assembled allows the patients to be treated by some of the best in their fields while being in one center.  Dr. Fereidoun Daftary, Prosthodontist and past chairman of the Prosthodontic post graduate program at the USC School of Dentistry is a master of occlusion and has a brilliant eye for aesthetics and function.  Dr. Ramin Mahallati is also a Prosthodontist who teaches prosthodontics at USC.  Dr. Oded Bahat, Periodontist and Implant surgeon is the past chairman of the post graduate Periodontal Surgery Department at the USC School of Dentistry.  The Endodontic (root canal treatment) specialist is Dr. Amhed Fahid, who is the current vice-chairmain of the Endodontic Department at the UCLA School of Dentistry; Dr. John Buoncristiani, who is currently teaching in the Endodontic Department at UCLA.

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Tooth Brushes for Africa

Toothbrushes are a hard to come by for kids in Tanzania, Africa.  Dr. Worth and staff gave 300 toothbrushes to the kids.
A very belated thank you for the three hundred toothbrushes which you so generously donated for the children in Tanzania.  Our outreach in Tanzania includes Mbahe Primary School, Huruma Hospital, and Light in Africa orphanage.  Your toothbrushes were distributed in ALL three places.  Attached are just a few pictures that show the happy children.  Asante sana for the toothbrushes—they were so desperately needed.

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New Years Smiles–Bright and Beautiful

Porcelain veneers are still the rage.  We are always working hard right before Christmas to get those last few smiles brightened up with porcelain veneers.  The New Year is a time when everyone looks at themselves and wants a little “makeover.”  Porcelain veneers can be a great non-invasive long-term solution to making your smile beautiful.  For those whom have bleached and are still not pleased, porcelain veneers can transform crooked, yellow, or poorly shapen teeth to perfection.  The process involves removing about .5-1.5 mm off the front surface of the tooth to make room for the custom fabricated thin porcelain sheets that are placed on the front surface to create the “perfect & natural” smile.  Call our office today to discuss the options and or alternatives to brighten your smile.  Many of us have worn away enamel, abraded away the tooth’s surfaces and need to rebuild the teeth.  Porcelain veneers can add a protective layer with the porcelain to those teeth that have worn and cracked.

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Grinding Your Teeth Away?

Stress, Age, and Stimulating Substances such as tobacco, caffeine, alcohol, methamphetamines, and other drugs can cause you to grind away your teeth to nothing!  Grinding and clenching can cause tension headaches, facial pain, tooth destruction, and temporomandibular joint disorders.  Grinders will often wake up one day and look in the mirror and realize that their teeth are half the size that they used to be–many times a simple night guard made at the dental office can reduce the posiblilities of these complications.  Some patients can not sleep without their night guard in place.  Night guards are the best single preventive tool that I give to patients.  It really can save your teeth and decrease headaches and pain.

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Too Much Coffee–Quick Tips to a Bright Smile

We leave our house, go to Starbucks for our “morning jolt of coffee” and we rush off to work.  The stain from the coffee stays on your teeth and the build up eventually turns them dark.  What can we do for a quick fix?  Rinse your mouth out with water right after your morning coffee so that the dark stains are washed away.  Also, once a week you can use my “special mix” of a little baking soda and hydrogen peroxide blended into a paste to brush your teeth.  Be careful because this can be abrasive so use it sparingly and only once per week.  This mix will help remove the coffee stains.  You can also come into the office for a Zoom bleaching which takes about an hour and that can bleach out any stains or discolorations from coffee, tea, or red wine.  The holidays are filled with fun parties and festive drinking of all different kinds of dark liquids so now is a great time to give a gift certificate for a bleaching to friends or family.  Bleaching certificates make a fabulous holiday gift.

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Holiday Eating, Drinking, and Festivities

Make sure that you save your teeth and protect your waistline for the holidays.  We always have an increase of emergency cracked and broken teeth during the holidays.  People usually complain of gaining weight because they are eating unhealthy food.  Everyone is drinking and eating differently, staying up later, and consuming more calories.   Make your choices smart when it comes to food–pick the healthier alternative.  Choose the fresh fish, fruit, or vegetables instead of fried or buttery food alternative.  We all tend to eat richer foods that can be filled with nuts or other hard food substances that can crack or break your teeth.  Sometimes foods can have a very hard component that you can not visually detect–so bite softly and chew a little slower at the next holiday party.  Candied nuts are a big culprit during the holidays when it comes to broken teeth.  Remember, we only get one set of teeth and we need to be gentile because they are not as indestructible as we think.  So choosing a few less calories and being aware of hard foods can keep our waistline trim and our teeth healthy.  If you do break a tooth, please call the office immediately and we will assist you.

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Halloween Candy–Tricks to Save Your Teeth

Every Halloween our kids collect loads of candy and eat as much as they can before going to bed.  Dr. Sherri Worth has some tips to “save the teeth” from the sugary candy that surrounds Halloween.  First, have a good dinner before the big night so that you and your kids will have nutrients to start of the evening of sugary treats.  Make sre that the kids (and yourselves) are drinking plenty of water.  If you can influence your kids to rinse out intermittently with water to “flush the sugar bugs away,”  it will help to keep the sugar from resting in the grooves of your teeth.  Brush your teeth and your children;s teeth well before going to bed.  PLEASE!  Do not take the sugary candy to your room or to bed with you.

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