Dental Advice Archives

If you have just received a new dental crown – congratulations and welcome to both your newly restored smile and your renewed personal comfort and confidence! Your dental crown is surely fast-becoming a tooth restoration to treasure as you can no doubt see and feel the perfect functional and aesthetic benefits which we proudly took […]

Modern dental implants represent an elegant and safe way to permanently replace lost teeth. From our professional experience in clinic, we know that in some cases the attending dentist will discover during the first examination that there is not enough jawbone for a dental implant to be successfully placed at the current time so bone augmentation

Dental Implants restore your chewing ability despite tooth loss due to tooth decay, an accident or even periodontal issues. If you now have implant-supported dentures which are securely anchored into the mouth, they offer you the highest standards of aesthetically-pleasing results possible. These dental restorations renew your personal comfort and confidence in so many aspects

Grinding and clenching your teeth – also known as bruxism – can become an uncomfortable oral habit leading to both teeth damage and painful jaw joints (also known as the temporomandibular joint). Patients mainly grind their teeth subconsciously at night time whilst sleeping with the consequences usually taking some time to become apparent and so gradually necessitate

News Can Patients Who Choose to Smoke Harm Their Veneers? We know that veneers are a tried and tested cosmetic dentistry procedure used to conceal discolorations, teeth misalignments or even the presence of fractures in the front of the mouth. At Wimpole Street Dental Clinic, we would encourage those valued patients of ours who choose to

News How to recognise and prevent peri-implantitis happening to you! Did you know that around 130,000 dental implants are placed by dentists in the United Kingdom, annually? Know that most dental implants do heal successfully, but some placements are soon lost due to the onset of peri-implantitis. This development of inflammation around the dental implant is hazardous and it is

At Wimpole Street Dental Clinic, we appreciate that many of our patients wish for their dental implant to heal as quickly as possible. Many of our patients also wish to be able to restore the affected site within the mouth immediately with a tooth restoration. Here we would like to explain in more detail just why

Here at Wimpole Street Dental Clinic, we all appreciate that missing or loose teeth can seriously affect a patient’s quality of life as we see the effects of such an oral health situation every day in clinic. Being able to eat, laugh and speak with natural ease – these daily life necessities can become suddenly

News What should I do if my Root Canal Treatment is deemed to be unsuccessful? Root canal treatments are usually successful for our valued patients but be aware that statistically-speaking, in at least 10% of cases, the inflammation can flare up again after the procedure. Let us explore the reasons why this can happen, which