What Happens When a Patient Reaches Terminal Dentition Stage?
Losing a single tooth can be a traumatic experience and many patients have a hard time coping with it. This hardly comes as a surprise. After all, losing even that one tooth can have a detrimental impact on the patient’s dental and overall health. The impact can also be psychological. For instance, a patient missing […] ...
Read More »Can Sinus Problems Cause Oral Problems?
Are you wiping your nose all the time? Are you prone to headaches that seem to affect the whole side of your face, including your teeth? All these symptoms are annoying, but they may also serve as warning signs of sinusitis, a condition that needs to be treated before it gets out of hand. Sinusitis […] ...
Read More »How to Teach Kids to Keep Their Teeth Healthy
Emergency tooth extractions in Lake Elsinore can be overwhelming even for adults, not alone for kids, which is why it is up to the grown-ups, be it parents or teachers, to teach children about the importance and, why not, joys of maintaining proper dental and oral hygiene, which is the first line of defense against […] ...
Read More »How Can You Improve Your Dental Hygiene?
Being careful and diligent about following an appropriate dental and oral care routine and scheduling regular dentist appointments is important whether you have natural teeth or a replacement, as it helps avoid negative outcomes and prevent complications down the line. It is just as important to pass that message on to children so they can […] ...
Read More »3 Common Reasons You May Need an Oral Surgeon
Many Riverside County residents have never had any type of surgery at all. So, when they find out they need oral surgery to take care of a dental need, they’re surprised. However, there are actually quite a few common reasons why you may need a local oral surgeon to help you with your dental care. […] ...
Read More »Dental Implants and Oral Surgery
Dental implants are truly one of the greatest dental scientific advances of our time. Implants are tiny titanium rods which are inserted into the upper and lower jaw to serve as the stable platform for dental crowns (caps). They function similarly to the roots of teeth, in that they attach to the jaw bone and give stability and retention to the dental crown—the functional part of the tooth needed for chewing. ...
Read More »Worrisome Dental Trends
In the last 5 days I received two frantic phone calls from concerned patients. Both had their teeth recently removed in a general dental office and both ended up with bad complications. The first patient had a part of the tooth accidentally pushed into the sinus cavity underneath his eyeball. The second patient ended up with a numb lip after a wisdom tooth removal. ...
Read More »Our Patients First
Here at Temecula Facial Oral Surgery, we do everything possible to accommodate with same day appointment to ALL patients in pain! We do same day extractions and do not push for general anesthesia. All procedures can be done under local anesthesia. FREE (Dental Implants, Wisdom Teeth) Consultation including X-rays! ...
Read More »Who is extracting your tooth (part 2)?
I would like to share with you a heartbreaking story of a patient who came into my office. This 45 year-old male patient had two lower left teeth removed at another dental office two months ago. The patient never quite “felt right” after the extraction, having pain, swelling and not being able to open his mouth fully. ...
Read More »Another unusual pathology case
43 year-old female presented for evaluation of opaque lesion associated with mesial root of #19; Patient is asymptomatic, the lesion was found on routine radiographic examination; Tooth #19 is vital; no tenderness to palpation or percussion; There is on associated vestibular swelling; The radiographic appearance of this lesion is diagnostic: Opaque lesion that is replacing the root of the tooth and is surrounded by a radiolucent ring. ...
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