What habits and foods stain your teeth? As you might imagine, intensely colored foods and beverages tend to be the biggest offenders. Imagine what can badly stain the perfect white shirt. The same stands true for the teeth. The more intense the color, the more potential there is for staining. The biggest offenders are red …
Periodontitis is an inflammatory disease, microbial (bacterial) in its nature, affecting the tissues that surround and support the teeth. In a picture below, various stages of periodontitis are shown: from early to advanced stage with stronger and stronger tissue resorption. As a few other chronic inflammations, periodontitis may impair vascular function, and epidemiologic data suggest …
On Sept 11-13, Cascade Dental Group team participated in 2015 Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival. We proudly sponsored the Festival which has been an amazing Mukilteo community tradition for the last 50 years. It was a great opportunity to meet many community members, people of different ages and occupations, and to talk to them about dental health …
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No two people have the same set of teeth — your teeth are as unique as your fingerprint, so be proud of your unique set of teeth. Your mouth produces over 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime — that’s enough to fill two swimming pools. An average person spends 38.5 days brushing their teeth …
Our clinic acquired The Gemini laser with a PBM adapter, allowing us to offer patients a pain management therapy for TMJ and other discomfort patients may experience. Photobiomodulation (PBM), or low-level laser therapy, is a non-invasive photo-chemical reaction where light energy of a certain wavelength, intensity, and duration is absorbed at a cellular level, improving …
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Biofilms Are Like Adolescent Female Cliques: Complex, Socially Sophisticated, And Protective Plaque on our teeth is a biofilm. Initially, isolated bacteria drift solo in liquids, but under favorable conditions, they form biofilms: bacteria multiply, coalesce and begin to adhere to solid surfaces (teeth) using slimy adhesives, they produce. Eventually, the bacteria produce so much protective slime …
Wisdom teeth are aptly named as they are the last teeth to erupt in life, usually coming in during your late teens or early twenties when a few more of life’s lessons have been learned. Pericoronitis occurs around a wisdom tooth that has failed to come in or has only partially erupted. A partially-erupted wisdom …
Cascade Dental Group uses and appreciates the benefits of the world’s first one-shade universal composite OMNICHROMA by Tokuyama Co. Composite utilizes Smart Chromatic Technology. The color matching mechanism is made possible by the uniformly sized supra-nano spherical fillers. These fillers provide restoration with high strength, polishability and stain resistance. Typical composites today rely on the …
Our office is excited about a new digital piece of equipment we added to our digital dentistry workflow- Medit i700 digital scanner. The scanner uses 3D-in-motion Video technology with full color streaming and will gradually replace messy old fashion impression materials. Hooray!
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