At Terrace Dental Care we can help with a whole host of oral concerns, from treating TMJ and sleep apnoea, to providing advice on gum disease (periodontology).
If you have had missing teeth for a while then loss of bone in your jaw or bone atrophy is the body’s normal response to tooth loss, infection, gum disease of other trauma. This may mean you need some treatment before the Implant can be placed. The team here at Terrace Dental Care will advise you of this.
Your temporomandibular joint is the hinge that connects your jaw to your skull, pain in this part of your jaw is particularly common. Around 30 percent of adults will experience it at some point in their lifetimes, and usually it will go away of its own accord.
Gum disease is silent, so it’s important to get your Terrace Dental Care dentist or hygienist to check for signs regularly. As with any health issue, if caught early it is much easier treat, with better results.
There are 15 million snorers in the UK but it affects almost twice as many – that’s a partner whose sleep is being disturbed every night. Snoring may be a commonly dismissed problem but it should be tackled professionally, as with any other ailment, as soon as you’re aware of it.
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