Must a tooth damaged by decay, infection or oral injury be extracted? Maybe it does. However, thousands of teeth receive dental crowns to restore them to full strength and appearance.
Drs. Bagley, Goodwin and Hrinda and their associate dentists offer innovative CEREC same-day crowns to refinish marred smiles. Learn the pros and cons of traditional crowns and CEREC restorations.
You don’t want to everyone to be able to count your fillings when you laugh at the end of a good joke. Fortunately, today’s dentistry options take the health and appearance of your smile into consideration — and white fillings near Deerfield are a perfect example.
The goal of good dentistry is to save the natural tooth whenever possible — and if severe damage or decay have gotten the better of one of yours, a root canal may be the best way to do that. But don’t worry, it’s probably not as bad as you’ve always heard. In fact, most people who’ve had one will tell you they’re nothing compared to the discomfort of the original toothache. Educate yourself on the procedure for root canal and you’ll be prepared when it’s time for yours — and you’ll see that really, it’s not as bad as you thought.
The dentists and their team at Bagley, Goodwin & Hrinda PC in Greenfield, MA, realize that you may not be thrilled to hear that you have a tooth that needs a crown. In your mind’s eye, you may see yourself missing work, driving back and forth to our office and spending hours in the dentist’s chair. Well, you can erase that picture! We have purchased the CEREC system, which allows us to complete your crown procedure in just one visit.
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Whether you just lost your tooth, or you have a tooth that hasn’t been replaced after an extended period of time, it is essential for your dental health that you replace missing teeth. At Bagley, Goodwin, & Hirinda we help you find a tooth replacement solution that fits your needs, budget and schedule. Call our friendly staff today to schedule your tooth replacement consultation. Our family-friendly Greenfield, MA dental practice will work with you to quickly replace your missing teeth and restore your beautiful smile.
Replacing missing teeth is not just about restoring your beautiful, healthy smile. Replacing missing teeth is beneficial to your overall dental health. Spaces left by missing teeth can allow dental drift where your surrounding teeth move to fill the space. Dental drift can completely change your bite, leave gaps in teeth, undo pricey orthodontic straightening, and a misaligned bite puts you at risk for TMJ.
Another effect missing teeth have on oral health is the deterioration of gum tissue and bone density. Without the root to support gum tissue and stimulate the jawbone to maintain density, rapid deterioration can be seen. Depending on age, in just a few months you can see a noticeable change of your facial features due to the change in gum tissue and bone density.
Whenever possible, we want to preserve your original tooth. This is often difficult due to the extremely time sensitive nature of lost tooth replacement. If you do loose a tooth, clean both the tooth and the socket and try to replace the tooth and hold it in place by biting down on gauze. Always handle a tooth by the crown, and avoid touching the root. If you are unable to replace the tooth, hold the tooth between your cheek and gums or store in a glass of milk until you can get to our office. Call us as soon as possible, so we can prepare to see you immediately. If the tooth can be replaced in about an hour, we are generally able to reattach it with no problem.
If we are unable to replace your natural tooth, there are numerous other tooth replacement options that will look and feel great. Our practice offers dental implants, bridges, partials and dentures to meet any tooth replacement needs.
To maximize gum tissue and jawbone density retention, dental implants are highly effective. The implant is a titanium post set in the gum to replace the root. A crown is anchored to the post to create a permanent replacement tooth that functions just like a natural tooth. Implant technology can also be used on multiple teeth or a full arch. Implant supported dentures are semi-permanent and help many denture wearers regain the ability to eat their favorite crunchy, sticky or chewy food. Additional, because implant supported dentures do not block the pallet, patients are able to taste more flavors in their food.
If implants are not a viable option for you, single tooth and multiple tooth replacement can be done using crowns and bridges. Because you do not have a root or implant to anchor a crown, a bridge connects a crown to the surrounding teeth. This is an effective tooth replacement option that is minimally invasive and can help restore your bite to full strength.
Partial dentures or partials are a good option when you might need multiple crown and bridge treatments. Partials are made up of a set of customized artificial teeth that are attached to a plastic support that is made to resemble your gum line. Like a crown and bridge, partials are anchored to surrounding teeth for stability.
Finally, traditional dentures are made to replace an upper or lower arch or a full-set of teeth. Traditional dentures attach to your gums using adhesive, and provide facial shape and support to those who have lost all of the teeth in one or both arches. This is an effective method of returning a patient’s ability to articulate and thoroughly chew their meals.
If you are missing one or more teeth, don’t waste another minute trying to decide whether you should replace them. Let the professionals at Bagley, Goodwin & Hirinda PC help you find the best tooth replacement treatment for you. Call to schedule a consultation with the knowledgeable dental staff at our Greenfield, MA office. We welcome patients form surrounding areas including Deerfield, Conway, Shelburne Falls, Turners Falls, Northfield, and Amherst.
If you are missing even one tooth—to say nothing of several teeth—then you know how difficult chewing, speaking and smiling become. Replacing those teeth, therefore, is more than just a matter of appearance. There are also concerns about nutritional health and self-esteem. Fortunately, Bagley, Goodwin & Hrinda in Greenfield, MA, offer crown and bridge work, an excellent choice for tooth replacement.
Whether fixed or removable, a bridge consists of a pontic, or prosthetic tooth, and the anchors that hold it in place. In the case of a crown and bridge, those anchors are dental crowns (also called abutments) that are placed on the teeth that sit on either side of a missing tooth or teeth. As such, the bridge is a permanent and secure tooth replacement option.
The Crown and Bridge Procedure
Once you and your dentist at Bagley, Goodwin & Hrinda decide that crown and bridge is the best option for you, we’ll take x-rays, impressions and photos of the area where the bridge will be placed in order to design the best fitting bridge for you. Then, the teeth that will support the bridge will be prepared for crowns. Once again, we’ll take an impression of these prepared teeth, so the crowns can be precisely fabricated in a dental lab. While your permanent bridge is made, we’ll give you a temporary bridge to protect your teeth and gums.
Finally, you’ll return to our office for a final visit when your crown and bridge will be cemented into place.
Caring for Your Crown and Bridge
Once your crown and bridge are in place, you will need to brush twice a day as usual and floss with a special bridge floss threader that will allow you to floss around and under the prosthetic tooth. With proper hygiene, your crown and bridge will last for many years.
Call Our Office Today
For more information about crown and bridge, or to schedule an appointment, call the office of Bagley, Goodwin & Hrinda. We serve patients in Greenfield, MA, as well as the surrounding areas of Deerfield, Conway, Shelburne Falls, Turner Falls, Northfield, Amherst, and Northampton.
Tooth loss can be devastating. Especially if the dentist recommends that you remove a large number of teeth at the same time due to advanced decay or periodontal disease. Fortunately, there are dental treatments available that can fully restore the look and feel of normal teeth. If you are healthy enough to undergo the procedure, dental implants are the best choice for restoring loss teeth. Make an appointment with the gentle and caring dentists of Bagley, Goodwin, and Hrinda. Bagley, Goodwin, and Hrinda proudly serve patients throughout Greenfield, MA, Deerfield, Conway, Shelburne Falls, Turner Falls, Northfield, Amherst, Northampton, and nearby cities.
Greenfield Dental Implants: The Procedure
The dental implant process can take several months from start to finish. Most of this time is needed for healing and waiting for the growth of new bone in the jaw.
Greenfield Dental Implants: What Is Bone Grafting?
If the jawbone isn’t thick enough or hard enough, you may need a procedure called bone grafting before dental implant surgery can be started. The powerful chewing action of your mouth exerts such enormous pressure on the bone. If the existing bone can’t withstand this pressure with the implant, the surgery would likely fail. A bone graft can create a more solid base for the implant. With bone grafting, a piece of bone is removed from another part of your jaw or your body, like your hip and transplanted to your jawbone. It could take up to nine months for the transplanted bone to grow enough new bone to support a dental implant. Sometimes you may need only minor bone grafting, which can be completed at the same time as the implant surgery. The condition of your jawbone determines how you proceed.
Greenfield Dental Implants Appointments
There are many important considerations before deciding upon dental implant surgery. Certain medical conditions may prohibit the procedure. The first step toward successful dental implant treatment is to make an appointment with Bagley, Goodwin, and Hrinda today. The experienced dentists of Bagley, Goodwin, and Hrinda proudly restore smiles in Greenfield, MA, Deerfield, Conway, Shelburne Falls, Turner Falls, Northfield, Amherst, Northampton, and nearby communities.
Are you missing one or more teeth? The team at Bagley, Goodwin & Hrinda in Greenfield, MA can help. Using dental implants, patients who need to replace a single tooth, multiple teeth, or a full upper or lower arch can get the help they need. What’s more, patients who end up with one or more dental implants can look forward to great results that look and feel natural.
With traditional restorative services, it’s much harder to achieve results that feel natural because those methods only restore what’s above the gum line. What they don’t do is replace your smile’s underlying structure.
Tooth roots serve a very important function by securing your teeth to your jaw and encouraging the growth of new bone tissue, keeping your jaw healthy and strong throughout life. They achieve these results using small rods of titanium, which are surgically placed in the jaw. Over time, they’ll bond with the jaw, mimicking the natural structure of teeth.
The surgical phase of a dental implant procedure is called the placement phase. In the restoration phase, your crown, bridge, partial, or full denture is attached to your implant(s). Not every dental office can perform both phases, but at Bagley, Goodwin & Hrinda, our doctors can guide patients through both of them on-site, without the need for a referral.
Not every patient is an ideal patient for dental implants, though. To find out if this revolutionary restorative service is right for you, call Bagley, Goodwin & Hrinda to schedule a consultation. Our doctors are happy to place and restore dental implants for patients from Deerfield, Conway, Shelburne Falls, Turner Falls, Northfield, Amherst, Northampton, and surrounding states.
Welcome to the blog for Bagley, Goodwin, and Hrinda. Here you’ll find valuable information about the general, cosmetic, and restorative services we offer, plus helpful tips about oral health in general. Whether you’re just looking for some information on a particular dental service, or you’re new to the Greenfield area and need to find a permanent dentist, we think you’ll find our blog helpful.
Our doctors offer care for a wide variety of common oral health problems. Some of our most popular services include:
Working with you one-on-one, Drs. Bagley, Goodwin, and Hrinda can help you understand how your smile is doing and what services you might need to improve your health. We recommend that our patients from Greenfield, MA and beyond see us for care at least twice a year. Through regular appointments like these, we can check for changes that might indicate the need for more advanced care.
Do you want to schedule an appointment with Drs. Bagley, Goodwin or Hrinda? Call our Greenfield dental office today. We serve patients from Deerfield, Conway, Shelburne Falls, Turners Falls, Northfield, Amherst, Northampton, and beyond. And for more info on our services, explore our site or check back with our blog.
Fascinating scientific research is being done all the time to improve the field of dentistry. Through studies over the years, we came to find out the importance of fluoride and dental sealants. Research has allowed us to come up with better materials for making tooth restorations and dental implants look aesthetically pleasing while still being durable. Recent research done at the University of Southern California could be one of the first steps in learning how stem cells can help us regenerate teeth the way certain animals do in nature. Greenfield dentists, Drs. Bagley, Goodwin, and Hrinda will tell you more about this fascinating new information.
The global team of researchers were led by USC pathology Professor Cheng-Ming Chuong, M.D., Ph.D. Titling the study “Specialized stem cell niche enables repetitive renewal of alligator teeth,” the scientists results were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This is the official journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
Professor Chong pointed out that people only generate teeth twice in their life time. The first is when baby teeth gradually erupt. After they fall out one-at-a-time, permanent teeth grow in. This is a small amount of teeth renewal compared to the alligator, which was the focus of the study. The research team focused on stem cells as being an important part of the natural regrowth of teeth that occurs when an alligator has a dental casualty due to hunting or fighting. The theory of the study was that if we can understand the way alligator’s teeth work, maybe we can replicate the process to restore human teeth.
