Jeffrey Hermen, DDS Blog

Even if sedation dentistry sounds good, you may worry about its potential price. That’s a fair concern – a treatment that “breaks the bank” won’t help you in the long run. Still, the cost of dental sedative work varies; it depends on factors related to your case. You can also trust that this treatment add-on is worth its final price. To learn more, here’s a primer on how much sedation dentistry costs from your Oklahoma dentist.

As part of your treatment, you may want to add sedation dentistry. The field has many sedatives that could keep you calm during a procedure. Still, you likely want to know how dental sedation feels first; that would help you choose. The good news is that your local sedation dentist can provide the answers you need. To that end, here’s a primer on sedation dentistry, how its sedatives feel, and how to know if you qualify for it.

Nitrous oxide, commonly known as “laughing gas,” is one of the most popular forms of sedation used in dentistry. Known for its calming effects, it helps patients, especially those with dental anxiety, relax during appointments. But how safe is nitrous oxide? Continue reading to learn more about sedation dentistry with nitrous oxide and its record of safety.

Coffee is life, as they say, but sometimes when you’re not feeling your best, life as usual must be put on hold. This is especially true when it comes to having a tooth extracted. Tooth extractions may not seem like a big deal, but they do require a bit of downtime and a few key changes to your routine to successfully heal. Unfortunately, that means you must lay off the coffee for at least a few days following your procedure. Here’s why when you get a tooth removed, it’s important to (temporarily!) forgo the joe.

While most people won’t experience any complications after having their wisdom teeth or any other tooth removed, about 3% of tooth extractions lead to dry socket. This severely painful condition results when a blood clot fails to form over or is dislodged from the removed tooth’s empty socket, resulting in the nerves, bone structure, and soft tissues therein being exposed to the stresses of the oral environment. Here’s what you should know about dry socket and how you can avoid it.

When people first get their dentures, there’s an adjustment phase that every patient will go through. While this prosthetic will make it much easier to do everything in your life, from eating to talking, but relearning how to do these things effortlessly will take a little bit of time.

Of course, being able to eat with your prosthetic isn’t necessarily something you can wait on; you’ll need have some food eventually, so it’s important that you learn how to do that. Here are a few tips that could potentially help you adjust a bit faster.

Traditional dentures have allowed many people to enjoy complete smiles after extensive tooth loss. While chewing food with dentures is much easier than chewing food without teeth, these appliances can have a lot of trouble with tougher or harder foods like steak, nuts, or crunchy veggies. Here’s how wearing dentures can affect your nutritional intake as well as how dental implants can help.

You might have heard about cosmetic dentistry, an expansive field that can do incredible things for patients that are unhappy with their smile. If you have some kind of issue with the way your teeth look, there’s likely a cosmetic treatment out there that could help you get a smile you could take real pride in.

However, patients on the older side are sometimes nervous about the procedure, wondering whether their age could cause complications for the procedure. If you’re curious, here’s what you should know about the prospect of getting cosmetic dentistry as a senior.

There’s no shortage of ways that someone can be unhappy with their smile. Even if your smile is technically healthy, you still might not be all that happy with what you see in the mirror each day. Thankfully, there are also a variety of cosmetic dental procedures out there. They can be used to deal with just about any issue that you could have with your smile, giving you teeth that you can take true pride in.

Here are some of the most common issues that people often have with their teeth, along with the cosmetic treatments that can be used to address them.

Many people have teeth with extensive flaws or damage, and many of them might be interested in what dentists can do to help them have a prettier smile. Veneers and dental crowns can both enhance your smile’s appearance by covering unsightly teeth, but one treatment or the other may be better depending on the patient’s unique situation. Here are the differences between dental crowns and veneers and a few reasons why one might be a better treatment.