Cosmetic Dentistry

Dermal Fillers at a Dental Practice: Why It Makes More Sense Than You’d Think Why get dermal fillers at a dental practice? Dr. Liza Wakim — AAFE-certified — explains why dentists are uniquely qualified for facial injectables, what treatments she offers, and what patients should know.   When patients find out that I offer dermal […]

Tooth Sensitivity vs. a Cavity: How to Actually Tell the Difference “Is this just sensitivity, or do I actually have a cavity?” This might be the single most common diagnostic question I field in a given week, and it makes total sense why — both show up as tooth pain triggered by cold, hot, or

Cracked Tooth Syndrome: Why a Tooth Can Hurt Only Sometimes “It only hurts when I bite down a certain way, and my X-ray looked fine — so what is it?” I hear a version of this almost every week, and it’s one of the more frustrating experiences a patient can have: real pain, no visible

Teeth Grinding and Your Smile: When It’s Cosmetic, When It’s Structural A patient recently came in wanting veneers because her front teeth had gotten noticeably shorter over the past few years and looked worn at the edges. That’s a completely reasonable thing to want fixed — but before we talked about veneers, we needed to