For centuries, those about to purchase a horse have taken a look in the horse’s mouth as a means of assessing the wisdom of their investment – outward appearances can be misleading. Primarily, horse buyers have been looking for distinct and quite reliable indicators of the horse’s actual age. In recent decades, there’s growing evidence [...]
If you’re considering cosmetic dentistry, you may have heard the terms bonding and veneers. The basic intent of both cosmetic dentistry procedures is the same, but the materials used are quite different. Bonding uses a tooth-colored composite resin – a putty-like material that we apply over a chip in a tooth or to cover over [...]
As one of the earliest certified providers of Raleigh sedation dental care (oral conscious sedation), I have patients from time to time who ask me when dentists first started using sedation. Would you believe that the answer to that question is during the 1840’s? Connecticut dentist Horace Wells introduced the use of nitrous oxide that [...]
