Restorative Dentistry

It may be easy to get caught up hurry through a moment in your day and succumbing to using your teeth for a task that makes them vulnerable to damage. Teeth can shift out of place, get chipped, and possibly even break from pressure and strain that they weren’t intended to be put through. Unwanted mishaps are more prone to happen when used beyond what they were designed for – chewing to make digesting our food easier. Too many invasive and expensive emergency dental repairs could have been avoided.

Since our teeth also help us to converse and produce sounds (such as whistling) and provide our face its shape, they are important to protect. This is a great reason to avoid actions that could unnecessarily jeopardize them and place you in need of reconstructive emergency dental care.

Some individuals are placing their oral health at risk by treating their teeth as tools for tasks they are not designed for. A research study led jointly by the Oral Health Foundation and Philips as a contribution to the National Smile Month, reports that “two-in-three of us (65%) frequently use our teeth for tasks other than eating and drinking”. The Oral Health Foundation’s June 5, 2019 article reports that Opening bottles, tearing clothing tags and doing up zips – the most alternative uses for our teeth revealed