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What Is The Difference Between Crowns and Veneers?

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 Both crowns and veneers are types of dental restorations that improve your cosmetic appeal and teeth function. Although they look the same, whether it's to fix a cracked, chipped, decayed, discoloured or broken tooth, they are different. Dental Clinic The materials used to make them are also similar as they look and feel the same. You can't tell the difference between a crown and veneer in comparison to natural teeth. The only difference that emerges is when you prefer to have metal crowns; they will look different from your natural teeth. Depending on your need, your dentist will advise you on whether to get crowns or veneers. Crowns Crowns fit over your existing teeth or dental implants to restore the appearance of a discoloured tooth or add support to a damaged tooth. To create the crown, the dentist needs to prepare your tooth, such as filling it to make space for the crown. The dentist will then take an impression of the tooth and surrounding teeth to send to the la...

What does a Dental Digital Scanner Do?

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Dental digital scanners are also called intraoral scanners. An intraoral scanner is a device that captures a direct oral impression. Just like the name, it scans your teeth. The device projects a light source onto the area to be scanned, and images are captured by imaging sensors. They are then processed in scanning software to produce a 3D surface model.   Intraoral scanning devices are used for therapeutic and preventive care. They can capture 3D high-resolution images and create records of the complex and soft tissues to monitor oral disease and conditions. Basically, they create a digital impression, improve diagnostics and create digital records.   For digital impression, the scanner projects the source of light laser to scan the teeth or objects such as dental arches, implant scan bodies or prepared teeth. Images captured are both of hard and soft tissues and restorations. Software generating point clouds process the image. The point clouds generate representations of th...

Acidic Foods to Avoid to Keep your Teeth Healthy

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When preparing family dinner, having a variety of food groups and macronutrients on the dinner table is often a high priority. Creating balanced meals requires a variety of foods, and this often means the combination of bitter, sweet or even acidic flavours. While providing such variety is likely well intended, too much of a good thing can be harmful.     Acidic foods in particular are one of the most destructive foods with high potential for tooth decay and enamel damage. While it is not necessary to avoid all acidic foods in your diet, in order to efficiently care for your teeth, it is ideal to minimise their consumption. To best avoid the acidity from harming your teeth, whenever possible, consume water when you do eat acidic food.   To maintain a healthy diet and optimal dental health, there are a few highly acidic foods you may want to avoid. This certainly doesn’t mean missing out on the foods you love, there are many alternatives on the market to ensure you are sat...