When a person is asked if he is healthy, many will be quick to answer: “Yes, I am”, but in reality, how confident are you that you truly are? Health is a very tricky thing and many of those who think they are healthy, often do not know of any underlying condition that they…
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Emergency Dental Services
Your son has knocked out a tooth at a weekend baseball game. You wake up at 3:00 in the morning with throbbing tooth pain. Your dental clinic won’t be open for hours or days and you don’t know what to do. Fortunately, you can call Gentle Breeze Dental at any time. Dr. Diep, rotate…
Oral Surgery: What to Anticipate
It’s common to feel slightly anxious when you learn that you need oral surgery. In most cases, people feel nervous because they don’t know what to expect or they imagine the procedure will be painful. At Gentle Breeze Dental, your comfort is our priority. Whether you’re having a tooth extracted, an oral tumor removed,…
Keeping Infected Teeth With Root Canal Treatment
Root canal treatment is concerned with eliminating infection from the root canals of teeth and restoring the supporting tissues back to health. Its main purpose is to save teeth that have been so badly damaged by decay, fracture, abscess, etc. that usual dental procedures cannot fullfil. A root canal treatment removes the infected or…
Water: Benefits of Drinking for your Oral Health
There are many benefits from drinking water other than improving your physical health. Water just may be the best beverage for your teeth. Just like saliva, water helps wash away sugars and acids from your teeth. It is consists of fluoride, a mineral that safeguard against tooth erosion and is found in toothpaste and…
Symptoms That You Need to Go to an Emergency Dentist
There are simple reasons you go to a dentist, and there are emergency reasons too. How and what should you know to do if you need to go to emergency dentist? A regular check up to your dentist, to know more to be more guarded. If you check in one or more of our…
Why You Should Choose Porcelain Veneers?
When one or several of your teeth are chipped, cracked, or stained, it affects your appearance as well as the functionality of the rest of your teeth. This is also true when you have a wide gap between two of your teeth. Porcelain veneers, provide by Dr. Kevin Diep in Port Saint Lucie, Florida,…
How Dental Implants Work
Dental implants provide patients with permanent, non-removable replacement teeth attached to small rods in the jawbone and gums. This procedure has become increasingly popular over the past several years because it makes an attractive alternative to traditional removable dentures. Although most patients are excited about the benefits, they don’t quite understand how they go…
Selecting Different Types of Dental Bridges
Dental bridge is a more aesthetic and cosmetic process that a patient can select to receive, after they have lost a tooth or a few teeth. Instead of getting a removable denture whose retentive properties are not at all reliable, dental bridges can be recommend in order for the objective of the mouth can…
Oral Health for Pregnant Women
Pregnancy can lead to dental problems in some women, including gum disease and increased risk of tooth decay. Setting up an appointment with your Dentist may be at the bottom of your list during your pregnancy, but it is a very important part in the development of your baby. Your baby’s first teeth develop within…
Cure and Prevention of Gum Disease
Regular teeth cleaning and prevention is the first step to avoiding dental diseases and tooth decay. One should have a personalized dental program aimed at preventing dental problems. A healthy and confident smile can be prolonged by preventing the onset, progress, and recurrence of dental diseases. To maintain your oral health you should have regular…
Post Treatment Care: Root Canal
Root canal procedure is mostly given to patients who experienced an extensive damage to their teeth. Usually the damage has reached the tooth’s pulp thus causing pain and swelling around the affected tooth. Instead of extracting the tooth, the dentist would try to salvage it by performing a root canal procedure. During the process, the…