When a permanent tooth has been injured, our first priority should be to save it. A root canal treatment (where the interior pulp of the tooth is removed and the pulp chamber and root canals are filled and sealed) is usually the best approach for tooth preservation. An immature permanent tooth, however, presents a different […]
Dental Procedures
Making the Right Choices With Removable Partial Dentures
Categories: Dental Procedures
Removable partial dentures (RPDs) are a common replacement option for multiple lost teeth. However, they’re not the best long-term option; in fact, one particular type of RPD could be a poor choice if you wish to wear them long-term. Made primarily of plastic, these RPDs are sometimes referred to as “flippers” because of how the […]
Iron Chef Cat Cora Shares a Secret of Her Bright Smile: Tooth Whitening
Categories: Dental Procedures
When asked about her dazzling white smile, Cat Cora, the first female iron chef on the hit television series Iron Chef America, freely admits to maintaining the brightness of her smile with professional whitening sessions. “With what I do, whitening your teeth is like getting your hair done, your nails done and everything else you […]
Avoiding the Jim Carrey Chipped-Tooth Look
Categories: Dental Procedures
Fans of the classic bumbling-buddies comic film “Dumb and Dumber” will surely remember the chipped front tooth that Jim Carrey sported as simpleminded former limo driver Lloyd Christmas. Carrey reportedly came up with the idea for this look when considering ways to make his character appear more “deranged.” He didn’t need help from the make-up […]
Padma Lakshmi’s Smile: A Recipe for Beauty
Categories: Dental Procedures
Before she began hosting the long-running TV competition Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi was a well-known model and successful cookbook author. (Appropriately, she is said to have been “discovered” by a modeling agent while sitting in a café in Madrid.) Yet the Indian-born beauty’s striking look — at once exotic and familiar — doesn’t come from […]
Jamie Foxx Gets Into Character With Help From His Dentist
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If you were a well-known actor, how far would you go to get inside the character you’re playing in a movie? Plenty of stars have gained or lost weight to fit the role; some have tried to relate to their character by giving up creature comforts, going through boot camp, even trying out another occupation […]
Howard Stern Opens Up – About His Teeth
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Is there anything that radio and TV personality (and self-proclaimed “King of All Media”) Howard Stern doesn’t want to talk about in public? Maybe not — but it took a caller’s on-air question to get the infamous shock jock to open up about his own dental work. When he was directly asked if his teeth […]
Evolutions in Tooth-Colored Fillings
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Tooth-colored fillings are just one of the many ways that cosmetic dentistry has evolved over the past few decades. There was once a time where having a cavity treated meant that you would be left with a noticeable metal filling. However, today we have an array of tools and materials available that help make tooth […]
Bill Rancic’s Smile Helps Close the Deal
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Can having a great smile help land you a high-level business position, a TV show, and a bride? Maybe — at least if you go by the example of Bill Rancic. The 42-year-old Chicago native is well known as the first winner of NBC-TV’sThe Apprentice, a reality show where contestants vied for a job with […]
Kristin Cavallari’s “Spaghetti Catcher” – First Step To A Winning Smile
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Kristin Cavallari’s flawless smile has been featured on TV, film and magazine covers. But the 25-year-old actress and reality-show personality didn’t always have a perfect set of teeth. In fact, she told Dear Doctormagazine — where readers recently voted to crown her with the “Smile of the Year” award — that her dental treatments began […]
