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Real Talk on Oral Hygiene

    Although your dentist has the delicate task of taking care of your mouth and monitoring your oral health, most of what will be done in your life to maintain your smile comes down to oral hygiene. It’s true that oral hygiene can be confusing with lots of...

Missing Tooth Options – What Are They?

Oh no - what can I replace my missing tooth with? If you're missing one or more teeth, you may be aware of the impact on your appearance and dental health.  A missing tooth in front affects the way you speak, chew and smile.  Missing teeth in the back can cause your...

Baby’s Healthy Teeth Begin Before Birth

Will you provide a good start for your baby's healthy teeth?  It's said that children are the future...and their oral health-care habits will impact tooth health when an adult. But, it all starts with mom. Teeth begin to form during the second month of pregnancy and...

Facial Effects of Multiple Tooth Loss

When you lose a tooth and don't replace it with an implant, bridge or partial, you run the risk of the teeth adjacent to the lost tooth drifting into that space and changing your bite. This can also lead to tooth decay and/or gum disease. But if you have several teeth...

Community Water Fluoridation

The following has been copied from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Department of Health and Human Services website and is no longer available.  We believe this information is still highly useful and valuable regarding health and hygiene.   Bottled...

Why Does My Tooth Require A Crown?

What is a crown anyway?  Why won't a filling suffice? A crown is a tooth-shaped restoration, usually made out of all porcelain, porcelain baked over metal, or all metal.  Unless requested by the patient, we almost exclusively use all porcelain at Timbercrest Dental. ...

Best Dentist in the Valley

Statistics and survey reports from the Disease Control and Prevention center has stated that nearly 29% of adults and 27% of children suffer a lot from tooth cavity problems. The worst part is that the cavities arising in the tooth remain untreated until it is too...

ASK THE DENTIST

If you ever have any dental questions about anything…something you read on our website, or something else related to dentistry, feel free to ask through our blog section.  Just click on the heading above.  I will look forward to answering your questions and/or reading...

WE FINALLY GOT OUR LAND!!!

I am very happy to announce that Timbercrest Dental Center, S.C. finally got the necessary land to start the detailed process of building a new, stand-alone, state-of-the-art office with all the latest equipment and technology.  We will be conveniently located about a...