Your smile depends on healthy teeth and gums which come from your diligent efforts combined with professional dental cleanings to do what you cannot at home--removing tartar, or hardened plaque, off of your pearly whites and gum line. Plaque can actually damage the strongest substance in the human body--your tooth enamel. Plaque could be said to be the Achilles' heel... read more »

Fractured teeth or decaying ones can allow bacteria to enter into the pulp chamber at the center of the tooth. This can infect the nerves, blood vessels, and connective tissues of the pulp and cause pulp death. The infection can spread to the tooth root and create an abscess there, which is a pus-filled pocket. The symptoms of abscess include... read more »