Tag: Medical Emergencies

Like Affinity Dental Care, most dentists nowadays do not use silver amalgam fillings anymore because of the mercury content in this material. We only use composite resin for the fillings in both anterior and molar teeth to avoid mercury alloy. We like composite resin because of other advantages as well – tooth coloured, translucency that makes it more life-like, less…

Modern dental implants are almost all made of titanium metal inserted into the jaw bone to support artificial teeth made with tooth-like materials. The material could be porcelain, lithium disilicate, composite resin, acrylic or zirconia. There are a few implants made with zirconium oxide, however. The titanium implants are usually greyish metallic, and the zirconium oxide ones are white. Titanium…

Sleep bruxism in children is characterized by grinding and involuntary teeth clenching. It is natural to be concerned if you hear your child grinding their teeth in their sleep. Bruxism in children lasts about four seconds and can occur up to six times per hour. Typically, the parents notice the condition first because they can hear the grinding noises at…