General Dentistry

Caring for your smile
At The Dental Connection, we have a strong focus on helping you and your family to have healthy, happy smiles.

We encourage all our patients to visit us regularly for check-up examinations, so we can keep a close eye on your teeth and gums and spot any potential problems at an early stage.

Our oral hygienist plays a key role in your oral health, helping you to avoid or combat gum disease.

If you do have any problems we are able to solve them. We can restore damaged teeth with treatments such as fillings and crowns. Our specialist prosthodontist services mean we can offer options for replacing missing teeth, even in complex cases.


Keeping your teeth for life

 Your gums form the foundation of your smile, and provide vital support for your teeth, so it is important to keep them healthy.

Gum disease is a very common condition, and in its early stages can cause sore, swollen or bleeding gums and bad breath. If left untreated, it can eventually lead to tooth loss.

It is also increasingly being linked to overall health problems, including heart disease, diabetes and premature birth.

It is caused by plaque, a constantly-forming layer of sticky bacteria. Cleaning your teeth regularly, including around and below the gumline, can remove some of the bacteria, but rarely removes it all.

Our oral hygienists will give your teeth a professional clean, removing all the plaque, and will polish them, making it more difficult for new plaque to cling to them, and also making them feel smooth and fresh.

They will also advise you on the best way of caring for your teeth and gums at home, including following a healthy diet and avoiding smoking.

Extractions

 Many people have to have a tooth removed at some stage of their lives. Some people need to have their wisdom teeth removed, usually because they are growing in the wrong direction and causing problems. Sometimes teeth are over-crowded, and some may need to be extracted as part of orthodontic (tooth straightening) treatment. Gum disease can cause teeth to become loose in the later stages, which may mean they need to be extracted, and sometimes teeth can simply become too damaged, either accidentally or through decay, and need to be taken out.

We are fortunate enough to be able to offer the services of an oral surgeon so patients requiring extractions are in very good hands.

The procedure for an extraction is usually very simple from a patient’s perspective. We numb your tooth and the surrounding area so you feel no pain. We then hold the tooth firmly and ease it out. There is usually a little bleeding so we place a gauze pad in the tooth socket and ask you to bite down on it for about half an hour, after which it can be thrown away.