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Dental Risk Factors - Part 2

HI everyone:

Sorry it has been so long since our risk factor series, but here we are. In a previous post, I discussed the risk factors associated with caries, everything from your habits, to your previous dental history.

Now, I want to discuss the second area that I focus on as a dentist when doing your examination - This has nothing to do with your teeth, but has everything to do with how long you keep them. It is your periodontal health. What is that?? Well, that involves all the structures that hold your teeth in your mouth like your gums and the bone around your teeth.

Periodontal disease can be silent and painless for many, many years and is the leading cause of tooth loss in the United States. When we do a comprehensive exam, we do measurements around all your teeth to get a baseline of the amount of bone loss and swelling around each tooth.

Based on your measurements, we then decide on a plan to get your gums and your bone to optimal health and to keep them that way.

the cheapest way to keep your gums healthy is to just get your cleanings done every six months. Even if you have other dental work that you cannot do at this time, at least keep your dental hygiene visits current.

Here are some of the risk factors for periodontal disease that we take into account when planning your treatment.

1 Previous history - How long has it been since you've seen the dentist? Do you have a history of gum disease? Are your gums bleeding? etc..

2. Periodontal Measurements - A tooth brush bristle can only go about 3-4 mm below your gums, therefore, if your measurements are above this, we need to reduce those measurements so you can easily maintain your gums healthy over the long term.

3. Smoking - Yet another reason not to smoke !!

4. Diabetes and other systemic diseases - Some chronic diseases can decrease your healing ability and cause more bone loss and swelling of your gums.

I hope this helps you to see how important your bone and gums are and to better understand what we are doing when we're looking in your mouth.

Until next time.

Make Your Appointment Online!

We would like to introduce to you our new online "Schedule An Appointment" App on our website at www.ladentalclinic.com. Now you don't have to find the time to call us and figure out a convinient time. All you simply need to do is; go to our main page, click on the 'click here' section, look at all of our open slots, and book your own appointment. You can also add any notes or questions, we would respond by calling you or e-mailing you in return whichever one is more convinient for you.

Really Cool, Right? Feel free to give it a try!

You can also go to our facebook page:
www.facebook.com/L.ADental
Just click on "Schedule An Appointment" and follow the same instructions & don't forget to 'Like' our facebook page.

Say "NO!" to Tobacco

Many Americans believe that chewing tobacco isn’t bad for you but honestly it’s far from harmless! We want you to understand that all forms of tobacco contain a high concentration of cancer-causing agents. The practice of chewing and dipping tobacco and juices left behind; which stay in your mouth for a long period of time. This prolonged exposure gives tobacco users an increased risk of cancer; on the lip, cheeks, tongue, gums, the roof of your mouth and the bottom of your mouth. Smokeless tobacco also leads to unhealthy, uncomfortable, and serious dental issues, such as; loss of enamel; which causes sensitive teeth, pain, and tooth decay. Not only that but just like smoking tobacco, it causes you to have stain on your teeth and foul breath. It also damages your gum; which causes tooth loss.
Please take the first step to a healthier future. Feel free to ask us about any health alerts, and by
also coming in for your regular cleanings and oral cancer screenings!
We want to keep you smiling.
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Reason #6

Reasone #6 of why you should get your cleanings;

Know You're Doing it Right, Maintain Your Oral Health.

Our mouth plays a big role in your body. You do one of the most important things in life with your mouth; which is eat and drink, not only that but you smile, kiss and so on too. As I've mentioned before if you have a diseased mouth, you start to have bad breath all the time, your taste changes drastically causing you not to enjoy eating anymore. When things like these start to happen you start to have a low self esteem and become insecure of your mouth.

A diseased mouth is caused by not eating healthy, not getting your regular cleanings, drugs, not brushing your teeth as many times as you should. These cause your mouth to have bacteria and/ or infection build up. Since your mouth is connected to nerves and blood system just like any other part in your body, when you drink or eat, all that bacteria and infection gets swallowed into your stomach and blood system which causes twice the problem in the future.

We want you to know all these things because we want all of our patients to have a great oral health, healthy body and a healthy long life.

Reason #5 of Why you should get your dental cleanings.

#5-Detect dental problems early.

Many people in the world feel that their teeth & gums are not a top priority and are not a big deal. Believe it or not they are a very important essence of your body. You speak, smile, eat, drink, and so on with it. When you don't mantain your oral health, you have bad breath, bad taste and recession on your gums.

When we detect a cavity, it may cost you a hundred or so to fix the cavity. When you think it's not a big deal and just leave it alone because either you think it's too pricey or you don't feel like nothing needs to be done the cavity will proceed to grow out of anything. We want you to be aware that any issue in your mouth will get worse not better if not taken care of in time. Over time cavity grows bigger and deeper attacking your tooth's nerve causing bacteria and infection to grow, at that point instead of costing one hundred dollars, it costs over one thousand dollars to fix it.

We want you to keep all your teeth because once you loose your natural teeth, it is not the same to have artificial teeth.

We always advice our patients to come in for their regular check ups because we want to make sure everything is taken care of and we can do the best we can to prevent any problems to start or grow in your mouth. That's why we're here, the super hero for your teeth and gums:)

Thanks for reading our blog, follow up with us for Reason #6.

Why you should get your teeth cleaned. Reason #4

Reason #4= Preserve Your Smile:)

Your smile can determine your overall hygiene. As in the previous blogs, when you don't get your cleanings as often as you should it can cause serious conditions. In some cases conditions develop more quickly while in other cases it can take many years to develop. We want you to mantain your teeth and gums healthy. We don't want you to loose your teeth or bone or have any defect caused by gingivitis(gum disease). Your smile can last for a really long time if you take care of it properly. Dentistry can be costly but it is worth it because your mouth is the key to your overall health. Think about it you drink, talk, smile, eat, kiss, ect with your mouth, now imagine having a diseased mouth, you won't be able to enjoy none of those anymore due to bad odor, bad taste, and so on.

Let's prevent all this and have you come in for your cleaning and a step closer to a long lasting smile.

Smile Makeover August 2011

Smile makeover.

Santos Nunez


Santos was born and raised in El Salvador. As a young boy he enjoyed doing activities with his friends, especially playing soccer. As a side job he would work at a bakery shop. Life in El Salvador was not what he expected as an adult; so he came to the United States in 1981 to fulfill his American dream. He started off by working in a computer shop. Today he is a janitor for buildings, and is married with two daughters.

As a young boy he never took importance of his teeth. He felt his teeth weren’t a priority and is not an important matter when you only have so much money to budget for. His teeth today has impacted him when he started working for buildings, he is always around people and talking to them. It brings down his self esteem and confidence since he always feels people stare at his teeth not him. He grew to realize how important his teeth can determine someone. He has tried doing some treatment before but never had enough money to complete any of it, due to his responsibilities as a head household married man.

After reviewing his case, we felt he was the right one and it would really benefit him in many ways. Upon telling him he was chosen to be a part of our smile makeover, he jumped with excitement. He couldn’t believe his dream smile was going to come true.

He feels the smile makeover is going to change his life and how he feels. He is going to regain confidence and won’t be afraid to smile, talk or be around anybody anymore. Now he won’t be embarrassed rather prideful of his brand new teeth. He said he would feel embarrassed to even talk but now with his smile makeover, he is going to show off his smile to the whole wide world!

Congratulations Santos from LA Dental Staff!

Reason #3, Why you should get your teeth cleaning regurlarly.

3. Goes Beyond Your Teeth, helps maintain good health.

Apart from your teeth being connected to your gums and mouth. Your teeth have a pulp that connects to little veins that run through your oral mouth and just like other parts of our body it is connected to main veins and blood.
Let me give you an example.. When you have an open wound and don't take care of it, there are chances it may get infected, if it gets infected and you don't take care of it, that infection will start to grow and get into your blood system and make a worser problem. Believe it or not, something small can become big.
It's the same thing as if there was an infection in one of your teeth.
When you have gingivitis, infection or what not, it causes your taste buds to change. It changes the way the food taste. Which means that you can't enjoy eating like you used to.
Think about it, when your mouth is not at it's best condition, you can't enjoy eating, drinking, kissing, ect.
We want you to enjoy everything and not have an issue. That's why we want you to maintain a good oral health.

Reason #2

#2 Help Fight Gum Disease.

Gum Disease is one of the most common conditions in the world. When you come in for your regular hygiene appointments, dentist/hygienist use instruments and medication that help scrape up any plaque and/or tartar build up that your brush or teeth can not take off on it's own. When you don't go to your dental appointments the plaque(bacteria) starts feeding off sugar, food, anything that may get stuck in between your teeth. Your gum starts to get redish and become puffy which gives bacteria easier access to get under your gums. As time proceeds that plaque turns into tartar, hard particles, that become tougher to remove. Over time this tartar starts to eat up your gum and bone, which is the reason why people get recession(tooth looks longer) and bone loss. All this symptoms causes you to have loose teeth and eventually your teeth will start falling off on their own.
That is another reason why we emphazise our patients to come in for their cleanings. We want to prevent you from dealing with conditions like these. It lowers your self esteem and is 10 times more costly to restore your smile at that point.

Stay in tune for the 3rd reason..

10 Reasons To Get your teeth cleaned.

‎Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Get Your Cleanings
Lets Start off with Reason #1:

1. Helps in Preventing Oral Cancer
Every time you come in for a new patient exam or even for your regular check up, you are always screened for oral cancer. According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, a patient dies every hour of every day from oral cancer. This is one of the main reasons why we always emphazise for you to come in regurlarly so if there was any possibility of oral cancer growth. It would be caught at an early stage which there would be a possibility to cure it.

Dental Risk Factors

What Do we look at when doint an exam??
Sometimes people think that dentist are just looking for cavities in their mouth. However, here at Los Angeles Dental, we take a much more wholistic approach to your teeth. We realize that your teeth are attached to your head and your head is attached to the rest of you so we want to make sure we address you as a whole person.
That's why we look at dental health from four different areas of risk
1. - Risk of decay - If you are someone who always has 7 new cavities when you go to the dentist, or if you drink 3 cans of soda per day, you are at high risk for dental decay. You may not have any new cavities, but just based on your habits and your previous history we like to take an aggressive approach to make sure you dont' get any new cavities. Things like fluoride treatments, frequent cleanings and not just "watching" those discolorations in your teeth that could become full blown cavities in the future. These are low cost ways to prevent the high pain and high costs things like root canals in the future.

By being more aware of you as a whole person and taking into account your history, habits , medications etc... we can help you prevent more complicated dental work in the future.

I will discuss the next 3 risk factors in our next posts.
Have a great day.

Healthy Gums

Healthy Gums

Having a straight and white smile is a lot of patients’ ideal goal for confidence and feeling attractive. As dentists we know that there is something more than just having straight, white teeth but healthy gums to keep them in place. Beautiful teeth can sustain themselves if healthy gums support them.
Most people appreciate and understand the importance of brushing and flossing their teeth twice a day and coming to their hygiene appointments regularly.
It is very important to properly clean your teeth and feel encouraged to maintain healthy gums. Flossing is needed to remove any bacteria that may get stuck in between your teeth, where your brush can’t reach. Feel free to ask us for a refresher on proper brushing and flossing, or other options available to help maintain a healthy smile.

New Team Member

We would like to welcome Ravi Pathak to our LA Dental Team. Ravi is originally from the Fiji Islands, born and raised. He came into our office as an extern student, earning credits for his college degree. He worked hard and got hired to continue is great service to our patients.

He helps Dr. Nasiry and Quinn maintain the patients calm and comfortable during their dental visit. He also makes sure that each patient knows and understand the treatment personally created for them. One of his main priorities is making sure everything is sterile as possible, from instruments to operatories.

Ravi enjoys traveling to different places and going to the beach. He also loves watching sports on T.V. and being sorrounded by friends and family.

"My main focus is to keep everyone comfortable and well informed of their dental treatment. I also make sure that everything is clean and sterile." says Ravi happily.

Welcome Ravi to the team! We wish you the best in your career.

Brand New Office!

There has been a big change here at
LA Dental!

As LA Dental started the process to remodel their office, the contractors wanted Dr. Nasiry to take two weeks off. Dr. Nasiry and the staff panicked, they didn’t want to close the office for that long; they wanted to still be able to see their patients and remodel the office at the same time. After their request was granted, they were able to take care of their patients and their dental needs. Even if it was a bit of a struggle to take care of the remodeling and the patients at the same time, LA Dental always has that magic thing to make everything run smooth. Dr. Nasiry and the staff felt this remodeling was going to take forever; it actually finished quicker then expected. After many meetings with designers/contractors and also making big trips to IKEA, Home Depot, and ECT. They were finally able to finish remodeling the office.

The new office allows LA Dental to make their patients feel more home-like and happy to
come back for more treatment, something that Dr. Nasiry has been aching to do
for years. Even though with her success of making patients feel calm during their
dental visit, she felt she needed that extra kick of having a welcoming look to
her dental practice.

“I have turned this office from an ancient office into a 21^st Century office” says Dr. Nasiry proudly. She just feels that everything deserves an upgrade now and then, so she was able to unveil a fresh new look for her office.

LA Dental would love for you to have a cup of coffee and take a look at the new office.