Dental insurance plans are unique and sometimes confusing! Each policy offers slightly different benefits. It’s important to connect with an experienced dentist who accepts your insurance and whose office staff can help you maximize dental services based on your available benefits. It’s important to note that dental benefits typically expire every year. While some plans… Read More »
How Do I Take Care of My Dental Implants?
Dental implants offer a far superior tooth replacement option when compared to traditional dentures or bridges. Dentures often slip and move around, which is uncomfortable, reduces chewing power, and increases bone loss. Dental implants, on the other hand, provide patients with a secure foundation to maintain removable dentures or to secure permanent dentures or crowns…. Read More »
All-on-4 Implants versus Dentures
When your dental health is compromised to the point where you’re missing all your teeth or the few remaining teeth you have are so seriously damaged as to need extraction, you may assume the only next step is to have dentures created. At Uptown Cosmetic & Implant Dentistry, we beg to differ. Dr. Velasco feels… Read More »
Better Teeth through Electricity
Sure, we give our patients a trusty toothbrush when they visit our Houston offices. But we’d be happy to give up that, and maybe give you more floss instead. It’s not that we don’t love the toothbrush and want you to brush for two minutes twice each day. It’s that we’d like you to switch… Read More »
Four Common Myths About Porcelain Veneers
At Uptown, Dr. Velasco is a big fan of porcelain veneers. They are a great cosmetic solution to issues with your teeth affecting their appearance. Your teeth could be stained from a reaction to tetracycline when you were a child. You could have a chip or a crack in one or two teeth. You may… Read More »
Five Reasons You’re a Great Candidate for All-on-4 Dental Implants
If you’re missing a bunch of teeth, if most of your teeth on an arch are badly damaged or decayed, or if you have dentures that slip and are troublesome, odds are you’ve thought about dental implants. A dental implant is used to replace a missing tooth. The implant gets its name from the titanium… Read More »
Keeping An Eye Out For Oral Cancer
During your twice-yearly exams with us at Uptown Cosmetic & Implant Dentistry, we want you to leave our Houston offices with sparkling teeth. But we have goals beyond that. Sure, removing tartar and plaque and polishing your teeth are important. But even more important is our examination for the signs of oral cancer. That’s why… Read More »
Can You Print a Dental Implant?
We’ve all heard of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing. It seems mind-boggling in some ways, as the process takes a digital file and then “prints” the data layer by layer until the object is now a three-dimensional item. The process is called “additive” because the printer lays down successive layers of material until… Read More »
Five Ways a New Smile Can Improve Your Love Life
Sometimes people can discount the value in having certain dental procedures performed. Their thinking can be twofold. First, they’re my teeth and tooth enamel is as hard as a rock, so what’s going to happen? Second, who’s looking at my smile anyway? What’s a gap for a missing tooth or a snaggle tooth going to… Read More »
New Smile for a New Year with Porcelain Veneers
After the year we just had, we all deserve to treat ourselves to a little something, you know, for the effort! Dr. Velasco thinks you deserve a new smile for the New Year, and we can give you just that with the application of porcelain veneers. Porcelain veneers are thin shells of porcelain that are… Read More »
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