Miami Cosmetic Dentistry Blog

Smoking, as you have probably been told, is not good for your body. However, it is even worse for dental implant patients. Smoking interferes with your circulation and with your body's healing response. It increases your risk of rejection of the implant and any bone graft that you may have had to support the implant.

If you are considering dentures, you may be thinking back to childhood memories of an older relative, whose dentures unpleasant. They clicked when he or she talked and may have made noises even when he or she was just sitting around, absent-mindedly thinking. They may have been so uncomfortable and dysfunctional that he or she removed them for eating. You don’t want that kind of dentures...

TMJ, or temporomandibular joint disorder, is when an imbalance in your jaw begins to have an adverse effect on other parts of your body, including your face, neck, back, and elsewhere. TMJ is sometimes called TMJD, TMD, TMDS, or other names. In fact, it has almost a dozen names because its symptoms are often so far-ranging and diverse that it...

Migraine headaches are among the most mysterious phenomena in medicine. For a condition suffered by nearly 30 million people in the US, migraine headaches remain poorly understood. We are not entirely sure why migraines occur, only what happens during a migraine. During a migraine attack, your brain chemistry changes. Most prominently, serotonin levels drop, and your trigeminal nerve releases...