Wedgewood Complete Dentistry Blog

Your jaw is becoming a pain in the neck – literally. The constant clicking, tenderness when you chew, and pain that radiates all the way around your neck and down your shoulders, are constant and troubling. You see your dentist in Powell for help and get diagnosed with TMJ dysfunction. Finally, with the help of the team at Wedgewood Complete Dentistry, you get the pain relief you need, and the solution to the underlying jaw problem.

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Ever since you were a kid, you’ve been self-conscious about your smile. The gap in the front, along with your crowded and rotated teeth on the bottom, have made you learn to grin with your lips closed to keep your dental imperfections hidden as much as possible. But now that you’re a successful business owner, you’re finally ready to get the perfect smile you deserve. You want to straighten your teeth, but traditional metal braces will only call more attention to your flaws. What options do you have? With Invisalign from your dentist in Powell, you can achieve the straight, healthy teeth you’ve been longing for. Learn why this option is the clear winner over braces from the team at Wedgewood Complete Dentistry.

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You know how painful it can be to have a weak tooth in your smile. Imagine tons of sensitivity and uneasiness every time you attempt to enjoy your food. It’s not fun. What’s even worse is waiting days—even weeks at a time—for a dental crown to help re-stabilize your tooth. Luckily, your dentist in Powell has invested into Wedgewood Complete Dentistry with CEREC technology. Our innovative office is able to completely change the way we approach restorative and cosmetic dentistry by placing dental crowns in one single appointment. Since this is a new, revolutionary part of dentistry, you may have some questions. We’re happy to address them for you.

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Are you experiencing headaches, toothache pain, or jaw joint dysfunction, or are one or more teeth missing or failing? Is your smile damaged so extensively that you don’t even know which problem is the most important? You may be a candidate for full mouth reconstruction with your skilled dentist in Powell, Dr. Ryan Eskridge or Dr. Norman Straker. More than a simple smile makeover, full mouth reconstruction restores not only your personal appearance and oral health but also the very structure and function of your smile.

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How many forms of pain does your TMJ disorder cause? Does it normally start with soreness in your jaw, then worsen into tooth pain? At times, your whole face has been in pain from your teeth all the way to your cheeks and ears. Sometimes it’ll even stretch to your neck, shoulders, and back. All of this pain can be caused because the function of your temporomandibular joints is off. Your dentist in Powell is here to help relieve these uncomfortable symptoms. At Wedgewood Complete Dentistry, Dr. Eskridge provides patients with much-needed relief as soon as possible.

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Your headaches are more than an occasional nuisance. They really hurt and are impacting your daily life. You wonder what can help. Your headaches could be related to TMJ Disorder, a common problem of the jaw joint under the ear. Used to open and close the mouth, the temporomandibular joint sometimes malfunctions, causing many symptoms which health care providers once thought were imagined. Your dentists in Powell, Dr. Ryan Eskridge and Dr. Norman Straker, offer real solutions for TMJ Disorder, giving patients much needed relief.

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For the past few months, you’ve felt exhausted. Initially, you thought it was just stress from work and taking care of your aging parents, but your wife’s jokes about how much you’ve been snoring lately make you wonder if something else is causing your sleep troubles. When you talk with your doctor, she orders a sleep study and you finally have your answer: obstructive sleep apnea. Your doctor prescribes a CPAP machine, but the tubes make you feel restricted and self-conscious, and your sinuses are frequently congested. You know sleep apnea is too deadly to leave untreated, but CPAP is not for you. Are there any alternatives that work just as well as a machine? Wedgewood Dental, your dentist in Powell, provides effective relief for this sleep disorder with custom oral appliance therapy.

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