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Written by the Aspenwood Dental Team Last updated: October 27, 2026 Table of Contents This post is general information, not advice for your own mouth. Ask your dentist whether it applies to you. Key Takeaways The signs that you may need a root canal are pain when you chew or bite, sensitivity to hot or …
Written by the Aspenwood Dental Team Last updated: October 27, 2026 Table of Contents This post is general information, not advice for your own mouth. Ask your dentist whether it applies to you. Key Takeaways The main downside of a dental bridge is what it asks of the teeth next to the gap. A traditional …
Medically Reviewed by Dr. Aaron Sun, Implant Dentist at Aspenwood Dental Associates & Colorado Dental Implant Center — serving Aurora and the greater Denver area for over 50 years. Key Takeaways Published figures for dental bone grafting sit high, and the largest recent dataset reports a clinical success rate of 97.83 percent. That number needs …
Key Takeaways Nobody pays for a full mouth restoration in one transaction. The people who get through it successfully do three things: they sequence the treatment so the urgent clinical work happens first, they get a written itemized plan they can put in front of a benefits administrator, and they combine more than one source …
Key Takeaways An average is close to useless here, and it is worth understanding why before you go looking for one. A crown quote covers a procedure whose scope changes depending on what is left of the tooth, what the crown is made of, whether other work has to happen first, and how your plan …
Medically Reviewed by Dr. Aaron Sun, Implant Dentist at Aspenwood Dental Associates & Colorado Dental Implant Center — serving Aurora and the greater Denver area for over 50 years. Key Takeaways Usually a portion of it, if you have a dental plan. Extractions generally sit in the basic or oral surgery category rather than the …
Medically Reviewed by Dr. Aaron Sun, Implant Dentist at Aspenwood Dental Associates & Colorado Dental Implant Center — serving Aurora and the greater Denver area for over 50 years. Key Takeaways There is no single number, and any page that gives you one is describing a procedure you may not be having. What people call …
Written by the Aspenwood Dental Team | Reviewed by Dr. Aaron Sun, DDS Key Takeaways The timing answer is settled. The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry advises that a child should be seen when the first tooth appears or no later than the first birthday, whichever comes first. That is early enough to surprise most …
Written by the Aspenwood Dental Team | Reviewed by Dr. Aaron Sun, DDS Key Takeaways Work out first whether this is a hospital problem or a dental problem. Swelling that is closing your airway or making it hard to swallow, swelling spreading toward your eye or down your neck, bleeding you cannot stop with steady …
Written by the Aspenwood Dental Team | Reviewed by Dr. Aaron Sun, DDS Key Takeaways Think about a painting you love. Now imagine it hanging in a frame that’s crooked, too thick on one side, or the wrong proportion for the canvas. The painting didn’t change but something feels wrong. You can’t quite look past …
Written by the Aspenwood Dental Team | Reviewed by Dr. Aaron Sun, DDS Key Takeaways If you’ve ever gotten a dental bill that looked nothing like the estimate, your skepticism is completely valid. And if you’ve been putting off your smile because you’re not sure what it’ll actually cost — or whether “affordable cosmetic dentistry” …
Key Takeaways You know the routine. The adhesive in the morning. The mental list of foods you’ve quietly stopped ordering. The way you hold your expression is just a little more careful when something is genuinely funny. You’ve been getting by —and you’ve gotten good at it. But getting by isn’t the same as living …
