What is a circuit breaker in orthodontics?
The disjunctor is an appliance that is placed in the palate and is used in interceptive orthodontics to correct the problems that a narrow palate (with differences between the size of the maxillary bone and the jaw) causes in growing children. This last point is important, as the disjunctor is only [...]
Guided implant surgery: the future of dentistry is 3D
The use of 3D is evolving at a dizzying pace, affecting a multitude of sectors and, of course, dentistry is no exception. In dental implantology, this revolution has its own name: guided surgery. How does it work? Guided surgeries are performed thanks to splints made of biocompatible resin [...]
Oral rehabilitation
Oral rehabilitation, although it sounds more like something a traumatologist or physiotherapist would do, is actually a dental treatment or, well, to be completely accurate, a set of treatments that we have called it. When is oral rehabilitation necessary? An oral rehabilitation is considered for patients whose [...]
My child doesn't want to brush his teeth, what should I do?
As a paediatric dentist, I hear the same problems more or less repeatedly from parents in the dentist's office. And, especially at younger ages and from first-time parents, I often hear: How do I get my child to brush his teeth? And it is the lack of routine, laziness but [...]
Ancillary beauty treatments
When we talk about dental aesthetics, the most common thing in the vast majority of cases is to think about treatments such as veneers or tooth whitening. And they are indeed the 'front line' of this speciality, being the most requested treatments and carried out in dental clinics all over the world, because of their [...]
Is there a cure for periodontitis?
As health professionals, from time to time we have to offer some unpleasant answers to our patients, and as an expert dentist in periodontitis at the Vélez y Lozano dental clinic, I am more than used to hearing in the office those affected by periodontal disease looking for and asking for a definitive solution to their problem, but because of [...]
