Six tips for oral cancer prevention
Tomorrow, Saturday 4 February, is World Cancer Day, promoted by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). According to data provided by the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), 285,530 people were diagnosed with cancer in 2021 [...]
Preparing the tooth for veneers: myths and realities
Due to 'somewhat misleading' advertising in the dental sector in recent years, many patients insist in the dental office on "no-face veneers", i.e. the ultimate aesthetic treatment for the smile: veneers with which the tooth does not need to be treated at all in order to give it a radical makeover and a new look.
Incorrectly fitted crown, can it happen?
Let's start at the beginning. What is a dental crown? Although as an implantologist I often talk about and handle implant crowns, in reality a dental crown is a type of indirect restoration that is made to restore both function and aesthetics to a tooth, and are made when the integrity of the original tooth is damaged or lost.
Why pull a tooth?
Although if we think about dentistry decades ago, in the 70s and 80s, the first thing that comes to mind is the image we had of the dentist thanks to films and television, as a terrifying being with very large tongs that basically extracted teeth, the truth is that the dentist's image was that of a [...]
Fernando García Vélez instructs the youngest children at Virgen de Guadalupe
Dr. Fernando García Vélez, medical director of Vélez y Lozano, has given a talk to the 4 year olds at the Virgen de Guadalupe School, in which he explained basic questions about teeth and oral health. The children in this class are currently dealing this term with the anatomy of the body [...]
What material are dental implants made of?
As an implantologist dedicated exclusively to the placement of dental implants in Murcia, I am more than aware of this: it is always traumatic for a patient to have to lose a tooth. No matter the patient's profile, the most normal thing is that they try to avoid extraction at all costs. Afterwards, once the loss has been accepted, the [...]