Maintaining a healthy white smile requires more than regular brushing, flossing, and dental visits. I t is important be mindful about what foods and drinks can stain our teeth. In general, foods and beverages with intense coloring can leave stains on teeth due to their chromogen content – a pigment-producing substance that can stick to
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St Lawrence Dentistry uses materials that offer outstanding aesthetics and high strength. Lithium disilicate glass-ceramic represents a unique material choice we provide to the Mississauga community. IPS Emax (made by Ivoclar Vivadent) is the brand used at St Lawrence Dentistry. It is composed primarily of quartz, lithium dioxide, phosphor oxide, alumina, and potassium oxide. Overall,
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The type of dental filling material and placement technique affects the quality of your dental work. For our patient’s wellbeing and outstanding cosmetic results, Dr. Hawryluk Jr. uses the latest generation of dental filling products available. Dr. Hawryluk Jr. has partnered with the dental material company GC for over a decade and has placed thousands
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Chao Pinhole Technique The Chao Pinhole Technique, also known as Pinhole Gum Rejuvenation was invented and patented by John Chao DDS. It is a scalpel free, graft free, suture free, minimally invasive procedure for correcting recession and saving teeth. Through a small hole made by a needle, specially designed instruments are used to loosen the
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There are different kinds of dentist based on their field of specialization – family dentist, cosmetic dentist, oral surgeons, and a lot more. Usually, a typical family will have a family dentist that will take care of all the primary dental care of all members of the family. The family dentist will help parents keep
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Everyone wants to have a perfect smile – one that will captivate people who see you anywhere, regardless if they don’t know you. And not many people are gifted with such kind of natural smile but with the development in technology in dental medicine, one is able to achieve a smile that exudes
read morePearly whites is a term that people use when they talk about great looking teeth, but how can this term be deemed accurate if your teeth are nowhere near “pearly” in looks? Teeth that are white can be had by those who take good care of their teeth, as well as by those who have
read moreWhen you lose a tooth, or a few teeth for that matter, you will be presented with a few options for replacing these. Depending on whether or not you are eligible for it, one of the options you might find considering is a dental implant. Another option that you will also be presented with is
read moreWhitening your teeth is a great way to improve your smile, and subsequently, how you look as well as feel about yourself. This can be done a number of ways, with some of these methods being done at home, and some of these being done by dental professionals. Which ones do you think are best
read moreIt’s not unusual to see people nowadays have braces on their teeth. At the right age, teenagers are fitted with dental braces due to various orthodontic problems such as misaligned jaw, out-of-place teeth eruptions, having crooked teeth In the United States, statistics showed that more than 4 million people wear dental braces, 25% of which
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A tongue cleaner (also termed a tongue scraper or tongue brush) is an oral health tool intended to clean the...
The cornerstone of Dr. Hawryluk Jr's dental practice is the Global Dental Microscope. It is well established that microscopy is...
In Mississauga, we have many brands of toothpaste available to us. However, at St. Lawrence Dentistry, some of our valued...
A crown or "cap" covers a tooth or a dental implant. Dr. Hawryluk often recommends crowns to support broken, weak,...
St. Lawrence Dentistry recognizes the link between oral and total body health. Therefore, we make concerted efforts to treat periodontal...
Oil pulling is a practice in which dietary oil is whizzed around one's mouth and then spit out. Unfortunately, there...
