Each type of crown has inherent advantages (great strength, excellent cosmetics, durability, etc…),
and therefore typically excels in providing some types of benefits while possibly being quite mediocre in providing others.

We’ve created some new graphics that help to explain the advantages and disadvantages of different types of crowns (all-ceramic, porcelain-fused-to-metal, and all-metal).

Use this link to access our Types of Crowns graphic.
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Use the links in that graphic to access our other new dental-crown graphics that discuss crown types individually.

The landscape is littered with past orthodontic patients who, at some later point, have allowed the alignment of their teeth to relapse. And, of course, it’s simply because they chose not to wear their retainers.

At least a part of this failure can have to do with the fact that the type of retainer chosen for them didn’t suit their needs or expectations.

We’ve created a number of new slide-show graphics that provide details about, and show examples of, the various types of dental retainers (fixed, Hawley, Essix). Using the following link, you’ll find the rest of the graphics easy enough.

What’s the best type of orthodontic retainer for you?
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We’re all for that. But it also seems that in doing so that it comes at the expense of needing to use more attachments and elastics (although we have no hard data about this supposition).

We absolutely do understand the convenience for the patient of having treatment using removable braces. But the use of attachments and elastics seems to rather negate the “invisible” aspect of this technique. We just wonder how many patients fully understand this beforehand?

Anyway, just so prospective patients have an clear idea of what to expect, we’ve added pictures of attachments and elastics to our content.

What are Invisalign® attachments and buttons?
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We’ve also mentioned this issue in this slide-show graphic.

What are the tip-offs that you’re wearing Invisalign®.

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We’re recently completed revamping our “Invisalign® disadvantages” section. On this page we’ve added a slide-show graphic that can help to give someone an idea of they types of orthodontic conditions that a removable-braces system
typically isn’t so adept in handling.

Here’s the link, look for the new graphic at mid-page level:
Invisalign® treatment limitations and considerations.
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We’ve recently added a number of new graphics to our Invisalign® pages that better explain what it’s like to have invisible braces treatment.

Look for these new graphics on these pages:
The Invisalign® system.
How noticeable are invisible braces?
What’s the process of getting Invisalign®?
How does Invisalign® work?
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Look for these new graphics on these pages:
What are Clear dental braces?
What are Gold dental braces?
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All of them are Flash graphics that operate like side shows. Some of them are informational, like explaining the pro’s and con’s of different types of orthodontic brackets (gold, ceramic, stainless). Others are just for fun. For example, one allows you to see how using different colored elastic ties on braces will look.

Look for our new graphics on these pages:
Personalizing metal dental braces.
Types of dental braces.
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A couple of years ago we created a pair of graphics that tried to nail down when most people get their wisdom teeth out. And after summer vacation, winter break seemed to be the second most utilized time period. This makes sense since most patients having this procedure performed are late high school or college age and therefore want to get their teeth removed when school is out.

Something else that makes sense is that we’ve noticed an increase in traffic to our page that discusses paresthesia (a nerve-damage complication sometimes associated with wisdom tooth removal). Obviously, that’s because during those times when more people are having their teeth out, a larger number of people will experience this complication.

In response to this increase in website traffic, and as a way of better explaining to people when this problem might occur, we’ve created a new graphic.

Here’s the link: Dental Paresthesia.
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An evaluation of this section’s statistics shows that these quizzes are utilized consistently throughout the school year but especially during February (National Children’s Dental Health Month).

Our logs also indicate that referral traffic to the quizzes comes from grade schools, dental assisting schools and even some institutions with dental hygiene programs. We hope that more instructors/teachers become aware of and utilize our quizzes.

Here’s the link: Animated-Teeth.com’s Dental quizzes for students of all ages.
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For example, this topic’s Home Page contains two new Flash graphics. One illustrates which molars are the wisdom teeth. The other shows the different classifications of impacted wisdom teeth.

Here’s the link: What are impacted wisdom teeth?
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