Skillman Family Dentistry Blog

Insurance can always be a little bit tricky to navigate, and dental insurance in particular often leaves patients scratching their heads. In addition to all the rules and provisions you may be used to from your medical coverage, dental plans tend to have other rules that can catch patients off guard.

Knowing how best to make use of your dental coverage is important if you’re trying to effectively take care of your oral health. Here are a few things you should know about how you can use your dental plan most effectively.

Your appearance can change significantly as you age. Wrinkles and gray hair aren’t the only signs of aging. Your teeth can show the passing of time. The natural aging process can affect your smile in many ways, but your cosmetic dentist has the solutions you need to turn back the clock.

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Halloween is a season for everything spooky, but if you aren’t careful, the scariest thing come November could be your smile.

Between sweets and Halloween parties, there are quite a few ways that your teeth could suffer this October. If you’re careful, however, you can get through spooky season with your teeth relatively unscathed. Here are a few things you may want to keep in mind.

Ah, coffee, the drink so delightful that the Pope had to give consent to drink it when it first came to Venice. While drinking this brewed bean drink is no longer a cardinal sin, it can still be detrimental to your oral health in a number of ways.

National Coffee Day is on September 29^th, so continue reading to learn how you can prepare to observe the holiday without damaging your teeth.

If you’re like many Americans, Saturday morning cartoons might have taught you much of what you know about dental sedation. While these animated shorts might be funny, they are usually about as factual about laughing gas as they are about farm animals talking and wearing clothes while surviving massive head injuries. Laughing gas, properly known as nitrous oxide, is perfectly safe when administered under medical supervision. Here are a few facts to set the record straight about this widely understood form of medicine.

If you have a fractured tooth or cavity, your dentist might recommend a filling or crown. While these two restorative services are both great options for repairing teeth, it’s often better to use one over the other. At the end of the day, your dentist’s recommendation is the best option for you. That being said, it’s important to recognize the difference between crowns and fillings to know what to expect. Here’s which restorative service is right for you.

Dental crowns are versatile, durable dental restorations capable of dealing with all kinds of oral health problems. They look and feel incredibly natural, making them a common choice for patients who want to repair severely damaged teeth.

Having a dental crown placed requires removing a little bit of the natural enamel, which means that when a dental crown is close to failure, it needs to be replaced with another one to continue protecting the tooth. Here are a few signs that you may need to make that replacement soon.

When temperatures start to climb, there’s nothing better than taking a dip in whatever pool you can find. For the most part, dentists don’t have the same problem with swimming that they do with other sports—however, there are still some things that you may want to be cautious about if you want to prevent dental emergencies.

If you’re planning to spend time at the pool this summer, here are a few things you may want to keep in mind.

In an ideal world, you would never have to worry about needing emergency dental care. Sadly, reality is often far from ideal; cracked teeth and other urgent dental issues can occur all too easily, and they can strike at virtually any time. If you don’t have dental insurance, then being aware of what options are available when an emergency occurs is absolutely vital. Below are 4 important things you need to know about getting emergency dental care while uninsured.

Missing some or all of your teeth can make it challenging to perform some of the simplest daily tasks, such as chewing, talking clearly, and smiling with confidence. One of the most popular ways to restore your pearly whites is with durable and lifelike dentures. While you can enjoy many benefits with these prosthetics, there’s lots of misinformation that cast a poor light on them. Here are four myths about dentures and what you should actually expect from the treatment.