An Easy Way to Improve Your Health…Just Smile
Research indicates that just by simply smiling you will bring significant changes to your physical and emotional health as well as your bank account. The first thing that smiling does is to improve our attitude. It is hard to be angry or depressed with a smile on your face. Try it yourself when you are […]
Consumer Awareness Guide to Choosing An Orthodontist
Choosing an Orthodontist for you and your family is one of life’s biggest decisions. Your smile and overall dental health will be improved forever if you take the time to research and learn more about orthodontics and its lifetime benefits for you and your family. Our purpose in creating this guide is to help educate […]
The Ultimate Orthodontic Dilemma: To extract teeth or not
For more than 75 years, doctors have debated the issue of extracting permanent teeth in orthodontic treatment. Today, the profession is still somewhat divided. There are those who believe teeth should never be removed and those who extract in a majority of cases. Most orthodontists, however, fall somewhere in between these two extremes. In our […]
How Important is Sleep to Your Child’s Health?
I know you are thinking, what does orthodontics have to do with sleep? We hope to educate our parents and patients about overall health and how it relates to growth and development of your teeth and jaws. There is mounting evidence that indicates that sleep has beneficial effects on learning, memory, attention, emotional regulation and […]
The Choices in Braces Today
As a practicing Orthodontist for over 26 years, there have been many changes in the types of braces available to help patient achieve their goals of healthy and beautiful smiles. When I graduated from my Orthodontic Specialty residency, the only braces that were available for patient were metal ones that used silver ties to hold […]
Why Do I Have to Wear Retainers Forever?
This is a question we get asked often, so we thought it would be good to educate everyone on why retainers are so important. Whether you had metal braces, clear braces or removable Invisalign aligners, you will need to wear retainers. At first you may be required to wear them 12-22 hours per day. This […]
A New Location!?
After 14 years in Penn Valley, we decided it was time to move to a newer facility and be more available to our patients in Grass Valley, Nevada City, Colfax, Chicago Park and Auburn. Our new orthodontics office is located at 1364 Whispering Pines Lane, Suite 1 in Grass Valley. We are right across the […]
Attention Invisalign Patients! No More Messy Impressions That Make You Gag!
In our quest to always be at the forefront of Modern Orthodontics, we now have a new technology in our Rocklin office that will allow us to take a series of photos of your teeth using a specialized intraoral camera. The system is called the “iTero” and has been used in General Dentistry for quite […]
Grandmom Has Braces!
Yes it is true, more and more adults are having their teeth aligned with braces as well as clear aligners. There are several reasons why braces for adults are becoming more popular. Many of these adults had braces as teenagers and either stopped wearing or lost their retainers that were given to them at the […]
Is It Time To Rethink Braces For Your Teen?
Most teenagers realize that their smile can be improved greatly through Orthodontics and up until the past 4-5 years have had only one choice….fixed braces and wires. Now with Invisalign Teen, teenagers do not need to have fixed braces placed on their teeth during their most self-conscious years and can still achieve a beautiful, healthy […]
