What makes up a perfect smile? White teeth? Straight teeth? Teeth with pleasing proportions relative to one another? A stunning smile is more than the sum of its parts. At Crabtree Dental in Katy, we believe that your perfect smile also contains another element—your unique personality. What is a smile makeover? It is a combination…
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Don’t Put Off Your Dental Exam
No matter what age you are, the team at Crabtree Dental encourages you to maintain dental health. You should see us for a cleaning and checkup every six months. That way, you stay ahead of any potential dental issues. Knowledge is Power Dental exams are often put off because they can be seen as unnecessary.…
Terrific Tooth Tips From Crabtree Dental
At Crabtree Dental in Katy TX, we like to share useful information about dentistry to help each of our patients maintain dental health. So without further ado, here are some useful and terrific tooth tips. If you have kids and your municipal water supply does not have the recommended level of fluoride, talk to your…
When Wayward Teeth Take A Crooked Path
Categories: Dental health, General dentistry
Malocclusion is dental-speak for crooked teeth. When you think about all the different ways numerous 3-dimensional objects can be aligned, it is not surprising that malocclusion occurs in numerous forms. We see it all the time at Crabtree Dental in Katy TX. The number of configurations may surprise you: When teeth slant forward, it is…
Three Reasons Not to Skip a Dental Checkup
Life gets busy. Sometimes it seems impossible to keep up with everything you “gotta do”. At Crabtree Dental in Katy TX, we understand that. But we encourage you to think twice before you cancel or postpone a dental checkup because you think it’s less important than the other twenty items on your to-do list. Twice-yearly…
3 Reliable Steps To Find The Best Katy, Texas Dentist
Categories: Crabtree Dental, Dental health
Looking for the best dentist in Katy? You can click around on the computer or watch for postcard ads in your mailbox. Even then, the outcome is shaky at best. Finding the best dentist in Katy truly hinges on what you are looking for. Are you looking for consistent, professional evaluation? Are you looking for…
Keep Teeth Healthy During Pregnancy
If you are pregnant, your oral health may be the last thing on your mind. However, many women experience an increase in dental problems during pregnancy. Today’s post from the dentist at Crabtree Dental in Katy TX contains essential information about oral health for expectant mothers, and those planning to become pregnant. We recommend having…
Missing Teeth and Dental Implants
It’s a deceptively simple idea: replace a missing tooth by attaching an artificial one directly to the patient’s jaw. It’s an idea that has been around for a thousand years or more, but in the last half century, it has become an exact science. Dental implants are one of the specialties offered at Crabtree Dental…
What Can The Dentist Do For You?
Hello, and welcome to the Crabtree Chronicles, the blog of Crabtree Dental in Katy TX. Our team of dentists works hard to keep the teeth and gums of each of our patients healthy. Teeth may seem like bone, but they are actually living structures. Inside that hard exterior is complex system of tissue. And the…
Small Dental Annoyance Or Serious Problem?
In this Crabtree Chronicles post, we are going to talk about stomatitis. As your Katy dentist explains, stomatitis is the proper term for something very common: non-specific irritations found in the mouth. Stomatitis is ordinarily caused by cold sores, gum disease, or even from biting the inside of the mouth (ouch!). Any time the membranes…
