Dr. Virginia Chin, DDS

Hi, Thank you for asking this good question! It depends on several conditions but nor limited to the following;--The medical health of an individual, How long ago has a person missing his/her teeth. The amount of bone and the architecture of the implant sites. Under ALL ideal condition, you can have as many implant as necessary to be place at a single visit. In you case, three implants at one visit. However, When any of the conditions mentioned above is/are not ideal, you can not place all three at once time. For example , if there not enough bone width and/or bone height in any one, or all of your missing teeth area, or you may need a sinus lift procedure first, then you may need some bone grafting ( or augmentation ) procedures, prior to placing an dental implant. Hope that answer your question! God bless you !

Thank you for asking this good questions. I t is a mis-conception that deep will hurt your gum. The truth is that deep cleaning will only remove the infected part of the gum tissue. It is the infected soft tissue that is under constant bacterial assault and chronic inflamation. Once the source of irritants ( such as calcified plaque, also know as tartar ) are being removed in the process of deep cleaning, your gum will become healthy. Firm and no more bleeding. Deep cleaning can divides into two types. Non- surgical approach and surgical approach. In some adnvanced stage of gum desease, regular ( Non- surgiacl approach ) deep cleaning along will not reslove the problem. In those instance, a “surgical approach” of deep cleaning may be necessary to control and/ or stop the condition. In short, Deep cleaning will NOT damage gum.

Hi, Thank you for Asking the important Question! As soon as you have a root canal treatment complete and the tooth has no more symptom such as pain, swelling, pus nor biting pressure. Then you should have the final filling placed. I know that some dentists will place the filling and even prepare the tooth for a crown immediately right after the root canal treatment is completed on the very same visit. This can be very risky especially if there were still, pain, pus oozing from the gum area and swelling presence. These are the contraindications to put a filling on the very same visit. Dr. Chin

Answer: Thank you for asking this great question! As long as you have a good amount of and sounded bone, and if you DO NOT have any underlying healthy condition, such as osteoporosis, non-controllable diabetes and/ or high blood pressure, recent organ transplant surgery or active gum disease, then it is your own preference to get an implant for a front tooth. Assuming you have no any healthy conditions mentioned above, then implant is a good choice. Unlike a conventional fixed dental prosthesis ( also known as bridge), in which the patient will sacrifice a minimum of two adjacent teeth in order to have a fixed bridge to replace one missing front tooth. The advantage of have a single unit dental implant front tooth is that the adjacent teeth will be spare from being trimmed down in the preparation stage. I hope that this will be of helpful to you!

Hi, Thank you for asking! This is a great question. Many people stop brushing their teeth as soon as they notice that their gum bleeds. Usually, the bleeding gum is resulted from lack of proper throughrough cleaning ( i.e. flossing and brushing), where plaque accumulated under and around the gum. If you notice that that your gum keep bleeding during brushing for more than a couple of weeks, one should go to his/her dentist and check out what is the fundamental cause. DO NOT delay to make a dental appointment. Let the Dentist perform the exam and he/she will provide you with a good diagnosis and treatment plan to stop the bleeding gum situation! Hope this will help ! Blessings to you!

Hello, Thank you for asking the question! It depends on how many dental implant(s) you are going to receive and how complicated the surgery may be. Every patient response to the implant surgery somewhat differently!If you have ONE OR TWO implant(s) placement, it is not very painful. Under normal circumstance, the surgical site will be sore for a couple of days from the incision and sutures. You shall be able to talk on the same day of the implant surgery. Most of time, the over the counter pain medication such as Ibuprofen, Advil and Tylenol will be enough to control the discomfort.However, if you are going to have multiple tooth extraction, bone grafting and multiple implants placement all performed at the same visit, you will have more and longer duration of pain, which will affect your talk. Hope that will help. God bless on your dental implant surgery!

Thank you for asking the question! Yes, You can drink through a straw with a temporary crown. In fact, you may even drink with cups or glass the usual ways you drink without using a straw.

Hi, Thank you so much for asking the questions! It really depends on how severe or what level of damage was your fixed dental bridge was. If it is the connection ( or the soldering joint) between the fix bridge is broken, then there is nothing to fix it except to replaced a new one. It it was only the porcelain portion chipped, there is really nothing much to " glue" the porcelain back neither. If you could submit some good quality photos of the broken bridge, hopefully I may be able to view it and give you some free advise. God bless !

Hi, The new dental materials has been improved so much better in the last decade. If you are going to have a crown on your front teeth, Please ask your dentist to prescribe you for Layered Zirconia crown if you are looking for a stronger material. Zirconia is much stronger than regular old-fashion all ceramic jacket crown. All the best

Hello, my young friend: First of all, I would like to thank you for bringing up this question to my attention! Your mouth/ tongue feel bitter after you swallow the sperm of a thirty years old man. There are quite a number of reason why your tongue turns to bitterness. Semen made up many different chemical compounds in it. Number one reason it taste bitter is that old friend's personal hygiene issue. If he didn't keep a good body hygiene in his private area, allowing sweat to stay around that area, it will affect the taste of his semen. Other important contributing factors includes, but not limited to, consumption of alcohol, smoking, use of drugs, certain kind of food, such as Asparagus, onion, garlic. If you tongue taste bitterness after that particular encounter event, then, if you want to get rid of the bitterness on your tongue, you may try to use several of the following remedies. (i) try to use about 0.5 - 1.0 oz of Vinagar to rinse you mouth a couple times a day for few days. Or (ii) use an over-the-counter mouth wash such as Listerine to rinse your mouth twice daily. (iii) brush you tongue after you brush your teeth. (iv) chew/ eat a few small wedges of fresh lemon, allowing the lemon pulp stay in your mouth, for just about a minute and swallow the lemon pulp. The best way to not to have the bitterness on you tongue is that I would strongly suggest you NOT try to swallow anyone else's semen from now on. If ,and only if, you want to do it again, then just swallow your own semen. Why? It is because semen from other people, like blood, can carry many blood-borne pathogen such as Sexually Transmitted Disease, including, but not limited to AIDS, Hepatitis, which is in-curable in today's medical technology. Your own blood and your own semen are " relatively safe and clean. The should be no foreign germs under normal circumstance. In fact, it will be even better that you should not be engage in oral sex with anyone else. Bacteria and viruses ( for example herpes ) can also be transmit from other people into your mouth during oral sex. God has given you a male body. Your body is still growing physically, mentally and emotionally. I would highly encourage you to learn to develop a normal and healthy social relationship with opposite sex. There many good sources you can learn how to develop a healthy relationship with female friends. If possible, I would really encourage you not to continue having the abnormal sexual behavior with another old boy/ man of the same sex. You can ask for help in school counselor, a medical doctors, or a clinical phycologist. I hope that this will help you and give you some positive advise ! Blessings to you !

Yes, Whether you have Invisalign or conventional Orthodontic treatment, one should wear the retainer(s) for a life time.

Under normal circumstance, the chance of having infection after dental implant is very un-usual. Assume that the dentist follow all OSHA regulation and protocol. and that the patient follow the proper post-operative instructions provided by your dentist. In some instance, your dentist may prescribe you with some antibiotics and prescription mouthwash. Please note that smoking and using tobacco products; consuming alcohol are common reasons causing post implant infection. Sometime, oral antibiotics may be needed

A single crown placement procedure normally takes about anywhere between 20 - 30 minutes if there is no other un-expected thing happens.

Nowadays, most of the dental implant can be placed with only local anesthetics. You don't need to go under general anesthesia unless (i) you are very apprehensive, or (ii) a medically compromised patient with other underlying health conditions.

Don't worry! It is absolutely normal that your gum swollen after deep cleaning. It is a normal healing process of your body. It is similar to having an operation of your body, no matter how small it is. Your body will swell up initially due to the accumulation of fluid at a cellular level. Your white cells are gathering around the treated area and start the process of repairing/ healing. The important things that you should do is to follow the post-operative instruction given to you by your dentist. Typically, it means that continue to floss, brush your teeth, using warm salt water rinse, prescription mouth wash, if your dentist prescribed. Some patients may even need to take some low dosage of Doxycycline 20mg for several months after the deep cleaning. If you teeth develop sensitivity to cold temperature, which is also common, then use either some over-the-counter or prescription tooth paste for such sensitivity!

Hi, If your tooth chipped and there is no sensitivity. congratulations ! It is NOt an emergency. However, if you chipped tooth is very sensitive and painful after the chipped, then it is an emergency. In the later case, you will need to contact your own dentist ASAP.

Yes, a tooth or teeth under a bridge can get infected. Usually, it could be a result of tooth decay , periodontal ( gum ) decease, root fracture, previously root canal therapy failure and others. Make sure that your dentist took an X-ray film of the involved tooth /teeth, established a correct diagnosis. Don't hesitate to get a second opinion from another dentist, or even from a dental specialist before you jump into the treatment.

The longer you wait to get your wisdom tooth/teeth out, the more likely that you may have more problems. For example, if your wisdom tooth has decay, it may continue to spread, not only to the wisdom tooth itself, but also to the adjacent teeth.

If your tooth has no physical and/radiographic pathology, then yes. It is okay to have a crown. In some other instance, if you tooth is diagnosed of being positively having a " Crack tooth Syndrome" at its early stage, then Yes, you should also have a crown to protect and prevent the crack from getting worsen. Other instance that you need a crown is that if you have an existing super large filling being placed on a tooth, you will also need to consider getting a crown to protect and prevent the tooth from further chipping/ breaking.

Under normal circumstances, a dental patient does not need antibiotics after gum pinhole surgery. However, if there is any other underlying healthy issue(s)such as immuno-compromised, un-control diabetes, artificial heart valves or hip/ knee replacement and etc.that a patient has, or the surgical site is not healthy and has an existing infection that has not been controlled yet, then this patient will need antibiotics.