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Dr. Jack Craig Stewart

Dentist

Dr. Jack Stewart is a Dentist practicing in Lansing, Kansas. Dr. Stewart specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases and conditions associated with the mouth and overall dental health. Dentists are trained to carry out such treatment as professional cleaning, restorative, prosthodontic, and endodontic procedures, and performing examinations, among many others.
Dr. Jack Craig Stewart
  • Lansing, Kansas
  • University of Tennessee
  • Accepting new patients

What are natural ways to deal with tooth sensitivity?

Try Sensodyne toothpaste in sensitive areas. Go to a dentist if this does not work.

My tooth in the back is half broken, what should I do?

Go to a dentist to see if the nerve is exposed. If it is, the tooth needs to be extracted or get a root canal if the tooth can be restored. If $ is a question, extract it. The READ MORE
Go to a dentist to see if the nerve is exposed. If it is, the tooth needs to be extracted or get a root canal if the tooth can be restored. If $ is a question, extract it. The tooth could possibly be restored, if the nerve is not exposed.

Biting down on side of cheek when eating

Let an orthodontist check you out to see if your teeth have moved, preferably the one who put you in braces. You could have your dentist grind the outside cusps of the molars READ MORE
Let an orthodontist check you out to see if your teeth have moved, preferably the one who put you in braces. You could have your dentist grind the outside cusps of the molars that biting your cheek which may or may not be permanent fix.

Food getting stuck behind wisdom teeth

You may have to get the flap over the teeth surgically removed. After this use an air flosser(sonicare) or a water pic to get food and get keep it out. Afterwards irrigate with READ MORE
You may have to get the flap over the teeth surgically removed. After this use an air flosser(sonicare) or a water pic to get food and get keep it out. Afterwards irrigate with hydrogen peroxide with a syringe with light pressure. Let bubble debris out then rinse out with water.

What is a dry socket?

A dry socket is caused by failure of a blood clot forming or not forming completely. The socket where the tooth once was is actually open denuded bone which is very painfully. READ MORE
A dry socket is caused by failure of a blood clot forming or not forming completely. The socket where the tooth once was is actually open denuded bone which is very painfully. Treat with a dressing soaked and dried off placed in the socket. You treat till the pain leaves which may require dressing changes. Healing will not occur until you are pain free and the dressing is removed. This the only way to treat this consitently.

Skin is shedding on the inside of my mouth (my cheeks). Is this normal?

Change your toothpaste but without some of the ingredients in your present toothpaste. Check with an allergist or an oral pathologist.