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5 Simple Ways To Avoid A Cracked Tooth

Cracked teeth can be painful, unattractive, and costly to repair, especially if you need emergency dental care. Today’s post in the Marcos Ortega DDS San Diego dental blog contains an easy-to-follow list of tips to keep your teeth whole and strong. Don’t chew on hard things. People should steer clear of ice, hard candies, hard […]

3 Smart Smile Solutions

Beautiful Smile, Cosmetic Dentistry

San Diego dentist, Dr. Marcos Ortega, provides the latest in high-comfort cosmetic dentistry treatments. He is dedicated to providing his patients with the latest advances in cosmetic dentistry, sedation dentistry and general dentistry. Thinking of a smile makeover? – 3 innovative procedures used in smile redesigns: Tooth Implants Tooth implants are altering the face of dentistry. […]

Gum Disease Linked To Alzheimer’s: Keep Those Gums Healthy!

Gum Disease

Marcos Ortega DDS in San Diego offers quality dental care that covers both general and cosmetic dentistry. He can help you keep your gums healthy with routine hygiene appointments, and treat your gum disease with periodontal laser treatment. Periodontal disease, also called gum disease, is an inflammation or infection of the gums. Risk factors for periodontal […]

Do I Floss My New Tooth Implant?

Dental health, Dental Implants

This message from Marcos Ortega DDS in San Diego CA is about caring for a dental implant. Before you got an implant, hopefully, you were brushing at least twice a day and flossing daily. If you wore dentures, you should have been cleaning them with a denture paste and brushing the soft tissues in your […]

7 Steps For A Healthy Smile

Dental health, General Dentistry

This post from Marcos Ortega DDS in San Diego looks at getting and keepinng dental health. When Benjamin Franklin said “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” nearly three hundred years ago, he meant fire safety. But like all timeless quotes, it applies to much of modern life, particularly dental health. Keeping […]

Retaining Brightness After Teeth Whitening Treatment

Cosmetic Dentistry, Teeth Whitening

When you enhance your smile with teeth whitening treatment from Marcos Ortega DDS in San Diego, you want the results to last as long as possible. Unfortunately, the same things that stained your teeth before the treatment can stain them afterward. To help slow down the process, we have some useful recommendations. Do’s First, rinse […]

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