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Selecting the Ideal Oral Care Tools

Oral hygiene is pivotal to overall health, and the right tools are crucial for maintaining it. At Tulsa Precision Dental, Dr. Chris Vinson understands that choosing the appropriate oral care tools can be overwhelming, given the myriad available options. This guide is crafted to help you navigate the selection process, ensuring you have the best…

Oral Health Tips for Seniors and Caregivers

Aging gracefully encompasses more than just physical well-being; it includes maintaining a healthy and confident smile that resonates with the joy and wisdom that come with time. At Tulsa Precision Dental, a reputable dental clinic located in the vibrant city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, under Dr. Chris and Kristie Vinson’s esteemed leadership, we wholeheartedly understand seniors’…

What is Dentinogenesis Imperfecta? 

Many factors influence our oral health, including our dental hygiene practices and regular visits to the dentist. Genetics also play a role and can lead to conditions like Dentinogenesis Imperfecta (DI), affecting approximately 1 in 7,000 individuals. When facing oral health challenges, seeking support from a dentist is crucial to maintaining a healthy smile. Our…

A Complete Guide To Routine Dental Care

Good oral hygiene is a habit that’s often overlooked, but it shouldn’t be the case. Maintaining good oral health and hygiene doesn’t have to be time-consuming or expensive, and it has many benefits for your mouth and overall well-being. To keep your mouth healthy, the team at Tulsa Precision Dental has put together a complete…

Achieving Better Oral Health With Family Dentistry

Family dentistry provides many patients worldwide with better access to dental care and offers a variety of treatments to prevent the onset of oral health problems. Addressing these oral health problems through preventative measures makes achieving oral health possible, and families seeking to achieve better oral health can speak with their family dentist about their…

How Cosmetic Dentists Improve Tooth Sizes and Your Smile

When people hear the word cosmetics, they often think of Hollywood’s dazzling smiles. However, cosmetic dentistry involves much more than improving your smile’s appearance. While many Hollywood stars use cosmetic dentistry to improve their smile’s appearance, the procedures are far more involved. Cosmetic dentistry can change a person’s appearance and restore the person’s natural tooth…

What Are Dentofacial Deformities and How Are They Treated?

The term dentofacial deformity is an obscure one, and not many dentists often talk about this condition with their patients unless their oral health presents complications. In short, dentofacial deformities refer to alterations in the face from the normal tooth, jawline, and facial structure. These deformities tend to affect the person negatively, often contributing to…

Why More Men Should Recieve Cosmetic Dental Treatment

As the demand for cosmetic dentistry grows, social media has become one of the main driving forces behind this demand. However, a study conducted back in 2021 reported that women tend to participate and tweet more about cosmetic-related topics than men. Improving health literacy is a priority for everyone. In response to this, there has…

What is The Orthodontic Anchorage Control Technique?

Having orthodontic care done means your dentist will work with multiple techniques to ensure your teeth are controlled, moved, and straightened over time. One of the terms most commonly used and referred to by dentists is the term anchorage. Anchorage refers to the methods of controlling unwanted tooth movement through anchor sites throughout the mouth.…

What Does A Conservative Approach Mean in General Dentistry?

General dentists often rely on their judgment, education, and experience when treating their patients. Some of these cases end up with excessive amounts of tooth removal, even healthy tooth removal, that would be considered unnecessary by others, often resulting in wasted time, money, and further dental problems down the line. All dentists should approach their…

Exceptional Dental That Products Produce Exceptional Results

If there’s one thing that all craftsmen can agree on, it’s the importance of the quality of the tools they use in the results they get. It may seem odd to consider your dentist a craftsman, but there is as much art as science to dental restoration or cosmetic care. The ingredients they use in…

How Teledentistry Can Improve Access To Orthodontic Care

The pandemic has created a profound impact on many areas of our lives. At first, it was just wearing masks when outside, washing our hands more often and practicing social distancing. As time drug on, it began to affect how we went to work and even how we sought medical care. The medical industry was…

How Digital Impressions Improve Your Care

For most of the history of dentistry, getting dental impressions done hasn’t been an enjoyable experience. When dental impressions were needed, your provider would bring out uncomfortable plastic trays full of goop. These unpleasant-tasting appliances would be placed in your mouth, where they’d rub against your gums. If you’re one of the unfortunate ones, they…

How Teledentistry Can Improve Access To Orthodontic Care

Today, many rural areas are growing smaller by the year, and with the economic demands for high-paying jobs, orthodontists graduating with six-figure debts find that practicing in rural areas will often lead to less money. But orthodontic care is a medically necessary service, as orthodontic conditions such as cleft palates need orthodontic treatment to enhance…

How Chewing Gum Can Ease Discomfort From Braces

Once you get used to wearing braces, there shouldn’t be much pain or discomfort from them. While the first week of wearing braces may get uncomfortable, there are so many ways that patients new to wearing braces can find pain relief. Because of the gradual pressure placed along with the teeth due to the wires…

Why Buck Teeth in Children Should Not Be Neglected

Protruding teeth, also commonly referred to as buck teeth, can be a special kind of problem for your kids. Because of the ways they protrude, the upper teeth and the lower teeth can create gaps in your child’s smile and cause problems with brushing and flossing. But it can be easy to ignore this problem,…

How To Care For Your Oral Health With Asthma

Asthma can make it hard for some people to care for their teeth, especially if their condition is unmanaged. Asthma can bring about mucus buildup, inflammation attacks, and restrict the airways to the point where it can cause problems for the mouth. Harmful strains of bacteria can often develop more quickly for those who have…

Understanding The Impacts Of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, or OSA

Have you ever started the day with tooth prints on your tongue? If this doesn’t seem like a strange question to you, your tongue is trying to tell you something. Do you often feel like you’re tired no matter how long you’ve slept? In combination, these things may indicate that you have a condition called…

The Discovered Role Of An Imperfect Bite In Poor Posture

Sitting up straight is often the most ignored advice given to patients. Slouching, sitting hunched over, and having poor posture, in general, can cause stress to your joints and muscles, causing them to become fatigued and overworked often. Having poor posture can affect your energy levels, your mood, and self-image, but did you know it…

How Orthodontic Bonding Adhesive Can Protect Against Decay

Some of the best orthodontic work begins with bonding. Dental bonding allows us to ensure that any restorations you need, such as braces or jaw aligners, use bonding materials to cure the system to the tooth’s surface, allowing the device to work properly and create a controlled scenario for tooth movement. However, dental bonding braces…

How Protruding Teeth in Children Increases Risk of Dental Injury

Protruding teeth can have long-term and expensive consequences. Permanent teeth affected by traumas, poor oral habits, and other predetermining genetic conditions can often face an increased risk of further injury and trauma compared to others with aligned teeth. For children, this presents an especially important concern that dentists need to consider when caring for their…

Dr. Chris Vinson and Dr. Kristie Vinson Tulsa Precision Dental creates beautiful smiles through modern dentistry, working through the latest restorative and cosmetic techniques to meet our patients' needs and their families in Tulsa, OK. Our practice, operated by Drs. Chris and Kristie Vinson, believes in using preventative care values to achieve the most out of people's dental care.
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