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Pain in dentistry can vary from slight to severe.  We normally recommend that any patient having dental treatment that requires anesthetic (to be numbed up) have either tylenol or advil at the start of the appointment.  This helps reduce the chance of post treatment sorness from the needle or arising from the procedure itself.  Prescription pain medicine is prescribed by the dentist if he/she feels you will need more pain managment.  Below you will find a pain medicine progression that can be taken depending on the severity of the pain. 

Mild pain/Sorness:

Ice pack on cheek for 10-15 minutes every hour + 600 mg of ibuprofen (Advil) 4 times daily (breakfast, lunch, ...

Dr. Ramzi Matar (Winter Park Dentistry): Hello, today's topic for this podcast is silver versus white fillings.  In dentistry, this is definitely a very highly emotional subject amongst dentists, amongst patients.  There's always a significant amount of controversy.  People have very strong opinions and frankly today I'm here just to talk about some of the science that is behind the choice between a silver or white filling if you have a cavity.  At the bottom of this podcast, I'm going to also link a YouTube link to a video, an interview by a Doctor Gordon Christenson who, for non-dentists ...

Dr. Ramzi Matar (Winter Park Dentistry): Hello everybody, thanks and welcome to this episode of our podcast. We have again with us our guest Dr. Andonis Terezides, introduced to you at the last podcast about the bisphosphonate medications. Today our episode is about blood thinners. You’re obviously an oral surgeon, I think if you didn’t like blood there would be a problem, you deal with blood all the time, so bravo for you, I’m glad somebody has a stomach for it, a lot of people are very glad that you’re there. The reason I want to talk about blood ...

Dr. Ramzi Matar (Winter Park Dentistry): Hello everybody, welcome to this episode of our podcast. Today’s topic is teeth in a day, or sometimes it’s called Clear Choice, I’ve heard it being called. There’s several different names, but currently the most common name I hear about is teeth in a day. My guest today is Dr. Don Tillery, he is an oral surgeon, and I’ve got to say, Don, I’m really excited to have you on. You’ve always been an influence for me, since I came to town and started practicing here. You started off at University of Florida for dental school, then ...

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Hello everybody. Today we are talking about emergency hospital visits for dental conditions. I’m going to be talking to you about dental emergencies, and people who end up in the emergency room for it. The information that I’m giving you today is from a newsletter that I get, called Oral Surgery Update, and it’s the winter 2015 newsletter, so it’s pretty pertinent information, it is now March of 2015. A lot of this information came from a study that the University of Iowa did, they tracked I think 3 years, 2008, 2009 and 2010, of hospital visits. I’m going to mainly ...

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Hello, welcome. Today’s topic is dental decay, a pretty common problem. Dental decay is cavities or caries or what we all know as fillings, for example. I’m just going to give a little bit of a brief background and some information about what is dental decay and we can do to prevent it, and some of the same true and tried methods out there. Dental decay is a bacterial infection, it can be transmitted person to person, obviously using some sort of mouth interaction, kissing. Mostly, we have a few different ways to treat decay. We can alter the bacteria, we ...

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