Clint Baugham, DDS

A healthy mouth starts with brushing and flossing and regular dental teeth cleanings and dental exams by our registered dental hygienists and dentists.
Routine dental checkups are vital to your good oral hygiene and are the best way to detect problems before becoming a health concern.
Early detection and treatment can save you and your family unnecessary pain and expense in the long run.
A dental exam can identify cavities that need fillings, bleeding gums, gum disease, exposed tooth roots, cracked teeth, cracked dental crowns, and even cancer.

Dental tooth fillings are necessary to repair any area where tooth decay has been removed by the dentist or as the result of a dental emergency.
Tooth fillings repair the function and shape of the affected tooth and provide many years of tooth protection.
During a tooth filling procedure, the dentist removes the tooth's damaged portion, leaving as much healthy tooth as possible.
The tooth's resulting void will then be cleaned out and filled with one of many tooth filling materials.
The filling will help stop further decay by sealing off any cracks or crevices where bacteria could enter.

For those with fear or anxiety in visiting a dentist, we offer several sedation options to calm your fears: Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas, Oral Conscious Sedation, and Intravenous (IV) Sedation.
This conscious sedation relaxes patients while the dentist the necessary dental services.
Patients inhale a combination of nitrous and oxygen through a small, light mask over the nose.
The patient breathes in the gas, which induces a state of relaxation.
The dentist administers local anesthetic in conjunction with nitrous oxide.

An extraction is the removal of a tooth.
In dentistry, extractions may be necessary to improve dental health, and not always connected to tooth decay.
The extraction corrects the amount of space to adjacent teeth or for orthodontic placement of braces.
Wisdom teeth referred to as third molars, usually arrive in your late teens to early twenties.
If wisdom teeth are misaligned, they may become misaligned, angeled inward, or outward.
When poorly aligned, teeth crowding may occur and cause pain in the jawbone, nerves, or damage to other teeth.

We understand that tooth pain can be excruciating and unbearable.
For this reason, our dentists are available to treat emergency tooth pain and will adjust our schedule to meet our patients' needs.
If you experience tooth pain, please do not wait until after hours to call our offices.
Conditions such as a chipped or cracked tooth, a knocked-out tooth, and traumatic injuries causing tooth pain may require emergency care to save the tooth.
A severe toothache can feel like a dental emergency due to swelling and infection.