Here at our office, your dentists, Dr. Stapley and Dr. Kitchen, routinely uses dental fillings to repair small cavities and chips in the tooth enamel. While they are meant to last for a long time, no filling is impervious to the ravages of time. As the years go by, the natural bacteria living in your mouth can weaken the dental... read more »

A dental filling is intended to repair a cavity or other modest-sized area of tooth decay. As time passes, the bacteria in your mouth can actually start to attack the seam where the filling is bonded to the healthy tooth enamel. If the bacteria eventually gain access, they can cause additional pockets of tooth decay within the enamel, causing the... read more »

At the dental practice of Dr. Kent Stapley & Dr. Nathan Kitchen in Mesa, Arizona, we are happy to provide dental implants for our patients with missing teeth. In many cases a bridge can be used to replace a missing tooth. However, a bridge needs to be mounted on two surrounding teeth. If you’ve lost your last molar there will not... read more »