Unlicensed Dentists Lead to Toothaches and Heart Ache!

At Hamlin Dental Group, we're highly regarded throughout Southern California for providing friendly, gentle dentistry to every patient we see. Further still, our skilled, board certified and licensed dental professionals are recognized for getting stunning results, every time. While it is easy to take for granted the abilities and credentials of our options for a dentist in Northridge, one recent case is an extreme example of why a trusted dentist is always essential.

At our comfortable and state of the art facility, our patients are used to finding the best tools dental resources for adults, teens and children. In Plano, TX, investigators recently discovered a number of dental tools like an x-ray machine, grinders, syringes, surgical instruments and aesthetics - in a man's private ranch home!

Yahoo! News reports that 63-year-old Jose Santiago Delao had been running an underground dental clinic out of his home for years - pulling teeth, filling cavities and other procedures. Delao, a trained dental lab technician, felt he was doing a favor for those who needed help. "It broke my heart," he said in an interview from the jailhouse, "because I have the experience."

However, Delao's unofficial dental facility's days were numbered one a woman he had worked on complained to police about a $75 molar repair that had left her unable to open her mouth and caused a clicking sound in her ear for several days. Soon after, several other allegations of abuses were raised.

As the premier dentist in North Hollywood and throughout the San Fernando Valley, it's easy to forget what a rare privilege top notch dentistry truly is. We consider it a true honor to use our dental skills to aid those who need help, whether they're children in need of braces or seniors seeking natural-looking dentures, Hamlin Dental Group will provide conservative, gentle dentistry and bright, shining results!

Healthy Teethy, Healthy Everything

We're not sure when it happened, but somewhere along the line the health of our mouth got separated from the rest of our body. At Hamlin Dental Group, we don't make that mistake. We believe strongly that dentistry is nothing more nor less than a branch of medicine. A dentist in Van Nuys or anywhere else should be very aware of a patient's overall health and how his teeth and gums reflect that.

The reason we're talking about this is this is because of a feature we stumbled over online in the The Norwich Bulletin which listed several dentistry-health connections. The fact that gum disease is closely correlated with heart disease has gotten a fair amount of press, but one point that was less well known is that, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, men who could not chew properly because they were missing teeth and had no dentures were 91 percent more likely to suffer from dementia.

Your dental health, your mental health, and your physical health are all closely related. It's food for thought. And, if you need a dentist in Northridge, North Hollywood or Van Nuys, call 888-400-8011 today. Your whole body will thank you.