Our practice can provide a wide range of dental services. We can typically provide every type of dental service without having to refer you to other specialties. This flexibility saves you time and keeps your total dental care within one practice. Our emphasis is on total preventive care for our patients. Total care begins with regular hygiene visits, regular checkups and continued home oral health routines.
Our practice also provides the highest-quality services for restoring mouths that have been damaged by dental disease and injury and common problems that require cosmetic dentistry. Our primary goal for our patients is to achieve and maintain optimum oral health through advances in techniques, technologies and by maintaining their scheduled dental exams.
The concept of a “filling” is replacing and restoring your tooth structure that is damaged due to decay or fracture with a material. We will replace old, broken-down amalgam/metal fillings that contain traces of mercury with white fillings (composites) to restore your smile and teeth to a more natural look and feel. With today’s advancements, no longer will you have to suffer the embarrassment of unsightly and unhealthy silver/mercury fillings or metal margins of the past. Eliminate the dark, black appearance in your teeth with new-age, state-of-the-art, tooth-colored resin or porcelain materials (Cerac).
Comparing White Fillings Versus Silver Amalgam Fillings:
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Bonding is a common solution for:
Often used to improve the appearance of your teeth and enhance your smile. As the name indicates, composite material, either a plastic or resin, is bonded to an existing tooth. Unlike veneers or crowns, composite bonding removes little, if any, of the original tooth. Composite bonding has many advantages:
Veneers are a very conservative way to protect and cosmetically transform the shape and color of your teeth. These thin, durable and comfortable restorations are customized from a porcelain material and are permanently bonded to your teeth. Veneers are a great alternative to otherwise painful dental procedures to improve the appearance of your smile. Common problems that veneers are used for:
Veneers are a great aesthetic solution to your smile that may even help you avoid orthodontic treatment. Subtle changes to your smile can be achieved with veneers, and in most cases, veneer application is completed in only two office visits. Please contact our office if you have any further questions on veneers.
A crown (cap) is a protective covering that fits over an original tooth. It is used when the tooth needs to be protected because it has been badly compromised by large decay , trauma or severe biting force. Crowns are made of a variety of different materials such as porcelain or gold. The treatment plan for a patient receiving a crown involves:
This process generally consists of a minimum of 2-3 visits over a three to four week period. Once the procedure is completed, proper dental hygiene, including daily brushing and flossing, is required to maintain healthy, bacteria-free teeth, gums and crowns. This helps in the prevention of gum disease. Given proper care, your crowns can last a lifetime.
A bite splint is used to artificiially correct your bite while you sleep. If you don't have a perfect bite, you subconsciously at night, try to fix it by grinding your teeth. This grinding is triggered by stress and puts severe force on your teeth, jaw joint and jaw muscles. You notice it by cracked and sensitve teeth, painful muscles and in severe cases, an earache.This removable acrylic guard protects your teeth and realigns your jaws to decrease TMJ pain and reduce joint strain. Your splint will be custom fitted from impressions of your teeth and is worn usually at night. yp>
Did you know that half of cavities found in your teeth could go undetected by current diagnostic techniques? However, our office now offers a new diagnostic method that can more accurately define caries in teeth.
We offer a unique service that can detect caries at the earliest stage. The DIAGNOdent Laser Caries Detector is over 90 percent accurate in detecting even the smallest lesions that don’t even appear on X-rays! Early detection enables us to better preserve and protect your teeth.
The DIAGNOdent Laser Caries Detector boasts a high patient acceptance and satisfaction with its quick, simple and painless nature.
For more information about DIAGNOdent, please visit their website at www.kavousa.com.
In order to bring you a more pleasant dental experience, we use Waterlase Dentistry™ for both hard and soft tissue procedures. Through a combination of water and laser energy (HydroPhotonics™), Waterlase has revolutionized laser dentistry with more accuracy and precision and with your comfort in mind.
With Waterlase Dentistry, we can remove decay, perform a root canal, treat canker sores, herpetic and aphthous ulcers or even create the smile you’ve always wanted. Tooth, bone and gum procedures have never been easier. Procedures that once took several appointments can now be finished in as little as one visit! Waterlase Dentistry can cut into the tissue without the discomfort that heat, pressure and vibration normally causes. Thus, the patient needs less anesthesia or fewer shots. It’s so gentle that the procedures can be completed with little or no bleeding and less swelling.
When performed by a trained dentist, Waterlase Dentistry is extremely safe. Ask us how comfortable your next procedure can be with the new Waterlase Dentistry system.
A bridge is a dental device that fills a space that a tooth previously occupied. A bridge may be necessary to prevent:
There are three main types of bridges, namely:
Valplast is a nylon-like material that has replaced the metal and acrylic denture material used to build the framework for standard removable partial dentures. Valplast is nearly unbreakable and can be made rather thin. The best part is the material can be made to match the natural color of the gums. Valplast can be used to form not only the denture base but the clasps as well, making Valplast dentures practically indistinguishable from the gums, so no one will even know you’re wearing dentures!