Patient Services

What’s the first thing that people notice about you? More often than not, it’s your smile!

We offer a complete range of preventive, restorative, neuromuscular and cosmetic dental services that will keep you feeling good and your smile looking its best.

Preventive Services

Healthy teeth and gums are the foundation for your beautiful smile. At each checkup, we’ll examine your mouth, teeth and gums carefully to look for any signs of disease or decay, and give you an individualized program, tailored to your needs, so you can keep your mouth healthy and free of disease. Finally, we’ll give your teeth a complete cleaning so they’ll look their sparkling best!

Checkups and cleanings
Oral cancer screenings
Dental sealants
Bad breath therapy

Restorative Services

Whether you have a small cavity, a chipped tooth, or a gap in your grin due to missing or broken teeth, we can make your smile beautiful again. Using the most modern dental techniques and materials, we’ll restore your teeth to optimal health - and to optimal attractiveness!

Tooth colored fillings
Porcelain Veneers
Whitening
Bonding
All Porcelain Crowns, Onlays and Inlays
Bridges
Dentures and Partial Dentures
Restoration of Dental Implants
Invisalign invisible braces

Neuromuscular Dentistry

Neuromuscular dentistry focuses on keeping the muscles that move the jaw in a comfortable, relaxed position so they do not conflict with the teeth or the jaw joint. Symptoms of neuromuscular problems include:

Headaches and/or facial pain
Shoulder, neck, back pain
Clicking, popping or pain in jaw joints
Clenching or grinding teeth
Numbness in arms and fingers
Loose, worn, chipped and cracked teeth and/or fillings
Sensitive, painful teeth
Pain and sensitivity in teeth
Ringing or congestion in the ears

To treat neuromuscular problems, we use modern technology to find the position where the jaw muscles are relaxed and at rest. We move the jaw into the right position using a low-frequency T.E.N.S. (Transcutaneous Electrical Neural Stimulation) unit called a Myo-Monitor to relax the muscles. This rhythmic pulsing of this device relaxes the muscles and sets up ideal muscle function by increasing blood flow, flushing out toxins. We often find that after 45 minutes of stimulation, the muscles are in their ideal position.

Peridontal (Gum) Therapy

Periodontal disease is a bacterial infection of your gums that - left untreated - can cause your gums to recede and your teeth to loosen and fall out. (And there’s nothing attractive about that!)

But researchers have also discovered that periodontal disease has other serious implications for your overall health. They have linked the bacteria that cause periodontal disease to diabetes, heart disease and even low birth weight babies.

We use laser treatment for gum disease (and for cosmetic gum recontouring, too). Using a laser beam allows us to precisely target the infected gum tissues, removing them from the tooth’s pocket wall and cleaning the tartar from the tooth’s root surface. The laser sterilizes the area at the same time, killing any bacteria and leaving the gum pocket disease free. (That means there’s less chance the periodontal disease will recur.) We then use the laser to seal the area with a dense fibrin clot.

Laser surgery eliminates the need to make incisions, so you don’t need stitches and there’s no bleeding or swelling afterwards. You’ll feel no discomfort and you’ll recover quickly. In addition, there are fewer side effects, like sensitive teeth. Laser treatments can usually be completed more quickly than surgical treatments, meaning fewer appointments. Laser therapy is also a safe treatment for people with diabetes or bleeding disorders.

Cosmetic Dentistry

A beautiful smile not only boosts your self-assurance and confidence—it can also give a lift to your personal and professional life.

When you’re ready to bring out your beautiful smile, we’re here to help. From enhancements like whitening or veneers that can be done in a few appointments to full mouth restorations done over the course of several months, we can provide whatever dental services you need to give you the smile you’ve always wanted.

Zoom Whitening
Empress Porcelain Veneers
Bonding
All Porcelain Crowns, Onlays and Inlays
Bridges
Dentures and Partial Dentures
Restoration of Dental Implants
Invisalign invisible braces

Technological Advances

We believe strongly that our patients deserve the best treatments available today. That’s why we use the most modern dental technologies in our office -technologies that help us enhance your treatments and ensure your satisfaction.

Zoom 2 tooth whitening system – fast, effective, in-office bleaching
Diagnodent - a laser that detects even small areas of decay so we can treat them before they grow
Digital radiography - drastically reduces your exposure to radiation from x-rays
Intra-oral cameras - lets you look inside your mouth so you can understand what we’re seeing and be a more active participant in your dental care
Soft tissue laser therapy - using a laser, we can recontour your gums to enhance their attractiveness and/or control the harmful effects of gum disease using a laser

Patient Comfort Measures

We want you to feel well cared for during your visits to our office. We provide blankets to keep you warm and comfortable, music and DVD players to entertain you and sedatives or nitrous oxide to help you relax during your treatments.