Services

Preventive Care: Our office takes prevention seriously! We believe that your care starts at home.
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A daily routine of brushing, flossing, and healthy eating is the best way to take care of your teeth. Our team loves to teach the younger and sometimes not so young patients how to properly take care of their teeth. Our preventative services include routine cleanings, fluoride treatment and sealants. We have home products that we often recommend such as prescription strength fluoride and oral rinses to help fight cavities and gum disease. We also want to prevent injuries to your athlete’s teeth. We can make custom fit athletic mouth guards to help protect the teeth while participating in sports. We can help prevent snoring with sleep apnea appliances that you wear at night.

Restorative: We do a wide variety of restorative procedures. Our staff believes in educating our patients and discussing all of the different options available to them. We take a conservative approach to restorative dentistry and try to restore teeth to proper function without being overly aggressive with treatment. We restore teeth with fillings, crowns and sometimes root canals are required. We can replace missing teeth with fixed or removable appliances. A bridge replaces a lost tooth or teeth by crowning the adjacent teeth and filling the missing spaces with solid crowns referred to as pontics. The restoration is then permanently cemented into place. A removable appliance is just that, removable. It can be a full or partial denture, or a small appliance that only replaces a single lost tooth. We restore missing teeth with implant supported crowns as well.

Cosmetic: We can do a variety of procedures to cosmetically enhance your smile. The easiest way to improve your smile is to simply bleach your teeth. We make custom fit bleaching trays that fit over your teeth. Custom trays are better than strips for the simple fact that they provide a more consistent and uniform way to get the bleach evenly distributed on the teeth. We can also correct gaps between the teeth or correct malformed or misshaped teeth with porcelain crowns or veneers. In some cases “no prep” veneers can be used to close spaces or enhance the smile without having to do any preparation to your teeth. If your alignment is off or the problem is crowding, we can use Invisalign to correct your smile. If your case requires advanced or difficult tooth movements we will work with an orthodontist to ensure we come up with the best treatment plan for your situation.

Extractions: Yes, we do extractions. Even though our goal is to help you keep your teeth for life, we do remove teeth when necessary. Sometimes fractures occur that leave a tooth non-restorable. Cavities or decay can destroy too much of a tooth which in some cases will result in the need for removal. We also remove teeth at the request of the orthodontist. In many cases correct alignment cannot be achieved without creating some space by removing teeth.

Pain Management: We use local anesthetic and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) to manage pain. We cannot put you to sleep in our office, however that is very rarely ever necessary. If you or a family member needs to be put to sleep or requires sedation for an extraction, we will refer you or them to an Oral Surgeon.

Night guards: If you wake up with headaches and sore facial or chewing muscles you are almost certainly grinding or clinching your teeth. If you have TMJ symptoms it is most often caused by clinching or grinding. Not only do these unconscious habits cause pain and soreness, they destroy your teeth. A custom night guard or occlusal guard can prevent costly damage to your teeth while at the same time relaxing your facial and chewing muscles and taking a load off of the joint.

Silent Night anti-snoring appliances: Snoring can be very annoying to those trying to sleep with a snorer in the room. Although snoring can
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be an inconvenience to the one who hears it, the bigger issue is that the snorer is not breathing well. Sleep Apnea affects many people of all ages and backgrounds. We can help relieve the snoring and increase sleep quality by using the silent night appliance to open the airway and improve breathing while asleep. If you have been diagnosed with sleep apnea the silent night appliance may be able to replace your C-pap device. Not all cases of sleep apnea can be corrected with an oral appliance; we will discuss each case with your Medical Doctor who diagnosed the apnea prior to treatment.