If you are in pain, our Providers are ready to see you. We recommend making an appointment but Walk-Ins are welcomed! We do same day extractions and same day root canals. Our Doctors are trained in Oral Surgery and Root canal procedures.
A root canal is indicated in situations where a patient has deep dental decay or a deep previous filling that is now beginning to cause extensive pain. When the nerve inside of a tooth swells, it doesn’t have the ability to expand the same way our skin does when we receive a cut, burn, etc. This is part of the reason why the tooth experiences the pain it does once dental decay reaches the nerve and is the reason why we must remove the nerve. Typically the doctor will remove the decay, remove the nerve, and place a material called gutta percha inside of the roots in which the nerve previously existed in order to prevent bacteria from re-entering the tooth. Patients typically feel immediate relief after a root canal, but can have tenderness for a few days.
A dental crown is a lab made custom prosthetic that is cemented into your current tooth as a means to protect the natural tooth from either further breakdown because it is unable to sustain daily natural forces or due to large dental decay. The doctor makes the tooth suitable for crown by shaving it down to correct proportions, taking an impression of your tooth to send to the lab to create, and then making the patient a temporary crown to wear until the permanent crown is ready. Crowns may be needed in cases where a patient had a root canal on a tooth, and this helps by prevent fracturing of the now weakened tooth. Crowns also may be needed in cases where we have to re-build or change a patients bite to create a more healthy bite and increase facial height, to replace a missing tooth by “bridging” two or more teeth together, or purely for cosmetic reasons.
Dental Implants are typically the best option and becoming the standard of care in tooth replacement therapy. Implants can be placed in cases of missing a single tooth, down to replacing every single tooth in the mouth. When considering dental implants on a patient, we will take a 3D X-ray and scan of the jaws in order to minimize complications and provide us with all of the information needed to provide you with the best care. With dental implants, we will either remove your tooth and place the implant same day or we will allow for healing after tooth removal and then place the implants 4-6 months later. Once an implant is placed, we typically allow the implant to lock into the bone over a few months time before placing the final tooth on it.
Dentures are a great way to replace either all of the teeth in the mouth or just a few at an affordable cost. Typically, dentures take anywhere between 2-4 visits to make. We will first start off by taking an impression of your mouth to highlight your anatomy to begin preparing to accurately make you teeth. We will usually see you at a following appointment to take facial height measurements and make sure that we can establish the correct bite and lip support. We will then bring you back to try in the teeth and make sure you approve of the denture before the final processing and delivery of your new denture!
Invisalign is the perfect way to give you the
smile you have always wanted without having to endure the process of metal
braces! Invisalign is a set of clear aligners that help guide the teeth into a
straighter smile and cases typically range on average from 3-6 months time. The
process will begin with us taking a 3D scan of your teeth, which will allow us
to work on treatment planning your customized case to make sure that we can
achieve your goals. You will typically have to wear each aligner trays for 1-2
weeks at a time as treatment progresses until completion. At completion we will
take new impressions of your smile and make you retainers that you will wear
everyday for 3 months, and then nightly going forward.
