Customized Care

What is Restorative Dentistry?

Have you ever thought about how your teeth should fit together comfortably or how your jaw should function? Few people do... until unconscious habits or missing teeth compromises their chewing or have TMJ pain or are experiencing sensitive, worn or broken teeth.

Then they call on the skills of a specially trained dentist to restore the chewing surfaces, bite and jaw function to as harmonious a pattern as possible. To just fill spaces where teeth have been lost or to place a crown on a broken tooth is not necessarily Restorative Dental Care.

During restorative care, the entire architectural blueprint of a normal, healthy tooth form, chewing pattern and stable joint for that individual patient must be well thought out and planned ahead of time.

What does this have to do with you?

Understanding these destructive conditions which necessitate restorative dentistry is the essence of advanced preventive dental care.

When these factors are examined before there are problems, it becomes the most advanced preventive care possible. . . and we can indeed prevent the major problems founds today.

Our goal for our patients is the peace of mind in knowing your teeth are in the strongest possible condition.

Preventive dental care is that quality and durability that, once any treatment is completed, it has the least chance possible of ever needing to be done again.

Customized Care: Kids

Miracles of Modern Dentistry

Remarkable things are possible today and your child should grow up with the best of possibilities! The most valuable service we offer is informing you about how the many "miracles" of modern dental care can benefit you and your child.

Prevention

You can stop cavities. Prevention deals with identifying potential problems before they become painful or expensive. Our goal is to teach you and your child the best approach for them.

From my observations of adults, virtually all dental anxiety comes from an actual or perceived loss of control in a dental office. Somewhere, sometime a dentist yelled at them, made them feel insecure or insignificant, actually hurt them, forced them to do something when they weren't ready, etc.

For kids, a dental office must be a safe place. Not just physically, but also psychologically. Most dental fear for kids is fear of the unknown. It is a new experience for them. We feel they must have some control over their environment. Obviously within limits and, yes, kids do test those limits, but first they must have confidence they have some control over the situation. Then they can have self-control. We want to do things with kids, not to them (a very big difference).

Some days they may come into the office tired. Maybe they were teased at school (Kids can have bad days too!). They simply cannot cope that day. We may choose to delay treatment to another day. It is amazing how often a child who is totally uncooperative at first opens up and is very cooperative another time after they recognize the trust and love. In some cases it may be best to refer to one of our trusted Pediatric Dental specialists take care of difficult situations in order for your child to have the best possible experience.

The experiences in our office are the most valuable part of our care for your children. Positive experience fosters a positive attitude towards preventive health care. The attitude that they are worth taking care of, so they are better able to grow up taking good care of themselves.