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Dentures are removable replacements for missing teeth typically made out of an acrylic resin which at times incorporate porcelain or metal for additional structural support. There are two main types of dentures. Both Complete Dentures and Partial Dentures are finely crafted, custom-fitted. If you properly maintain your dentures they will appear natural and provide a perfect smile. Additionally, dentures help strengthen muscles controlling your expressions that require the support of your teeth, rid you of pronunciation problems caused by missing teeth and aid with chewing.
Types of Dentures
Complete Dentures
These replace all of your teeth, upper or lower. Their comfort depends on muscle, bones, tongue, and saliva. Patients begin wearing conventional dentures after healing the teeth that were pulled.
Partial Dentures
Designed to correct the gaps in your smile when only some of your teeth are missing. Metal attachments anchor the dentures to your natural teeth. Partial Dentures maintain tooth alignment by preventing your remaining teeth from shifting. Partial Dentures can also help prevent your loss of more teeth due to decay or gum disease.
Immediate Dentures
Immediate Dentures are placed all at once, and may require additional adjustments after the healing process. It can take months for your bone and tissue to stabilize after tooth extractions.
Upper Dentures
Upper Dentures, tend to be a bit easier to adjust to. These are made of the same materials as a Complete Denture, but are designed to provide you with upper teeth only.
Over Dentures
Over Dentures are a type of conventional denture similar to Complete Dentures. The difference is that not all teeth are extracted and they use one or more natural teeth for their support. This type provides greater stabilization during chewing. Over Dentures cost more and typically require more preparation dental appointments until the procedure is fully complete.

Treatment
At some point or other in ours lives, most of us wind up with a cavity. In most cases, a cavity calls for your dentist to remove the decay and to fill in the tooth area that was removed. There have been a number of advances in the field over the past few years, so if you're one of the lucky ones and haven't had a cavity in a while, you should read up on what is available today so that you understand the choices available to you.
Amalgam fillings
Amalgam fillings may contain mercury, and are often referred to as metal fillings. Their safety has been in question for a number of years due to concerns over the absorption of elemental mercury contributing to several diseases, including Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, dementia and arthritis. The FDA investigations have not proven that the minute amount of mercury vapors released from silver fillings is a health hazard. Amalgam fillings are a mixture of mercury liquid and small pieces of silver and other metals such as copper, tin and zinc.
Composite Resin Fillings
There are no known health risks of receiving composite fillings. Composite resin dental fillings were created as an alternative to traditional metal dental fillings. Tooth fillings colored to look like a natural tooth are known as Composite Resin Dental Fillings, are made of a plastic dental resin. Composite Resin Dental Fillings are strong, durable, and make for a very natural looking smile. Many dental insurance plans cover their use.
Inlays and Onlays
If over half of your molar tooth's biting surface is decayed an inlay or onlay may be a better option than a filling. These options are basically for when more than a filling is needed but less than a crown will do. An inlay is placed in between the cusps of the tooth, whereas an only will cover one or more of the cusps. They can be made of a gold alloy, porcelain or tooth-colored resin and are cemented into place.

Many of us have heard the comparisons of painful things to the root canal procedure. It's not that bad. There are tiny canals within your tooth that may become infected. This leads to the pulp inside your tooth also becoming diseased. Either your dentist or an endodontist to remove any infection performs the root canal procedure. The canals are then filled and the tooth receives either a filling or a crown. Crowns are more common in most cases as they add strength to the tooth itself. The procedure itself takes one to two visits. There are tiny canals within your tooth that may become infected. This leads to the pulp inside your tooth also becoming infected as well. Either your dentist or an endodontist to remove any infection performs the root canal procedure. The canals are cleaned and then filled and the tooth receives either a filling or a crown. Root Canal Procedure
How are Dental Root Canals Performed?
Depending on the number of teeth and severity affected, root canals usually require one to two visits not including any follow-up visits. Your dentist or Endodontist will numb the area around the affected tooth, or may offer you the option of mild sedation. A rubber dental dam is placed and the tooth is then drilled to the pulp area either through the top or the back of the tooth. The actual root canals are measured after some of the pulp has been removed. This is done so that the dentist can clean the entire canal, and so that enough of the filling material will be used to completely fill the canal. The actual measuring is done with either x-rays or electronic imaging devices.

Our digital radiology systems have reduced the patient’s exposure to radiation by up to 90%.
-Maxillofacial Computerized Tomography System.
-Digital Orthopantomography.
-Digital Teleradiography and Digital Periapical Radiography.

Pedodontics is a dental science focusing on the treatment of children. This specialized care helps children feel comfortable with dentistry; restores and maintains primary and permanent dentitions; assists in the prevention of dental caries and periodontal disease; and corrects difficulties of occlusion.
Pedodontic Dentisty Include:
- Behavior management and dental education
- Monitoring of the dental eruption
- Routine dental check-up
- Child dietary consultation
- Fluoride application treatment
- Cleaning & polishing
- Restorations and tooth-colour filling of deciduous teeth
- Sealant of the permanent teeth
- Space maintainer, space regainer
- Root canal treatment and stainless steel crown of the deciduous teeth

Periodontists are the dental specialists who treat gum disease and are known as the plastic surgeons for your smile. Periodontists are able to provide a simple surgical solution that is done in the office with only a simple local anesthetic. Normally, this minimally-invasive surgery does not hurt when it is being done and usually does not cause pain after the anesthetic has worn off.
Pedodontic treatment available in our clinic are:
- Scaling and root planning
- Aesthetic and Gingivectomy
- Gingival recession and Gingival Graft
- Esthetic Periodontal Crown-Lengthening Surgery and Bone graft
Gingivitis and Periodontitis
The term "periodontal disease" or "gum disease" in its strictest sense refer to both gingivitis and periodontitis.

Gingivitis is and inflammatory condition of the gingiva. Gingivitis is modified by several factors such as smoking, certain drugs and hormonal changes that occur in puberty and pregnancy.
Periodontitis follows gingivitis and is also influenced by the individual's immune and inflammatory response. It is initiated by microbial plaque. Periodontitis involves the desruction of the supporting structure of the teeth. Clearly, periodontitis is the most sinificant of these diseases because it causes tooth loss, mouth odor or bad breath or halitosis

About 85 to 90 percent of bad breath cases are related to an oral problem. While another 8 percent to 10 percent of cases may be caused by chronic postnasal drip.

Oral reasons for mouth odor may include gum disease, broken down teeth and decay, prosthetic devices that are ill-fitting or that cause food accumulation in hard-to-clean areas and even smoking.

Perhaps the most common culprits of mouth odor are "dental plaque and food debris. These allow bacterial growth and putrefaction that can cause bad breath

A dental implant is an artificial tooth root that an experienced dentist places into your jaw to hold a replacement tooth or bridge. Dental implants are an ideal option for people in good general oral health who have lost a tooth or teeth due to periodontal disease, an injury, or some other reasons. While high-tech in natural-looking and feeling,you may forgot you ever lost a tooth. You know that your confidence about your teeth affects how you feel about yourself, both personally and professionally.

Perhaps you hide your smile because of spaces from missing teeth. Maybe you don’t feel secure from your dentures. Perhaps you have difficulty chewing, if you are missing one or more teeth and would like to smile, speak and eat again with comfort and confidence, there is Good News! Dental implants are teeth that can look and feel just like your own!

Under proper conditions, such as placement by an experienced dentist and diligent patient maintenance, implants can last a lifetime. Long-term study has shown improving success for implants. Dental implants are like your own teeth and will require the same care. In order to keep your implant clean and plaque-free, brushing and flossing still apply!

Advantages of Dental Implants Over Dentures or a Bridge
Every way you look at it, dental implants are a better solution to the problem of missing teeth.

Esthetic Dental Implants look and feel like your own teeth!

Since dental implants integrate into the structure of your bone, they prevent the bone loss and gum recession that after accompany bridgework and dentures. No one will ever know that you have a replacement tooth.

Tooth-saving
Dental Implants don’t sacrifice the quality of your adjacent teeth like a bridge does because neighboring teeth are not altered to support the implants. More of your own teeth are left untouched, a significant long-term benefit to your oral health!

Confidence Dental implants will allow you to once again speak and eat with comfort and confidence! They are secured and offer freedom from the irksome clicks and wobbles of dentures. They’ll allow you to say goodbye to worries about misplaced dentures and messy pastes and glues.

Reliable the success rate of dental implants is highly predictable. They are considered an excellent option for tooth replacement. Dental implants are intimately connected with the gum tissues and underlying bone in the mouth.

A bright, white smile makes us feel younger and at the same time helps to enhance the image of ourselves that we want to transmit to others. Dental whitening is a safe, reliable and effective option to radically improve the appearance of our smile.

Whitening techniques activated by diode laser allow us, in a single action, to lighten the colour of our teeth and achieve that bright smile that gives us joviality and confidence.

The diode laser for dental whitening is a fast, painless method with immediate results and minimal side effects (some patients may experience temporary sensitivity which can also be relieved by laser).

If we are looking for a more aesthetic smile, with a high degree of patient-satisfaction, we must take into account whitening treatments. Among such treatments, the diode laser is one of the fastest, safest and most effective.

Orthodontics is a specialty of dentistry that is concerned with the study and treatment of malocclusions (improper bites), which may be a result of tooth irregularity, disproportionate jaw relationships, or both. The word comes from the Greek words ortho meaning straight and odons meaning tooth.

Orthodontic treatment can focus on dental displacement only, or can deal with the control and modification of facial growth. In the latter case it is better defined as "dentofacial orthopedics".

Orthodontic treatment can be carried out for purely aesthetic reasons with regards to improving the general appearance of patients' teeth. However, there are Orthodontists, who work on reconstructing the entire face, rather than focusing exclusively on teeth. Nonetheless, treatment is most often prescribed for practical reasons such as providing the patient with a functionally improved bite. If the main goal of the treatment is the dental displacement, most commonly a fixed multibracket therapy is used. In this case orthodontic wires are inserted into dental braces, which can be made from stainless steel or a more aesthetic ceramic material.

After a course of active orthodontic treatment, patients will often wear retainers, which will maintain the teeth in their improved position while the surrounding bone reforms around them.

The retainers are generally worn full-time for a short period, perhaps 6 months to a year, and then worn periodically (typically nightly during sleep) for as long as the orthodontist recommends. It is possible for the teeth to stay aligned without regular retainer wear. However, there are many reasons teeth will crowd as a person ages; thus there is no guarantee that teeth, orthodontically treated or otherwise, will stay aligned without retention. For this reason, many orthodontists recommend periodic retainer wear for many years (or indefinitely) after orthodontic treatment.

Appropriately trained doctors align the teeth with respect to the surrounding soft tissues, with or without movement of the underlying bones, which can be moved either through growth modification in children or jaw surgery (orthognathic surgery) in adults