General Dentistry Outline

General Dentistry Outline

It can be easy to underestimate the importance of oral health. However the well-being of your teeth is likely to have a substantial influence on your confidence and overall health. Oral health isn’t just about flashing a dazzling smile; it’s about being comfortable eating, speaking, and smiling. This generally requires healthy teeth and gum, which are our responsibility to provide you.

Enhance Dental Care understands that there is a crucial relationship between oral health and conditions such as cardiovascular disease. By ensuring your teeth and gum remain in tip-top shape against the test of time, you will need to consult a general dentist you can trust. Not only will they help you prevent oral infections such as gum disease, but they will also help your pearly whites remain as striking as ever. All beautiful and healthy teeth begin with a great dentist.

Promoting Your Complete Wellness

At Enhance Dental Care, we understand that general health begins with the well-being of your essential organs. The mouth tackles breathing, eating, and speaking, which defines your ability to produce energy, to inhale and exhale comfortably, and to communicate with others around you. Therefore, mouth disease is likely to impact the health of both adults in children in a variety of ways. Prevention of gum disease, on the other hand, has been proven to lower the risk of heart attacks, strokes, pre-term labor in pregnant women, and even some forms of diabetes.

Our team of family-friendly professionals is also tasked with applying its knowledge of general medicine and anatomy to distinguish your potential health problems. The Academy of General Dentistry has found that more than 9 out of 10 systemic diseases have oral symptoms even at their earliest stages. Therefore, it has become a necessity for our dentists to place disease prevention and detection at the forefront of their practice.

Our preventive programs do not end at diagnostic general health conditions; however: our team of professionals also specializes in treating diseases of the teeth, gums, and maxillofacial areas. With our proposed bi-annual visits, you can easily attain proper oral health and top functionality. We tailor our general dentistry treatements to your specific needs. On your first consultation with one of our professionals, you will create a dental hygiene plan which entails frequent dental examinations, cleaning schedules, X-rays, and other routine testing. This process will guarantee the detection of potential infections and conditions at their earliest stages. To minimize health risks, we use neither nitrous compounds nor sedation in our offices.

Prevention

As mentioned earlier, preventive measures must be taken by your dental care professional to ensure you do not develop oral infection or diseases, or experience a drastic weakening of your teeth. We believe in providing clients with frequent general checks such as regular x-rays, oral cancer screenings, gum disease evaluations, and tooth decay examinations, to ensure your professional can spot any possible health problem from early on. Our dental exams cater to the entire family – the senior adult and child over 7 are both treated and tested in the same facility.

To save you costly restorative trips to the dentist’s chair, we also offer frequent professional dental cleanings (prophylaxis) to tackle plaque and decay, as well as protective sealants. Our dentists often use fluoride as an extra preventive measure, to give the teeth another defensive coat.

At Enhance Dental, we teach our clients that dental disease prevention begins with a balanced diet. Avoiding sweets and acidic drinks and consuming enough calcium will lower the risks of cavities and gum disease while maintaining the strength of your natural dentition and its supporting structure. By educating our patients on the necessity of all these measures, we ensure they rarely require drastic treatment.

Patient Education

Patient education is a crucial aspect of general dentistry because patients will have to commit to the bulk of the work of maintaining their oral health. It will be your responsibility to brush, rinse, and floss frequently, and you may even have to consume supplements or use dentition adjustment tools such as braces or a retainer. Therefore, it will be our task to make you understand the importance of each of these practices every step of the way. We teach our patients about the benefits of excellent oral health and hygiene as much as we do the technicities of cleaning. Our first-time patients generally leave our offices with new knowledge of products and techniques that can improve the appearance of their teeth while maintaining oral health.

We promote the use of dentist-approved oral hygiene solutions (toothbrushes, pastes, and washes), and our head dentist, Dr. Uddin, is trained to teach your young ones about proper brushing and flossing. Enhance Dental prioritizes the creation of a bond between practitioner and patient, to ensure a comfortable collaboration on your general oral health. You are free to contact your Enhance Dental practitioner at any time for additional dietary/nutritional/hygienic tips on keeping your mouth healthy and your smile dazzling!

Restorations

Cavities are some of the most unpleasant established dental conditions. If you are suffering from a cavity, Enhance Dental understands your immediate need for fillings or crowns, because tooth decay and unevenness are uncomfortable and dangerous. If your tooth structure needs treatment due to a cavity, we will provide you with amalgam-free composite fillings, which will blend seamlessly with the rest of your enamel. Not only will our composite fillings restore your teeth’s healthy appearance, but they will also prevent the decaying of your tooth for a very long while.

Chipped or cracked teeth may require a purely aesthetic fix, but it can be quite as important. Chipped and cracked teeth can leave nerves exposed – which can lead to their damage and even to gum disease – and will feel uncomfortable when chewing and speaking. A chipped tooth can also greatly hinder your confidence, which is why Enhance Dental provides carefully, individually-designed porcelain crowns for the surface of your chipped teeth. If you are looking to use crowning to fix poorly-aligned dentition, our team will be happy to schedule your appointment.

If you have missing teeth, you must be somewhat conscious of the gap in your smile, or your difficulty chewing on the affected side. To avoid extensive, invasive oral surgery, you may want to consider dentures, which we offer both in full and partial sets. We design our dentures based on your natural oral structure and gumline. Therefore, they are undetectable to others when worn. They can also be removed after use and easily cleaned, which limits the risk of accumulating bacteria in the mouth.

Our dental implants, on the other hand, tackle a more permanent need for tooth replacement. This is the ideal option if you are self-conscious of your missing tooth or teeth, and would like to rectify the problem entirely. Implants are inserted in the jawbone for longevity and a natural look. We also offer implant restorations for patients with damaged or removed implants.

Bridges are another solution to missing teeth, but they do not require implantation in the gums or jawbone. Instead, bridges are a fantastic option if you have many missing teeth in the same area of your dentition because they are connected to existent teeth through a stretch of abutment. As bridges latch on to healthy teeth firmly, they remain in place during daily tasks such as chewing or eating and look as natural as any other replacement option.

Gum Disease Treatment And Prevention

Gums are an essential part of your mouth. They hold teeth firmly ingrained into the jaw while hosting millions of nerves responsible for most sensation in the lower area of your face. Because of the density of this nerve ending population in the gums, it is common for patients to refer to an advanced case of gum disease as “excruciating.” Gum disease is often the result of accumulated plaque, which eventually becomes a hardened coat of tartar attacking the nerve endings. If you are suffering from toothaches, reddened and swollen gums, tooth loss, or even chronic bad breath, you may want to book a screening for gum disease.

At Enhance Dental, we offer extensive scaling and root planing to eradicate tartar from your gums. Scaling refers to the process of peeling the tartar off your gums, while root planing involves teeth roots being reattached to the gums. For added safety and comfort, our facility uses state-of-the-art 3D scaling technology. This has been proven to shorten both the scaling procedure and its recovery time. After your scaling and planing, you will receive tips facilitating optimal recovery from your practitioner.

Root Canal Therapy

Root canal therapy is often necessary when a cavity has caused bacteria to accumulate in the enamel’s pulp. This can cause great discomfort when biting and chewing, and the pulp’s infection can spread to neighboring teeth and further the problem. The pulp is located inside the tooth; it is a small layer of tissue responsible for supplying the nerve endings and enamel with nutrients. Because of its proximity to nerve endings, pulp damage can cause considerable pain and requires swift extraction. Modern root canal therapy is non-invasive and can substantially ease the discomfort of tooth decay.

Emergency Dental Care

Dental emergencies can be quite horrifying for both children and adults. They can make simple tasks like eating, talking or even lying on one side extremely painful. At Enhance Dental, we make it our priority to provide your teeth with the best survival options in case of accidents or emergencies. We know the importance of prompt treatment; therefore we urge our patients to book an appointment as soon as possible after any dental emergency.

Parents, in particular, will need a professional on call, to contact in case their children’s teeth are fractured by trauma from a misaimed football, a fall or an accidental bite on a hard object. In adult cases, severe accidents or the wearing out of fillings, crowns and other restorations can cause teeth to fall out entirely. It is important to note that dental emergencies hardly ever get better on their own – therefore, booking an appointment with your dentist before the situation compounds is essential.

We provide emergency dental care for the following:

• Avulsed (knocked out) teeth
• Lost fillings or crowns
• Cracked or broken teeth
• Dislodged or loose teeth

Cosmetic Procedures

To many, a healthy mouth ends with a perfect smile. However, this option can feel inaccessible to some, because of the natural set and shape of their teeth, or yellowing from past poor maintenance. However, cosmetic treatments exist to give just about any set of teeth a world-class, pearly-white smile.

Tooth whitening, which is the milder procedure, will only bleach your teeth – however, the results can be drastic. If you have yellow, brown, or stained teeth due to smoking, or regular coffee, tea or wine-drinking, you may want to consider a whitening procedure. Patients with Fluorosis (chronic fluoridation during a tooth’s development) may also seek out this measure, which will restore the whiteness of their teeth in just two visits. During the first visit, we will make molds of the concerned teeth to provide you with custom whitening trays. During your second visit, you will have to wear these trays for about half an hour. It isn’t uncommon for dentists to also prescribe overnight wear in more severe cases.

Porcelain veneers involve a porcelain bond to the surface of your teeth to create a natural-looking, perfectly shaped, and filled dentition. The appeal of porcelain for this procedure lies in how thinly it get be shaven – providing a more natural look. The porcelain itself is almost impossible to stain. This ensures the dazzling whiteness of smiles even years after the procedure. While veneers are not permanent, they can last very many years with proper upkeep.

A Concluding Note

Enhance Dental prides itself on providing the best dental care, dental hygiene training, restorative procedure, and dental health screenings available. Our facility offers a calming, inviting environment for clients of all ages and features medical equipment at the pinnacle of modernity. Our medical practitioners are looking forward to providing your smile with the greatness it deserves – contact us today to book your appointment!