Diagnosis
Diagnodent
Sometimes, it's difficult for us to diagnose cavities, especially in the pits and grooves on the biting surfaces of your back teeth. The traditional way to check for cavities was by looking for visual signs of decay on the tooth, checking X-rays, ...

Digital X-ray
Until recently, our only option when taking a dental X-ray was the exposure of a small film packet, which then took between five and ten minutes to develop. Now, the digital era has brought us an exciting new technology called digital radiography. ...

Intraoral Camera
While X-rays provide valuable information that we can't get from any other source, they can't show you everything that's going on in your mouth. That's why we have invested in an intraoral camera -- a highly advanced piece of diagnostic ...

Procedures
Air Abrasion
Until recently, using the traditional dental handpiece was the only way we had to remove decay from your teeth. But now, we have a new option called air abrasion that allows us to remove decay on teeth without even touching them! What is air ...

CAD/CAM
In the past, the process of making an inlay or onlay involved a series of appointments in our office, followed by the fabrication of the restoration in a dental laboratory. Today, we have a new technology called CAD-CAM that allows us to custom ...

Compudent
The Compudent system, featuring the Wand, is a new computer technology that helps reduce the discomfort associated with the anesthetic used to numb your teeth before treatment. The pinch you may have felt when we numbed your mouth in the past ...

Hard Tissue Laser
Because lasers use steady and concentrated light to remove unhealthy tooth structure, they have several advantages over the traditional dental drill. * Less heat is produced, so there is a reduced need for traditional anesthetic. * It's ...

Soft Tissue Laser
Lasers have become part of our daily lives; they're in our computers, and we see them in the grocery store when we buy our food. Now, with new advancements in technology, lasers have become an important part of dentistry as well. Before using ...

Micro-Dentistry
The widespread use of fluoride has made the surface of teeth so hard that the process of dental decay has actually changed. Before the preventive use of fluoride, decay usually attacked the exposed grooves of a tooth, where it could be found with a ...

Power Whitening
New breakthroughs in light-activated gels and highintensity lights now make it possible to achieve a whiter, brighter smile -- right here in our office. First, we thoroughly remove any plaque and tartar from your teeth. We then apply a whitening ...