Digital Smile Design Collaboration

Digital smile design, also known as DSD®, is a revolutionary planning tool that works with your dental and facial proportions to plan a treatment to create the smile of your dreams. DSD uses movies, images, and temporary mock-ups to provide our team with a greater understanding of the interaction between your lips, gums, and teeth and how they work together to generate your smile.

Same Day Smiles

While the process of getting dental implants takes time to ensure the best results and long-term success, you will leave our office with new teeth in just one day, coordinated by our expert team of specialists. Our team delivers a coordinated process that provides you with a fixed (non-removable) temporary implant or implants during the same visit. That means that you can start smiling with confidence immediately.

Single Dental Implants

Dental implants are the best and longest-term solution for missing or hopeless teeth. When a broken or damaged tooth is removed, dental implants help maintain the jawbone where the tooth was removed. The implant begins with inserting a permanent titanium fixture rooted in the jawbone using the hole created by the missing tooth. A custom-made new tooth or crown is then attached to the titanium fixture, creating a permanent new tooth. Your new crown will look and feel natural and will not affect your ability to speak or eat the foods you enjoy.

Overdentures

Overdentures are supported by implants and replace a full set of upper or lower teeth. Overdentures use implants to anchor them, so you don’t need adhesives to keep them in place. Overdentures snap onto the implants, holding them securely in place throughout the day. The implants used with overdentures promote bone growth and prevent bone loss, which is common with traditional dentures. With the security of the implants, you will enjoy a more secure and better bite force than traditional dentures, allowing you to enjoy the foods that present issues with traditional dentures.

Multiple Dental Implants

Multiple dental implants are the best and longest lasting solution to replace multiple broken, missing or failing teeth. Dental implants are a natural-looking and feeling tooth replacement and will keep you smiling for years with very low maintenance. When broken or damaged teeth are removed, your jawbone will need to be prepared for the new implants. Each person has a unique set of circumstances, and your doctor will discuss the best options for your implants. Dental implants help maintain the jawbone where teeth are removed. Dental implants involve inserting permanent titanium fixtures rooted in the jawbone using the area created by the missing or removed teeth. A temporary set of teeth will be installed until your doctor determines that your mouth is well-healed and ready for your permanent dental implants. Your custom-made dental implants or crowns will replace the temporary teeth by attaching them to the titanium fixture, creating your permanent new teeth. Your new teeth will look and feel natural and will not affect how you speak or your ability to eat the foods you enjoy.

Your new dental implants for multiple missing teeth will:

• Stop the bone resorption process (deterioration)
• Provide a more comfortable and stable solution than partial dentures
• Maintain the integrity of the facial structure (no sagging jawline)
• Keep the gum line intact since it won’t be worn away by metal clasps
• Restore natural biting and chewing capacity
• Preserve adjacent natural teeth
• Allow you to eat foods you couldn’t eat before, such as steak, corn on the cob, apples, and more
• Look, function, and feel just like natural teeth
• Provide a permanent tooth-replacement option – you won’t have to deal with messy denture adhesives or cleaning solutions anymore!

Fixed Hybrids

A fixed hybrid denture is a type of implanted denture designed to improve the support and strength of your dentures. Like removable dentures, hybrids sit on top of the teeth and gums. However, they are secured with screws to the dental implant and cannot be removed without the help of an implant dentist.

Surgically Facilitated Orthodontic Therapy, or “SFOT”

Surgically facilitated orthodontic therapy is a predictable orthodontic approach to managing dental crowding, narrow jaws and recession and is airway-centric.

SFOT can prevent tooth removals, develop healthy bone and soft tissue volume around your teeth, and to correct an improper bite or malocclusion. SFOT can also reduce the long-term risk of gum recession and increase oral cavity volume. In addition, evidence-based research has demonstrated that SFOT may reduce the amount of time spent in braces or aligners.

Impacted Canine Exposures

Your canine teeth are some of the final permanent teeth to come in, emerging at about the age of 11 or 12. After wisdom teeth, canine teeth are the most commonly impacted teeth. When teeth are impacted, it means they are stuck beneath the gums and are unable to grow into the mouth properly. When wisdom teeth become impacted, extraction is often the best treatment, but when canines are impacted, they must be treated in an entirely different way because canines are very important for the bite. Impacted canine teeth will often be treated both orthodontically (by an orthodontist) and surgically (by an oral surgeon) so that they can have the best chance to emerge successfully.

Gum and Soft Tissue Health and Regeneration

Minimally invasive techniques are used to cover exposed roots and regenerate natural tissue. Grafting not only improves the beauty of your smile and protects roots but also reduces tooth sensitivity while slowing further recession and contributing to bone loss.

Gum Lift, Aesthetic Crown Lengthening

It’s often referred to as a “gummy smile.” That’s when excess gum tissue makes the teeth appear smaller. Aesthetic Crown Lengthening—also called gum contouring, gum reshaping, or gum lifting—is what we perform in these cases to bring improved balance and proportion to your smile. The results can be incredible.

Gum recession is a condition that causes the gums to wear away, shrink, or pull back and expose the tooth root. Your gumline becomes uneven, making some teeth look longer than their counterparts and giving you an asymmetrical smile. Without the protection your gums usually provide, your teeth can become very sensitive to different temperatures and accumulate plaque. Receding gums are typically a symptom of bone loss. The combination of gum recession and bone loss increases your chances of developing tooth decay, cavities, gum disease, loose teeth, and subsequent tooth loss. By placing new gum tissue in the area, we can provide support, increasing the longevity of your teeth. In many cases, we can achieve root coverage that will make your smile more beautiful and balanced.

Tongue or Lip Tie Removal

Frenectomies and tethered tissue therapies correct tongue and lip ties that can restrict swallowing, breathing and chewing. Persistent tooth gaps, even after braces, lip drape issues and speech impairment can all be associated with lip and tongue ties.

How To Treat Periodontitis (gum Disease)

Once your condition has progressed to periodontitis or gum disease, surgical intervention is often necessary to eliminate the deep pockets that develop between the teeth and gums. A deep or Periodontal cleaning of your gums to remove the plaque may be required. If pockets persist, they allow bacteria to grow, often leading to tooth loss. We may recommend a traditional or laser therapy to treat your Periodontitis. Traditional methods to treat gum disease involve contouring of the affected gum tissue and bone underneath.

Pathology/Biopsy

Oral biopsy and pathology focus on diagnosing and treating oral diseases, including oral cancer. Pathologists are involved in all areas of disease management, including research, diagnosis, examination and treatment.

Deep Cleaning or Scaling & Root Planning

Minimally invasive techniques are used to cover exposed roots and regenerate natural tissue. Grafting not only improves the beauty of your smile and protects roots but also reduces tooth sensitivity while slowing further recession and contributing to bone loss.

Deep Pocket Cleaning or Osseous Surgery

Osseous surgery is a gum disease treatment that reduces the pockets and plaque around your teeth. Periodontists use this procedure to treat moderate to severe periodontitis. The main goal of osseous surgery is to reduce the pockets around your teeth, so plaque and bacteria can’t hide there.

LANAP Therapy

You may be a candidate for LANAP®. LANAP® is the laser alternative to traditional periodontal surgery to treat gum disease. To minimize your discomfort and maximize effectiveness, we use the most advanced LANAP laser technology available. The PerioLase®laser delivers gentle pulses of light to effectively target and kill the damaging bacteria hidden between teeth and gums. While traditional scalpel surgery can non-selectively remove healthy gum tissue, LANAP focuses selectively on the diseased tissue, leaving healthy tissue unharmed. The result is a more relaxing experience with faster healing.

Benefits Of Laser Periodontal Dentistry To Treat Periodontitis (Lanap Therapy)
Laser therapy for Periodontitis or periodontal disease uses a precision dental laser to accurately target and remove harmful bacteria without causing damage to healthy gum tissue.

Fast Recovery
Laser therapy to treat Periodontitis or periodontal disease does not involve cutting, and there is little to no postoperative inflammation. With laser therapy, our patients experience a much faster healing period and often do not need pain medication.

Minimal Gum Recession
Gum recession, otherwise referred to as receding gums, shrinking gums, or pulling back gums, is commonly an unavoidable result of traditional surgery to treat periodontal disease because the scalpel cuts away at the gum line. Patients treated with laser therapy have minimal gun recession after treatment.

Protects Healthy Tissue
Laser periodontal surgery never harms healthy tissue, which means there is little to no gum recession.