Frequently Asked Questions
- How to brush your teeth?
- How to floss?
- What is Sealants?
- What is a Filling?
- What is an Onlay?
- What is a Crown?
- What is a Root Canal?
- Does a root canal treated tooth needed to be crowned?
1 Place the bristles at a 45 degree angle against the gumline. Move the brush in a small, gentle circular motion.
2 Brush the outer surfaces of each upper and lower tooth and the inside surfaces of all teeth. Brush the chewing surfaces of the teeth.
3 Tilt the brush vertically and make several gentle up and down strokes with the front part of the brush to clean the inside surfaces of the front teeth.
Proper brushing is key to avoiding cavities and gum disease. We’ll show you the correct technique.
Take about 18 inches of floss and wrap it around your middle fingers.
Sealant is very important preventive services that a parent can pick for their children.
Sealant seals deep grooves of newly developed molars and prevent getting decay on the newly erupted molars, which are very
hard for your kids to keep it clean. Therefore we ask our parent to actively participate in their kids’ oral hygiene routine,
by helping them to reach hard to reach area.
Tooth Color fillings: Tooth color filling offers many advantages over traditional silver filling. Tooth color
filling requires minimal preparation of the tooth to restore tooth to healthy status.
Tooth Color Inlay/Onlay: Inlay and onlay are very similar. We use to restore the teeth that are grossly decay,
fractured or have large existing worn out fillings. Inlay/onlay offers great advantage over the crown it helps us preserve as much
healthy tooth structure as possible. With inlay and onlay, we prepare affected tooth structure and then we use our state of the art,
CEREC to capture the digital impression of the tooth and we let the computer design your restoration. The design of your restoration
is fabricated based on your remaining tooth structure hence your restoration is biogeneric design. Then restorations are fabricated in the office in
the state of art milling unit, which takes up to 4-7 minutes to fabricate your restoration. Once the restoration is fabricated they
are check for fit then bonded to your tooth. Since the tooth color restoration has chameleon effect makes it very esthetic
restorative choice.
Crown: We use crowns to help restore fracture tooth, grossly decay tooth with weakened cusps. There many types of crowns. We provide following three since they are the best for our patients mouth without creating any allergic reactions. One is all ceramic crowns, which are very esthetic and more natural looking. Other is Porcelain fused to high noble metal crowns, which are tooth color but not more natural looking, but sometimes your mouth condition will only allow us to place this crown, all metal crown, which is basically (high noble metal) gold crown. Gold crown has been used in dentistry for many years and has provided an excellent restorative material. It wears almost same as enamel and kind to the surrounding tissue, but it is not esthetic restorative option. We use this crown when your oral health calls for it, sometime we do not options.
Root canal: When nerve of tooth is infected, we perform root canal to remove the infected nerve. Nerves can get infected in many ways;
some of them are gross decay, fracture or trauma to the tooth. Main purpose of removing infected nerve is to avoid an abscess in
mouth which can affect your entire body.
Does a root canal treated tooth needed to be crowned?
Yes, in most of the cases. this will prevent coronal leakage and prevent the failure of root canal. the crowing of the tooth seal the root
canal system and maintain the integrity of root canal system. there are some cases where a bonded filling will suffice the role.
