Dental Crowns and Bridges

Crowns and bridges and I have to say implants also. When you’re missing a tooth in a smile, it has an effect on one, how people look at you but also how the person that’s missing a tooth feels. And so, you know, often I’ve had, in the last two weeks I’ve had gentlemen that have told me, “I don’t smile” and taking their clinical photos is difficult because they won’t smile. And we get them into having teeth and filling those spaces or lengthening their teeth. And all of a sudden their wives are saying, “I can see your teeth” and they come back to the office and they’re smiling. So it’s amazing what we can do for somebody’s persona and their affect by just by giving them, filling in those spaces.Also it’s important to understand that healthy teeth contribute to a healthy system. You have to have healthy gums. If you have inflammation in your gums, then that has a negative impact on your whole system, it has a direct correlation with heart disease. So it’s important to keep everything nice and healthy and stable. So we’re looking at the whole system, the biologic system, the body and their health, and we’re also looking at the mind and the psychological system and the happiness that people can have when they have their teeth and they have their smile.

What we have in our office and not every office has this but what we do have in our office is an in-house lab so we can take a digital picture of your tooth. Once we get the old filling and decay out or broken tooth, we take it a digital picture, we build up what it’s going to look like, we mill it in our office. It’s the same that we would get if we sent it to a commercial lab like other offices that don’t have this. It’s the same material, it’s the same thing but in two hours you get it and you leave. There’s no plastic temporary that you walk around with for three weeks waiting for your your crown to come in.