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Esthetic/Restorative Options
Our style of care gives you many reasons to smile! We make sure
we understand your needs and concerns, and you understand our
care recommendations before we begin treatment. Review all the
exciting health restoring and appearance-enhancing options we
provide. Then call or email us to schedule a confidential consultation.
Invisalign - Invisible braces
Comprehensive Esthetic Makeovers
– creating lasting beauty and confident smiles
Complete Oral Rejuvenation –
achieving revitalized health, no matter the condition of a smile
Porcelain Veneers – gaps closed,
straightening smiles in a few visits
Smile Contouring/Composite Bonding –
chipped teeth restored, gaps closed, teeth lengthened
Porcelain Crowns – restoring broken,
worn, missing teeth
Smile Whitening – professional,
safe, effective, exciting
White Fillings – healthfully, transforming
dull, gray metal fillings
Dental Implants – lifelike tooth
replacements rather than bridges, partials or full dentures
Esthetic Gum Contouring – creating
the perfect gum line
Ceramic Onlays – preserving more of
your natural teeth
Invisalign
An exciting new way to straighten your teeth without braces,
this technology straightens your teeth with a series of clear,
customized, removable aligners. The aligner is a thin piece of
medical grade plastic that fits over teeth like a glove would
fit on a hand. Hardly anyone can tell you’re going through
treatment and because the aligners are removable, you can eat
whatever you want during treatment.
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Comprehensive Esthetic
Makeovers
A smile makeover can be similar to complete rehabilitation; it
can involve many of the same restorative and esthetic techniques.
However, the patient has few if any significant health or tooth
loss issues.
Patients may have crowded, crooked or short teeth or spaces between
many teeth. Congenital defects can mean that teeth were underdeveloped
or disfigured in appearance. Tetracycline medicine could have
darkened and stained an entire smile.
Because this is a makeover we are very conscious about how each
tooth restoration will affect the other. Replacing the front six
or eight might make the most sense from an obvious esthetic viewpoint
- what most people will see when you smile - but only enhancing
a few front teeth can mean those new teeth might be prone to break
or chip or cause painful jaw tension.
Therefore, we might restoratively (and esthetically) enhance many
other teeth in the mouth. Since quality and long-term patient
satisfaction is our trademark, it is difficult to proceed unless
the patient approves a comprehensive makeover when warranted.
Not every patient needs a makeover but we want to make sure each
patient gets the care they deserve.
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Complete Smile Rejuvenation
There are many reasons why one might need a full dental reconstruction.
For many people, they have taken as good care of their mouths
as they could. However, they leave a history of always needing
dental care. Now they have a mouth full of restorations that have
been done over many years and are no longer stable.
Periodontal disease destroys supporting bone, causing the imminent
loss of teeth or recurrent decay on multiple crowns and bridges.
Maybe occlusal (how the teeth come together) or bite problems
have caused excessive wear on the natural teeth and has aggravated
the TM jaw joint. An auto accident or other traumatic insult may
be the cause.
All of these conditions could warrant a rehabilitation of the
entire mouth. Properly diagnosed, planned and executed this type
of dentistry has been able to return patients to a comfortable,
functional, stable oral health. Of course, the patient will have
a picture perfect smile, too.
We avoid stopgap measures in almost every case because we believe
patients are best served by taking advantage of our comprehensive
expertise first. If you are ready for a complete solution, you
have come to the right place.
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Porcelain Veneers
Porcelain veneers are custom designed, thin pieces of porcelain
that are molecularly bonded to your natural teeth. They are used
to restore chipped teeth, straighten smiles, transform stained
teeth, and close gaps between teeth.
Veneers can be perfectly color matched to adjacent natural teeth
and are very natural looking and strong. They can dramatically
improve your smile. They are a long-term solution.
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Smile Contouring • Bonding
Bonding resin is artistically applied layer-by-layer and fuses
to your teeth and creates a strong and durable bond, almost like
your natural enamel. Spaces in your smile can be eliminated and
your teeth lengthened with this contouring material.
It comes in natural shades and shades for those who want a bright
white smile. Usually minimal removal of tooth structure is required.
In as little as one visit you can have a wonderful new smile.
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Porcelain Crowns
For a long-lasting, beautiful smile, porcelain crowns may be the
answer. Using the CEREC 3 – one visit, computerized crown
preparation – Dr. Veraghen perfectly mills the crown to
his exacting specifications. CEREC is especially convenient for
those people who are not in need of comprehensive reconstruction.
If your overall oral health is good, and only need one to a few
teeth restored, there is no need for doing impressions of your
teeth or to wear temporary restorations while an outside lab crafts
your restorations.
After the crown is prepared, Dr. Veraghen permanently and healthfully
bonds it in place. The color is perfectly matched to adjacent
teeth. Even you will have trouble discerning which tooth has been
restored.
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Smile Whitening
If your perfect smile includes bright, white teeth, we have the
professional methods to give you the smile you want. Teeth stained
from foods, beverages or tobacco use can be effectively whitened
with our dentist-approved whitening system.
We will make a form-fitted whitening tray to hold the whitening
agent that you wear at night or during the day at home. The
results are amazingly bright and can transform a discolored
smile in a couple of weeks.
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White Fillings
In the past, when an old filling wore out, or decay was discovered
beneath it, your only option was to get another metal filling.
This often meant further damage of the natural tooth to place
an even larger filling. Composite bonding material works at the
molecular level. “Silver fillings” are a blunt, unforgiving
material that expands and contracts, which often causes teeth
to crack, split and break.
Composite bonding can replace dark silver fillings and make your
teeth look natural once again.
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Dental Implants • Implant
Restoration
Many patients have been fitted with dentures due to the loss of
a tooth, many or all teeth. Implants can eliminate uncomfortable
full or partial dentures and give you the confident smile that
you have always wanted. They feel natural, look natural and are
as easy to take care of as your own teeth.
This two-step process involves a placing the "post"
of the implant in the jawbone. Temporary restorations are put
in place at this point so no one knows you are getting dental
treatment. After the implant is secure, we will create a crown
or bridge that is fitted to the implant post. You are then able
to smile with confidence again, knowing you look your very best.
Eat, chew and experience life as you would with a natural smile.
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Esthetic Gum Contouring •
the perfect gum line
Changing a gummy smile can change your outlook. Your gum tissue
can make your teeth look short. Gum tissue can cover more of your
smile than is necessary to protect it. Gum tissue contouring can
solve these smile inconsistencies.
Gum contouring can also fill gaps in your gum line that can cause
your teeth to look too long. It is also performed during other
more complex smile cases where dental implants and bridges are
used, or when oral trauma has occurred.
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Ceramic Onlays
Years ago, when people went to the dentist to get a cavity repaired
they were left with dark, ugly, metal (silver) fillings. Ceramic
onlays eliminate the unsightly metal fillings that most dentists
used in the past. The porcelain will brighten a smile immensely.
They also help to conserve and preserve your natural teeth, achieving
optimum health. Patients will regain their self-confidence, knowing
those dark fillings will no longer shadow their smile.
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Advanced Dentistry
Esthetic/Restorative Options: Combining
Health & Beauty
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Gentle, Friendly, Effective
Comprehensive Preventive Care:
Adults and Children
Customized Care: Unique,
Complete Dentistry that Lasts
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