Crowns
Crowns (also known as Caps) offer a long-term solution for any tooth, which is badly decayed, heavily filled or unsightly. Crowns may cover and replace all or part of a tooth and are used to restore them to their natural shape, color and size. This not only helps appearance, but can also save a tooth that might otherwise be lost. Crowns are usually made of gold or ceramic, (or a combination of the two) which fit over and are bonded or cemented (glued) onto your tooth.

Bridges
Designed to replace a missing tooth or teeth, fixed bridges provide a natural-looking, non-removable replacement. Fixed bridges eliminate unsightly gaps by suspending a replacement between teeth on either side of the gap. These bridges have many advantages over removable dentures, including offering a more natural, esthetically pleasing replacement with easier maintenance and the ability to enjoy a wider variety of foods without encountering problems. In particular, patients gain a security in knowing the replacement teeth are not going to move around and fall out during a conversation or a meal. Bridges are custom designed in our on-site laboratory to match all proportions of your adjacent natural teeth. Porcelain is custom-colored and shaped to offer each patient a distinctive restoration.

Removable Partial Dentures
A removable partial denture is used when there are still natural teeth left. As with a bridge, the missing teeth are replaced by this type of denture using both the soft tissue ridge and teeth to hold them securely in place. This tooth replacement is removable by the patient, which makes cleaning easier.
The new teeth in the denture are made from plastic or porcelain (ceramic) materials and the foundation of the partial denture can be plastic or a combination of plastic and metal. Metal clasps are the most common method used to secure a partial denture; however, precision-made partial dentures (claspless) offer a better fit, function and favorable long-term prognosis. The partial denture can be made to fit the existing shape of your teeth or it may be necessary to alter your remaining teeth.
Removable dentures are less costly than non-removable solutions and can be an interim solution for many patients who later move on to dental implants or because of physical health or economic situations, but can also serve as a permanent solution for some.

Complete Dentures
A complete denture replaces all of the natural teeth in the upper and lower jaw, or both, sitting on the soft gum tissue of the mouth that covers the bone ridge. The design of this denture and position of the teeth will restore good speech and appearance. Several different procedures may be needed to ensure that your complete denture fits the shape of your mouth and provides the necessary support for the face. 
Over time, the gums and bones supporting the denture will shrink causing the denture to become loose. Periodic check-ups on the fit of your denture are necessary and, if required, the denture can be adjusted and refit.

Dental Implants
Dental Implants can provide an ideal long-term solution to missing teeth. Implants are man-made titanium fixtures that function similar to a tooth root.  They are placed into the jawbone and provide a secure anchor for replacement teeth without putting force onto the remaining natural teeth, as with a conventional denture or bridge. They have been proven to be safe with ADA approval and considerable research demonstrates their effectiveness. Implant-supported prostheses look and feel like your own natural teeth and may be used to replace a single missing tooth or a complete set of teeth.

Maxillofacial Prosthesis
Maxillofacial prosthetics are used when anatomical parts of the head and neck are not replaceable by living tissue, when recurrence of malignancy is likely, when radiotherapy is being administered, or when fragments of facial bones are severely displaced in a fracture. Maxillofacial prostheses are artfully crafted from silicone and synthetic materials and are indistinguishable from real skin. They are customized for each patient, down to the brown age spots found on many older patients.
While maxillofacial prosthetic treatment is not a substitute for plastic and reconstructive surgery, in certain circumstances it may be an alternative. Patients may not be good candidates for plastic surgery because of their advanced age, poor health, very large deformity, or poor blood supply to irradiated tissue.

A temporary prosthesis may cover a defect when plastic surgery repair requires many steps, and speech appliances may be used when surgery is considered non-advantageous for the closure of a cleft palate. Surgically reconstructed sites also require maxillofacial prosthetic treatment with or without implants.

Maxillofacial prosthetic rehabilitation has three main advantages: it requires little or no additional surgery, it can decrease hospital stay, and often the results are more esthetically pleasing and less invasive than plastic surgery.

Obturator Prosthesis
An Obturator prosthesis is created for a variety of purposes.  The three types of Obturator Prostheses include:

Surgical (a temporary prosthesis inserted during or immediately following surgical or traumatic loss of a portion or all of the tooth-supporting bone);

Interim (a prosthesis made following completion of the initial healing phase of surgery and replaces the surgical obturator);

Definitive (a prosthesis which artificially replaces part or all of the associated teeth lost due to surgery, trauma or congenital defects).

Cleft Palate Prosthesis
A prosthodontist can assist in treating patients with cleft lip and palate by creating a prosthesis which can improve speech and eating ability. Different prostheses include an appliance designed to assist the immediate post-surgery process of repairing a cleft palate, or a speech-aid prosthesis for improvement in the speech of cleft lip and palate patients.

Sleep Apnea Prosthesis
An adjustable device, which looks similar to an orthodontic retainer or athletic mouth guard, can be worn over the teeth while sleeping, to provide better airflow and prevent sleep apnea and/or snoring. This device is custom-made and is an accepted approach to conservative non-surgical treatment. Its relatively low cost and convenience make it an attractive alternative to more invasive options.

Bone Graft
A bone graft is a surgical procedure that replaces missing bone with material from the patient's own body or an artificial, synthetic, or natural substitute. The graft not only replaces missing bone, but also helps your body to regenerate its own lost bone. This new bone growth strengthens the grafted area by forming a bridge between your existing bone and the graft material. Over time your own newly formed bone will replace much of the grafted material.

Bone grafting is used for augmentation or replacement of the lost bone a patient may have suffered, which can be used later to support an implant, prosthesis or just to return the normal contour of the area back to ideal.

Congenital Deformities
The most frequent congenital dental deformity is a cleft (fissure) of the palate, lip or tooth-bearing ridge. Congenital dental deformities can cause varying degrees of severity from a slight malformation to more devastating conditions that can handicap an individual in many ways. Today, children and young adults with a distracting appearance due to congenital defects suffer psychosocial peer pressure, which may inhibit normal social interactions and can negatively impact academic performance. Fortunately, rehabilitation of the face of those afflicted with these conditions can be successful. Dental implants can be used to support non-removable teeth and bone grafting can fill in areas lacking sufficient bone to create natural-looking replacement teeth and an esthetically pleasing smile.

Tooth Whitening
Today, most people find that teeth that are generally whiter and brighter, look more attractive and more youthful. And a better-looking smile leads to more self-confidence because you know you are making a better impression. Patient-controlled tooth bleaching and porcelain veneers are two options we offer to provide you with the whiter teeth you desire.

Option 1- Bleaching is fast, easy, safe, effective and considerably inexpensive. To be a candidate for tooth bleaching, you need to have teeth that are basically acceptable in shape and alignment, without many fillings that show in the smile zone. Teeth that are generally yellow in color bleach better and faster than teeth that are generally gray in color, but almost all teeth can be improved by tooth bleaching.

With bleaching, however, you cannot pick the exact color you will get, nor can you make the colors of all your teeth match each other. Bleaching is also not a permanent solution and over a few years, the teeth can darken again; however, bleaching touch-ups can be done as often as you desire without damaging the teeth.

Option 2 - Porcelain veneers are fabricated by shaving just a millimeter off your teeth and placing a thin custom made shell or veneer of porcelain on your tooth. As a result, you can get the shade you want and the colors will be uniform and will not darken over time.











 

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