Technology

Our team uses intra-oral cameras to improve and enhance your dental experience. These state-of-the-art pen-shaped instruments allow us to provide you more direct involvement and interaction with your dental health and make you more comfortable before, during and after treatment.

Intra-oral cameras capture high-quality images that are instantly transmitted to a screen directly above your treatment chair. Our team uses these cameras to target specific areas of your teeth and gums in order to highlight potential or existing problems and explain the procedure best-suited to treat them. This method allows you to better visualize the problem spots in your teeth and can help to ease your fears or worries about an upcoming treatment.

We use this technology to educate our patients on the state of their own oral health and to make dental hygiene and professional treatment recommendations. Intra-oral cameras are safe to use and help to correct any potential miscommunications that may exist between our team and our patients.

To learn more about intra-oral cameras, or to schedule an appointment, contact us today.

Our team uses digital X-rays as a safer and more accurate alternative to traditional film X-ray technology.

Digital computerized X-rays provide us with more comprehensive pictures of your teeth and gums and make it easier to determine the best treatment options for you. These images give us the capability to focus in on particular segments or problem areas of your mouth, making it easier to properly diagnose and treat dental problems before they become bigger and more harmful.   

Images of your teeth are taken with a small, unobtrusive sensor and are sent directly to our computer system, allowing us to more efficiently store your dental history and access it in the future. This is important and invaluable because it allows us to instantly compare images from any point in your dental history. With this information we can now analyze and determine both the progress of and the potential for future dental problems on a moment’s notice.   

Our digital X-ray system also provides patients with 70 percent less radiation exposure than standard film radiography. This technology eliminates the need for second X-ray attempts because of its simplicity, accuracy and efficiency. After an image is captured it is immediately transmitted to our computer. Our team can then enhance and manipulate the image to better view the desired area without the need for another attempt. This process not only expedites the X-ray procedure, but also saves valuable time of developing the film X-rays.

For more information on digital computerized X-rays, or to schedule an appointment, contact us today.

Our team uses digital scanning/impressioning, which makes it possible for the dentist to map their patient's oral cavity. A digital scanner consists of a wand-like device that attaches to a cord on a computer. The computer has scanner software that provides the final result of the dental scan.

Why would we use this? For almost anything that's made to custom fit your mouth, we need impressions of your teeth/oral cavity to match your size and shape. Examples are crowns, bridges, bite guards, sleep appliances, veneers, etc.  This technology eliminates the need for taking an impression the old-fashioned way with that gooey "alginate" material. Not everything is a candidate for digital scanning, but thankfully most things are. Easy-peasy!

To learn more about digital scanning, or to schedule an appointment, contact us today.