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Preventive Care

Preventive Care

We're convinced that it's our responsibility to impart accurate knowledge and individualized training to each patient, enabling you to avoid functional trouble, decay and disease. So, we're big on preventive measures…even including nutritional counseling with your initial exam.

Our preventive services include:

  • Cleaning/Hygiene
  • Regular Checkups
  • Dental Sealants
  • One-on-One Patient Education
  • Nightguards for Bruxism & TMD
  • Athletic Mouth guards
  • Breath Treatment
Restorative Care

Restorative Care

When it comes to correcting troubled areas, perfection is our standard. With today's advanced materials and methods, there's no reason why we can't restore the health, strength, and beauty of your smile. Plus, our precision color system, expert lab technicians, and broad base of experience allow us to create solutions that look perfectly natural, while lasting for a long time.

Our restorative services include:

  • Tooth-Colored Fillings
  • Porcelain Veneers/Laminates
  • Whitening
  • Bonding
  • All-Ceramic Crowns, Onlays & Inlays
  • Bridges
  • Dentures & Partial Dentures
  • Dental Implant Restorations
  • Root Canals
Gum Care

Gum Care

We're extremely vigilant when it comes to protecting your periodontal health because we realize that gum health is the absolute foundation of your entire oral health system. That's why we methodically probe, examine and record the health status of every section of your gums, at every visit.

Our Gum Care Services include:

  • Charting & Diagnostic Services
  • Detailed oral hygiene instruction
  • Non-Surgical In-Office Therapy
  • Prophy Jet and/or hand scaling
  • Nitrous Oxide available for hygiene appointments
Sedation: Helping You Relax

Sedation: Helping You Relax

Are you in desperate need of dental care, but too afraid to go to the dentist? Are you facing extensive treatment which you cannot fathom without being "out"? You are not alone. For our patients who need that extra help to relax, we offer oral sedation.

How it works:

Beyond creating an optimal environment for you, sedation dentistry allows us to complete multiple treatments in one appointment. You can relax while we improve your smile.

Technology

Technology

If you're like most of our patients, you'll be amazed at how non-invasive and relaxing your visits can be…simply due to our careful application of today's latest equipment and advances.

Currently, our technological investments include:

  • Cerec
  • WaterLase iPlus
  • Microscope
  • Digital radiography
  • Intra-Oral Camera: so you can see what we see
  • Treatment Magnification Loops: what we see is what we treat
  • Patient Comfort Measures: patient suite
  • State-of-the-Art Sterilization Center
  • Our lab work is done under microscopes to insure excellent attention to detail
WaterLase Dentistry

WaterLase Dentistry

Waterlase dentistry is one of the most advanced dental treatments today. Waterlase uses a patented technology that combines focused light energy with a stream of water for a highly precise, exceptionally gentle dental experience. Waterlase allows your dentist to perform a wide range of procedures with benefits including:

  • Faster healing time and less trauma to teeth and gums.
  • Making dental care a more relaxing experience for you.
  • Less anesthetic for most procedures.
  • Treating dental needs in more than one part of the mouth in one visit.
Crowns

Crowns

If you're self-conscious about your smile due to cracked, broken, decayed or worn teeth, we can bring back your healthy, natural-looking smile with crowns. A filling can restore a small defect in a tooth, but a crown is the most durable, strongest way to restore a tooth with extensive damage for the long term. With all the materials and techniques modern dentistry has to offer, crowns can be totally natural looking.

Additional benefits of crowns are correcting bite problems, closing spaces between teeth, changing the angulation of teeth, and they can be used to replace missing teeth permanently, as part of a bridge, or over an implant.

Implants Restoring A Solid Foundation

Implants Restoring A Solid Foundation

When people lose permanent teeth due to accident, injury, disease or extraction, dental implants can be a secure, functional replacement option. They're superior to many other choices because they actually restore comfort and appearance, yet remain functional for the long run.

  • Permanent tooth restoration.
  • Ability to eat and speak without loose dentures.
  • Saves bone and surrounding teeth.
  • No need for fixed or removable appliances.
  • No more embarrassing gaps in your smile.
TMJ Disorder

TMJ Disorder

The jaw joint is located just in front of each ear. It is a complex joint, and has many muscles controlling it. Many people experience severe pain in and around the joint for a number of reasons. The pain can be sharp right in the area of the joint, or it may feel like an earache. It may be persistent, and often severe, headaches result. People with TMJ problems may also experience muscles spasms in the neck, back or shoulders.

A bad bite, or persistent grinding or clenching of teeth can cause TMJ. Grinding and clenching seems to be related to stress. Correcting a poor bite and reducing stress in our lives would be ideal options, however we often need relief immediately. Basically grinding, clenching and a bad bite cause the muscles that control the jaw to be overworked, they get fatigued and go into spasm. That is when the pain begins. An appliance can be made to wear over the teeth that will allow the muscles to rest and reduce the symptoms. Various medications can also help reduce the pain, as well as massage of the muscles, moist heat, and even physical therapy can help.

If you experience any of the above symptoms, it is not wise to ignore them, or attempt to cope with them on your own. It can get worse, without warning, and permanent damage to the joint can result, which may require surgery. The best thing to do is call our office immediately to be evaluated and get you on the road to recovery and relief.

Help For Jaw & Bite Problems

Help For Jaw & Bite Problems

Regardless of the reason, a poor bite and frequent grinding and/or clenching can cause serious damage and pain to teeth, jawbone and the muscles and joints controlling the jaw. Many people suffer from headaches, head and neck muscle pain as well as ear pain, including popping and clicking noises near the ear when they open or close the mouth.

The jaw muscles never get a chance to rest. They are overworked, fatigued and go into spasm. Some people can wear their teeth right down to the gum line, some will experience loose teeth, and some will have pain in or near the ear and possible radiating over the head and neck. The muscles need a chance to rest. A new device, known as an NTI-tss, can provide rest for the muscles and thus alleviate all the above symptoms. It is quicker to fabricate than previous appliances used for these problems, and it has been shown to give more complete relief. It is so effective the FDA has approved it for reduction of pain for migraine headache sufferers. It is custom fitted to you. It also helps break the cycle of grinding or clenching, which other appliances used in the past did not do.

LOCATION

818 18th ST. N.W. Suite 700 Washington DC 20006

202-659-8020