General Dentistry

Modern dentistry offers a wide range of services to make sure your teeth stay healthy, function well and look great.

To help you to preserve your natural teeth as long as possible, ensure your oral health, and keep you looking and feeling great throughout life.

To preserve natural tooth and supporting structures as long as possible

To avoid extensive and expensive procedures

General dental procedures include

Cleanings & Oral Exams, to keep your teeth and gums healthy, and catch early signs of dental disease
Fillings, to restore decayed teeth-Tooth-Coloured Fillings, for a completely natural, healthy look
Tooth Decay Prevention, so you keep your natural teeth as long as possible
Extractions, to remove unhealthy teeth that cannot be saved
Crowns and bridges, to prolong tooth life

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Cleanings & Oral Exams

Keeping original tooth for life should be your goal
You keep them by regular maintenance at home and routine visit to dental office.
To keep your tooth and gums healthy detecting problems and treating them is the most important
You need regular comprehensive oral examinations at dentist office so that you can catch early signs of dental disease and prevent them.
to keep your teeth and gums healthy you may need regular leaning
(scaling) at dental office

Fillings

Filling is done in the beginning stages of dental decay They prevent further progress of decay; we need to remove the infected tooth structure and replace it with naturally looking materials so that we do not need any bigger procedures like root canal treatments Decay develops as a small and progress gradually, it takes usually few years to reach root canal stage, you can prevent if you detect it early and treat it.

Do I need fillings

Dental decays are detected when we do routine cheek up

When you experience-

small hole in your tooth
Food getting struct on the tooth or in between tooth
You notice black/brown discoloration on tooth surface
You notice sensitivity to cold or hot

Types of Fillings

Metal Fillings

Amalgam

The classic “silver” filling in use for more than a century, dental amalgam is actually an alloy made up of mercury, silver, tin, and copper. The mercury combines with the other metals in the amalgam to make it stable and safe. These fillings are strong and inexpensive, but also quite noticeable. They also require relatively more tooth preparation (drilling) than other types.

Tooth-Coloured Fillings

Composite

A popular choice for those who don’t want their fillings to show, composite is a mixture of plastic and glass, which actually bonds to the rest of the tooth. Composites are more expensive than amalgam fillings, and the newer materials can hold up almost as long. Less drilling of the tooth is necessary when placing composite as compared to amalgam.

Glass Ionomer

Made of acrylic and glass powders, these inexpensive, translucent fillings have the advantages of blending in pretty well with natural tooth colour and releasing small amounts of fluoride to help prevent decay. They generally don’t last as long as other restorative materials.

Steps involved-procedure

There are a variety of materials used to fill teeth these days, but the process of filling a tooth is similar regardless. The first step is a clinical exam of the tooth with x-rays, to determine the extent of the decay. Then the decayed area of the tooth is removed, usually with a handheld instrument such as a dental drill. your tooth may need to be anesthetized first, so you won’t feel any discomfort. If you normally feel nervous about receiving numbing injections, After removing the decay fully, the remaining tooth structure cleaned and treated filled with choice filling material based on requirements and strength and location we will choose and help you with materials needed for your tooth

Precautions

Once filling is done, there will be few restrictions to eating and drinking

Post procedure instructions will be given and need to fallow them completely for long term durability of your filling

Some sensitivity to hot and cold is normal in the first couple of weeks after getting a tooth filled. If it persists beyond that, or you have any actual pain when biting, it could signal that an adjustment to your filling needs to be made.

The numbness caused by your local anaesthesia should wear off within a couple of hours. Until then, it’s best to avoid drinking hot or cold liquids and eating on the side of your mouth with the new filling.

Continue to brush and floss as normal every day, and visit the dental office at least twice per year for your regular check-ups and cleanings.

Remember, tooth decay is a very preventable disease; with good oral hygiene and professional care, you can make your most recent cavity your last!

Tooth Decay Prevention

To you keep your natural teeth as long as possible, we need to prevent certain conditions developing in your oral cavity

To prevent tooth decay

Topical fluoride application
Pit and fissure sealants

As all of us know fluoride prevents tooth decay and makes your tooth stronger.

If you are not sure about drinking fluoridated water or not. its topical fluoride application at dental office regularly can prevent dental decay.

Dentist applies fluoride on all surfaces of tooth and leave it for 15 min undisturbed. You need to fallow few restrictions after the procedure.

When the tooth growing and erupting, some tooth has deep groves and fissures.

Food can getstuck in these groves and fissures, can lead to dental decay. Which can be prevented by sealing of deep grooves and fissures early without any drilling just after cleaning.

You need regular fallow up and maintenance instructions need to be fallowed

Extractions

Sometimes we need to remove unhealthy teeth that cannot be saved, so that we can prevent spreading of disease to another tooth. A tooth extraction involves the removal of the entire tooth or the root of the tooth with the least amount of damage to the structures adjacent to the tooth.

Wisdom tooth removal

More than half of people have some issue or other with their wisdom tooth in their life time, usually there is mismatch between the teeth’s size and the jaw’s size. Smaller jaw bones coupled with bigger 3rd molar complicated the issue Most of the times they do no erupt fully or if they come out, they will be in odd position, which will be leading to food accumulation and dental decay You get this trouble usually around 18 years of age and above When wisdom teeth are impacted, there is pain associated with it Most common treatment will be removal of teeth. Removal of wisdom tooth has to be done by experienced specialist and has more restrictions after removal

Teeth Whitening

It is possible to lighten the natural colour of teeth in a very effective way without removing or damaging any of the tooth surface by using a procedure called Tooth Whitening.

It may not completely change the existing shade of the tooth, but it can lighten its appearance.