Full Mouth Restoration corrects imperfections in bite position and enhances the appearance of your smile. Anyone with short, worn teeth or those that are chipped and broken throughout the mouth is usually a good candidate for full mouth restoration. Full mouth restoration can give you the natural, beautiful smile you want. The first step is that a healthy dental foundation must be established (gums). Then with the skill and care of Gentle Dental, we will perform the full mouth restoration with a combination of treatments, such as porcelain veneers, dental bonding, and tooth whitening, dental implants or porcelain crowns.

Not only will you have a proper bite, but also you will no longer wake up with sore jaw muscles or headaches and, of course, you will have your beautiful healthy smile as a result of your full mouth restoration in one of our New York offices

Implant dentistry offers patients with missing teeth a state-of-the-art option for tooth replacement. Dental implants are titanium posts that are surgically placed in the jawbone were teeth are missing. The titanium "root" is topped with a natural-looking artificial tooth for permanent tooth replacement that is strong, functional and beautiful.

Implant dentistry has become the preferred method for tooth replacement for many reasons. Dental implants do no depend on your surrounding teeth for support, and they look and function much like normal teeth. The Dental Implants prevent the surrounding teeth from shifting out of place, and prevents bone loss.

Our Gentle Dental Doctors will determine if you are a good candidate for dental implants and will use their extensive training, expertise and care to create a personalized treatment plan for tooth replacement.

Often referred to as false teeth, dentures are necessary when you have all of your upper or lower teeth removed. Complete dentures replace both top and bottom teeth while partial dentures can either are just the upper or lower teeth.

Dentures are constructed using flesh colored plastic base material. Natural looking teeth are inserted into the base material. Dentures allow you to maintain your smile and eat normally.

Many of us have experienced cavities, which call for the removal of the decay and to fill in the area that was removed in order to prevent further decay and strengthen the affected tooth. There have been many advances in the material used to fill in cavities. Many people still have malgam or gold filling restorations. Now there are composite resin dental fillings, which are still durable but unlike amalgam or gold fillings, the resin dental fillings blend in with the natural coloring of your teeth and are a great option for keeping your smile beautiful.

In an effort to maintain healthy and attractive teeth, the earliest possible detection of dental cavities is essential. Sometimes cavities are hidden below an intact tooth surface and are often not detected by x-rays. With the DIAGNOdentô, a laser used in the diagnosis and detection of dental cavities, even the smallest of cavities are detected, enabling you to protect and preserve tooth structure.

The Waterlase MDô is a revolutionary dental device that uses a combination of laser energy and water to perform many traditional dental procedures usually without the need for anesthetic injections. By enabling a less invasive and precise form of treatment that preserves tooth structure, and eliminating the use of injections and the whining of the dental drill, the Waterlase MDô transforms the dental experience for both adults and children!

The EZlaseô is a diode laser that enables us to perform many periodontal procedures previously only treatable by traditional periodontal surgery. The EZlaseô can achieve similar results to traditional periodontal surgery while being much less invasive. It causes minimal if any discomfort and a much faster healing time, without the need for stitches. This diode laser is also excellent for plastic surgical correction of gum scarring caused by previous periodontal surgical procedures, and also for the significant reduction in healing time associated with cold sores and apthus ulcers of the lips and mouth.

Would you like to see how you would look with a new smile? Try a Trial Smile! A Trial Smile at New York Impressive Smile Design is different from computer imaging. Impressions of the teeth and jaws are taken and models are fabricated. A careful evaluation of your oral health, including teeth, gums, temporomandibular joint, and bite are performed. Specific aesthetic needs and expectations are addressed in consultation with Dr. Planzos and our dental laboratory. Intraoral and extraoral photographs are taken. All the information is gathered and a meticulously detailed wax up is then fabricated, depicting the look of the final result. A temporary acrylic mold is created which you can wear over your teeth and evaluate your new smile in terms of aesthetics and function. The Trial Smile can be modified several times if necessary and it will ultimately be used as a blue-print for the final restoration. Once treatment is accepted, temporaries are made exactly mimicking the Trial Smile, which will allow you to test your new smile under real life conditions to determine if it meets your expectations.

For the benefit of our patients, we have purchased the Kodak Digital Radiography system for both intraoral and panoramic x-rays, eliminating the use of film. The major advantage to using digital technology as compared to film-based x-rays is that the patient exposure time (and therefore radiation dose) can be markedly reduced while providing superior image quality. In addition, harmful chemical processing is not necessary and images can be transmitted electronically for patient consults or insurance claims, eliminating the need for making film copies.

The clear alternative to traditional braces, effectively moves teeth using a series of clear, removable aligners which are custom-molded to fit your teeth and create an amazing new smile. InvisalignÆ gets the patient involved in their treatment by providing a ClincheckÆ which is a virtual representation of how your teeth will look at the end of treatment. The doctor and patient get to review the intended final result and make changes if necessary.

Less is more! By practicing Minimally Invasive Dentistry, we use the latest science and state of the art equipment to do the least possible to make your teeth healthy. Lasers, instead of dental drills, and magnification allow us to treat conservatively. Bonding technology and talented dental ceramists facilitate the use of porcelain or composite resin restoration of only the fractured or worn parts of teeth. This is in sharp contrast to the extensive removal of natural tooth structure associated with traditional restorative methods.

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Financial Arrangements

Making Your New Smile Affordable

Like other cosmetic procedures, many esthetic dentistry procedures are not covered by insurance.

In an effort to make the best come affordable:

*We accept all major credit cards, Visa, Mastercard, Discover and America Express.

* If payments need to be spread out we are pleased to offer outside finance through "Care Credit".

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The bonding procedure in dentistry utilizes a tooth-colored composite resin and is used for a variety of structural as well as cosmetic purposes. By using dental composite resin bonding, chipped or broken teeth can be restored, fill in gaps, and reshape your smile.

The bonding process involves the surface of the tooth being roughened and a conditioning liquid applied. This helps the bonding material adhere to the tooth. The resin is then applied, molded and smoothed to the desired shape. After the material is hardened with ultraviolet light or laser, your dentist will further shape, and polish it to mimic the natural surface of the tooth- including color, shape, and size of your natural tooth enamel- improving the appearance of teeth with superficial damage and unsightly imperfections.

Dental veneers (sometimes called porcelain veneers or dental porcelain laminates) are very thin, custom-made shells of tooth-colored materials, designed to cover the front surface of teeth to improve your smile. These shells are bonded to the front of the teeth changing color, shape, size or length.

Dental veneers can be made from porcelain or from resin composite materials. Porcelain veneers resist stains better than resin and better mimic the light reflecting properties of natural teeth.

Laminates are routinely used to fix discolored teeth, worn down teeth, broken or shipped teeth, misaligned, uneven or irregularly shaped teeth and teeth with gaps between them.

A dental implant is an artificial tooth root replacement and is used to support restorations that resemble a tooth or a group of teeth. There are several types of dental implants; the most widely used being the Osseo integrated implant, where titanium screw (resembling a tooth root is fused into bone when osteoblasts grow on and into the rough surface of the implanted titanium. This forms a structural and functional connection between the living bone and the implant.

Implant surgery is typically performed as an outpatient procedure under general anesthesia or local anesthesia and can take several visits over time.

A crown is a dental restoration that covers your entire tooth. It used to be that any crown had to have some metal in it for strength. Today, we can make them out of all porcelain, meaning they look very natural.

Typically, the dental crown procedure is complete in two stages. During the first state, your dentist will remove portions of your natural tooth?s structure to accommodate the dental crown. An impression is made and sent to the lab, where your dental crown is created. A temporary crown might be placed between visits to ensure the most natural look and feel. When you return to the dentist, your new custom dental crown is securely bonded in place. Non-Prep Veneers

Root Canals are the commonly used term for the main canals within the dentin of the tooth. These are part of the natural cavity within a tooth that consists of the dental pulp chamber, the main canals, and sometimes more intricate anatomical branches that may connect the root canals to each other or to the root surface of the tooth.

When the pulp become infected due to a deep cavity or fracture that allows bacteria to seep in, it can die. Damaged or dead pulp causes pressure that cannot be relieved from inside the tooth. Pain in the tooth is commonly felt when biting, chewing and sensitivity to hot or cold.

A root canal is a treatment used to repair and save the infected or decayed tooth. During the procedure, the nerve and pulp is removed and the inside of the tooth is cleaned and sealed. A root canal typically involves three appointments.

The leading cause of tooth loss in adults is gum disease. The main cause of gum disease is plaque, bacteria that forms and attacks the gums surrounding the teeth and the bone supporting your teeth.

Gingivitis is the early stage of gum diseases. Your gums may be red, swollen and bleed easily. Untreated gingivitis can lead to more advanced stage of the disease called periodontitis.

Periodontitis occurs when plaque eventually spreads below the gum line and attacks the tissue and bone supporting the teeth. The gums begin to separate from the teeth, forming pockets where more bacteria can accumulate. If left untreated, these pockets deepen, and more and more tissue and bone is destroyed until the tooth becomes loose and requires extraction.

Only your dentist can tell if you have periodontitis with a periodontal exam. Periodontal Treatment requires short and long term strategies. A Gentle Dental doctor will consider your individual situation, and address your treatment options with you, including designing a home care program to maintain your ultimate goal of dental health. Gentle Dental utilizes dental lasers, the most advanced technology, as well as other treatments, to treat periodontal disease.