High-Quality Restorative Dentistry in Mt. Vernon, WA
Your teeth may become damaged due to injury, or may simply need to be repaired as you age. Our dentist provides restorative dentistry to help you regain a healthy, fully functional, and beautiful smile if your teeth have been lost or have become damaged. Each treatment is custom-designed to meet your unique needs so that you can enjoy a healthy smile for years to come.
If you are missing a tooth or several teeth in a row, a dental bridge may be the solution for you. We offer bridges to close the gaps in your smile. This will give you back a proper bite and a beautiful smile so that you can once again feel confident in chewing, and speaking; and in sharing your smile with others.
If you are missing one tooth or multiple teeth in a row, we may recommend a dental bridge to restore your smile. A bridge is a fixed dental restoration, meaning it is non-removable. The dental bridge is anchored in place through the use of two dental crowns, which are custom made to fit your smile and are placed on the teeth or dental implants next to the space left by the missing tooth. These crowns hold the artificial tooth in place to restore your smile, ensuring that your restoration will not easily shift or come loose. It typically requires only two visits to our practice to complete the dental bridge. Dental bridges are designed to last for many years and to restore the function, beauty, and health of your smile.
Myobrace uses specialized appliances to move the teeth into their proper positions. These appliances are worn overnight while the patient is asleep, as well as for a few hours each day as directed. Our dentist will also provide exercises to encourage proper tooth movement and to improve breathing, muscle function, and our dentist may recommend a dental bridge to improve your smile by:
- Restoring your ability to speak, eat, and chew as normal
- Alleviating excess stress on the bite
- Improving the shape and volume of your face
- Replacing an unwanted removable partial denture
- Preventing the remaining natural teeth from moving out of position
- Enhancing the appearance of your smile
We will help you determine whether a custom dental bridge is the right choice for restoring your smile after tooth loss. For more information, please call or visit us today.
Implants are the ideal solution for replacing your teeth. Dental implants are designed to mimic your natural tooth function, stimulate bone tissue to ensure a stable foundation, and give you permanent replacements for your missing teeth.
Dentures are removable oral appliances used to replace multiple missing teeth. If you are missing several teeth or all of your teeth, dentures might be just what you need to restore the function, beauty, and health of your smile. There are two kinds of dentures: complete dentures and partial dentures.
Inlays and onlays are dental restorations that are a good alternative to full coverage crowns. Inlays and onlays are also known as indirect fillings that offer a longer lasting, better fitting, reparative solution to tooth decay, beneficial both aesthetically and functionally. Although inlays and onlays are an alternative to traditional dental fillings, the two are extremely different:
Traditional Dental Fillings – are molded into place within the mouth during a dental visit until the desired bite and a natural shape is achieved.
Inlays and Onlays – are fabricated indirectly in a dental lab and then fitted and bonded during a second dental appointment.
A crown does a better job at protecting a tooth from fracturing than a filling does. So, if there’s a lot of tooth structure missing or a large filling is being removed or there are inherent fracture lines or cracks in a tooth, a crown or an “onlay” is a much better option.
You might’ve been told you need a crown. Why not a filling instead? A crown does a better job at protecting a tooth from fracturing than a filling does. So, if there’s a lot of tooth structure missing or a large filling is being removed or there are inherent fracture lines or cracks in a tooth, a crown or an “onlay” is a much better option.
In this office, we believe it’s important to save as much of the tooth as possible. So if we need the extra strength that crowns provide and the tooth still has a lot of enamel remaining, rather than do a “full” standard crown, we’ll take advantage of bonding technology and do “onlay” crowns. We prefer onlays: compared to a standard crown, onlays are more conservative. And conservation of tooth structure is always a good thing. Whichever one we make, they’re metal-free, made from all-ceramic porcelain.
Why is that important? Because they can be much more natural-looking! And they’re extremely strong. Gone are the days where we needed to do gold! And besides, there is controversy regarding “galvanic” action with metal in the mouth.
Very few dental offices can do a crown from start to finish in one visit.
But we can because we have a CEREC machine.
For any of you that have had crowns made in the past, you remember the dentist preparing the teeth, taking a messy impression (hard for gaggers), making an ill-fitting “temporary” crown that you had to be extremely careful with (and most likely came off before your next crown-seating appointment), and then returned for the final seating of the crown. But not in this office! Instead of impressions, the prepared tooth is scanned with a camera. That information is transferred onto a computer software program where we design the crown (while you watch if you want to) and then a porcelain block is carved down to that shape with a CAD-CAM milling machine. Takes about 12-18 minutes. Amazing technology!
The CEREC computer allows you to get your treatment done start-to-finish in one day. No more frustration regarding temporary crowns, no more extra visits to the dental office to reseat these temporaries, no more additional time taken away from work (or your life) to deal with these issues. And you’re numb through the seating of the crown. No more misery to seat a crown without anesthetic or going thru the anxiety of getting numb a second time. And there’s less opportunity and time for bacteria to get inside these prepped teeth, which we think minimizes the need for root canals. Overall, we think it’s healthier to do this procedure from start to finish in one day. The CEREC machine…my best friend in dentistry.
When you develop a cavity or experience other minor tooth damage, our dentist can provide you with a dental filling to repair the damage and restore your smile. Our dental fillings are made of BPA-free composite material, meaning that they are designed to blend in with your natural tooth color to provide a beautiful, safe, and long-lasting solution for your oral health needs.